Professor of Psychiatry, Charité, Humboldt Universität, Berlin Birth date: 4th of February 1960 Work address: Department of Psychiatry of the Charité Charité – Universitätsmedizin BerlinCharité Campus Mitte Charitéplatz1 10117 Berlin Germany PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE: Research on neurobiological and sociocultural factors determining mental healthPROFESSIONAL POSITIONS, EDUCATION AND TRAINING: Professor of Psychiatry, Director and Chair Department of Psychiatry […]
Debora Ganz, Ph.D. graduated from Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology in 2015, where she received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology. Debora currently lives in Los Angeles, California, where she is working as a postdoctoral psychologist at UCLA TIES for Families. Debora Ganz’s past research has focused on family functioning and comorbid factors that contribute to […]
Malgorzata Dragan, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Poland. She works at the Department of Child Clinical Psychology and Family Disturbances. Malgorzata Dragan’s research is primarily focused on the co-morbidity between exposure to trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alcohol-use disorders. Her current interests focus on symptoms of […]
Jukkala T, Mäkinen IH. Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS), Södertörn University, 141 89, Huddinge, Sweden PURPOSE: Attitudes concerning the acceptability of suicide have been emphasized as being important for understanding why levels of suicide mortality vary in different societies across the world. While Russian suicide mortality levels are among the highest in the […]
Leo Sher, M.D. The World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) has created a new Task Force, “Treatment of Mental Disorders in General Medical Practice.” Robertas Bunevicius (Lithuania) is the Chair of this Task Force. Siegfried Kasper (Austria) is the Co-Chair. Florence Thibaut (France) is the Secretary of the Task Force. Members of the […]
Jacob M. Appel, M.D., J.D. The vast majority of physicians will encounter a patient who is unfit to drive an automobile as a result of cognitive impairments, untreated epilepsy, chronic intoxication or other underlying medical conditions. Whether providers are permitted to break confidentiality to report such patients to the authorities—and whether there are certain circumstances in […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Overweight and obesity have become a major public health problem in both developing and developed countries as they are related to a wide spectrum of diseases including diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancer and depression. Body Mass Index (BMI) is a simple index of weight-for-height that is commonly used to classify underweight, overweight and […]
María Dolores Braquehais, M.D., Ph.D. From animals to human beings, gathering enough possessions has been a way to survive in difficult periods (1,2). Before winter, a large number of species collect fruits and other foods in order to tolerate the hardest season. In evolutionary terms, collecting is an adaptive behavior. In fact, the food-hoarding paradigm […]
Priebe S, Bogic M, Ashcroft R, Franciskovic T, Galeazzi GM, Kucukalic A, Lecic-Tosevski D, Morina N, Popovski M, Roughton M, Schützwohl M, Ajdukovic D.Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Barts’ and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, UKSoc Sci Med. 2010 Oct 30. [Epub ahead of print] War experiences […]
Levent Tokucoglu (1) and A. Ender Altintoprak (2)(1) Alman Hospital, Diyarbakir, Turkey; (2) Ege University School of Medicine, Izmir, TurkeySuicidal Behavior in Alcohol and Drug Abuse and Dependence. Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2010, 540 pages. Tobacco, alcohol and illicit substance use continue to result in substantial morbidity and mortality rate and significant socio-economical […]
