Dainius Puras is the Head and Associate Professor of the Center of Child Psychiatry and Social Pediatrics in Vilnius University. He is also teaching public mental health and health policy in the Medical Faculty and in the Institute of International Relations and Policy Studies of Vilnius university. Dr. Puras was one of the founders of […]
Vladan Novakovic, M.D., is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Over the years, Dr. Novakovic has demonstrated his commitment to both clinical and academic psychiatry. Dr. Novakovic joined the faculty as an Attending Psychiatrist on the Inpatient Psychiatric Unit at the James J Peters VA […]
Leo Sher, M.D. On September 23, 2010, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published the report, “Obesity and the Economics of Prevention: Fit not Fat” which comprises 265 pages, 5 tables, and 50 graphs. The report suggests that in the OECD countries one in 2 adults is currently overweight and 1 in 6 […]
Classen TJ, Dunn RA.Loyola University Chicago.Soc Sci Q. 2010;91(3):593-612. Objectives: This article examines the effect of election outcomes on suicide rates by combining the theory of social integration developed by Durkheim with the models of rational choice used in economics. Methods: Theory predicts that states with a greater percentage of residents who supported the losing […]
Leo Sher, M.D. We try to get everything done. We do not have enough time to sleep. In a recently published study, after five days with only four hours of sleep, a 10-hour sleep remedied some of the harmful effects of chronic sleep restriction. However, even after an extended sleep, participants still experienced lapses of […]
Banks S, Van Dongen HP, Maislin G, Dinges DF.Division of Sleep and Chronobiology, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.Sleep. 2010 Aug 1;33(8):1013-26. OBJECTIVE: Establish the dose-response relationship between increasing sleep durations in a single night and recovery of neurobehavioral functions following chronic sleep restriction. DESIGN: Intent-to-treat design in which […]
Jones E, Wessely S.King’s Centre for Military Health Research, London. 20 Century Br Hist. 2010;21(2):163-83. In contemporary culture, soldiers held as prisoners-of-war (POWs) or as hostages are considered at significant risk of mental illness, in particular post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This assumption contrasts with the psychiatric orthodoxy of the First World War when it was […]
Meffert SM, Musalo K, Abdo AO, Alla OA, Elmakki YO, Omer AA, Yousif S, Metzler TJ, Marmar CR.Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA. Med Confl Surviv. 2010 Apr-Jun;26(2):160-72. Thousands of Sudanese refugees have fled to Cairo, Egypt in the wake of Sudanese civil conflicts. Sudanese refugees were evaluated with respect to […]
Mihaljevic S, Vuksan-Cusa B, Marcinko D, Koic E, Kuševic Z, Jakovljevic M.Psychiatry Department, General Hospital Virovitica, Gajeva, Virovitica, CroatiaJ Relig Health. 2010 Aug 7. We present our preliminary results of work that aims to observe the relationship between the cortisol level, the level of spiritual well-being, and suicidal tendencies in Croatian war veterans suffering from […]
Gesundheit B, Ash N, Blazer S, Rivkind AI.Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.Am J Bioeth. 2009 Oct;9(10):40-2. With the escalation of terrorism worldwide in recent years, situations arise in which the perpetration of violence and the defense of human rights come into conflict, creating serious ethical problems. The Geneva Convention provides guidelines for the medical treatment […]
