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 […]
Johnson K, Scott J, Rughita B, Kisielewski M, Asher J, Ong R, Lawry L.Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.JAMA. 2010 Aug 4;304(5):553-62. CONTEXT: Studies from the Eastern Region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have provided anecdotal reports of sexual violence. This study offers a population-based assessment of the prevalence of […]
Sándor Kalmár M.D. Ph.D. There are several possible reasons for the lack of proper recognition of depression in Primary Care Practice in Hungary: 1. General practitioners, who have graduated several years ago, only formally participate in CME courses, lack a holistic approach and do not possess sufficient knowledge, do not think of depression and do […]
Tatu L, Bogousslavsky J, Moulin T, Chopard JL. Department of Neuromuscular Diseases, CHU Jean-Minjoz, Boulevard Fleming, 25030 Besançon Cedex, France Neurology. 2010 Jul 20;75(3):279-83 The French neurologists and psychiatrists who were mobilized during the Great War were confronted with numerous soldiers with war neuroses, often with novel clinical manifestations such as camptocormia. They addressed hysteria […]
Sándor Kalmár M.D. Ph.D. Every suicide prevention program is based on the findings of the famous Gotland study. Gotland is a famous island in Sweden, in the middle of Baltic Sea. One of the greatest results of this program, besides the decreasing number of suicides, is the recognition of the fact that every short educational […]
Gavaudan G, Magalon D, Cohen J, Lançon C, Léonetti G, Pélissier-Alicot AL.Service de Médecine Légale, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France.J Forensic Sci. 2010 Jun 23. Pathological gambling (PG), classified in the DSM-IV among impulse control disorders, is defined as inappropriate, persistent gaming for money with serious personal, family, and social consequences. […]
Sher L.Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, Suite 2917, Box 42, New York, NY 10032, USA.Med Hypotheses. 2009 Aug;73(2):215-9. Many wars have been fought during the history of civilization. About 30 armed conflicts are occurring now around the globe involving more than 25 countries. Many war veterans have […]
Stanton SJ, Beehner JC, Saini EK, Kuhn CM, Labar KS.Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America.PLoS One. 2009 Oct 21;4(10):e7543. BACKGROUND: Political elections are dominance competitions. When men win a dominance competition, their testosterone levels rise or remain stable to resist a circadian decline; and when they lose, their […]
María Dolores Braquehais Conesa, M.D., Ph.D. DesRoches et al. (1) have recently published an interesting study whose aim was to answer three important questions: 1) do the professional activities of life sciences researchers differ by gender?; 2) does professional productivity of researchers still vary by gender?; and, finally, 3) after professionals activities are accounted for, […]
