Bagley SC, Munjas B, Shekelle P.Department of Veteran Affairs, Psychiatry, Palo Alto, CA, USA. Suicide Life Threat Behav. 2010 Jun;40(3):257-65. Military personnel and veterans have important suicide risk factors. After a systematic review of the literature on suicide prevention, seven (five in the U.S.) studies of military personnel were identified containing interventions that may reduce […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Biological Psychiatry and Psychopharmacology, an international scientific journal affiliated with the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry and the Lithuanian Society of Biological Psychiatry, invites authors to submit papers. Biological Psychiatry and Psychopharmacology focuses upon clinical and basic science contributions that advance our understanding of the brain and behavior. The journal […]
Kimerling R, Street AE, Pavao J, Smith MW, Cronkite RC, Holmes TH, Frayne SM.VA Palo Alto Health Care System.Am J Public Health. 2010 Jun 17. We examined military-related sexual trauma among deployed Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom veterans. Of 125729 veterans who received Veterans Health Administration primary care or mental health services, 15.1% […]
Halvorsen JØ, Kagee A.Centre on Violence, Traumatic Stress and Suicide Prevention, Trondheim University Hospital, Schwachs gate 1, N-7030 Trondheim, Norway. J Interpers Violence. 2010 Jun;25(6):989-1005. The present study investigated potential predictors of the psychological sequelae of torture among 143 former political activists who had been detained during the apartheid era in South Africa.
Weißflog G, Klinitzke G, Hinz A.Universität Leipzig, Department für Psychische Gesundheit, Selbstständige Abteilung für Medizinische Psychologie und Medizinische Soziologie, Leipzig.Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol. 2010 Jun 16. PURPOSE: Political persecution was and is a reality in our world. The study investigated effects of political imprisonment in the former German Democratic Republic on the current health-related quality […]
Ilgen MA, Conner KR, Valenstein M, Austin K, Blow FC.Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence and the Serious Mental Illness Treatment Research and Evaluation Center, Ann Arbor Department of Veterans Affairs, 2215 Fuller Road (11H), Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105.J Stud Alcohol Drugs. 2010 Jul;71(4):473-9. ABSTRACT. Objective: Substance-use disorders (SUDs) increase the risk of […]
Rudaleviciene P, Adomaitiene V, Stompe T, Narbekovas A, Meilius K, Raskauskiene N, Rudalevicius J, Bunevicius R.Institute of Psychophysiology and Rehabilitation, Kaunas University of Medicine, Lithuania.Medicina (Kaunas). 2010;46(3):185-92. This article presents data on the phenomenology of delusions of persecution and poisoning in patients with schizophrenia and determines parallels between sociodemographic status and personal religiosity and this […]
Sher L.Division of Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA. The concept of the placebo effect has received a considerable attention over the past several decades. The placebo effect has been observed in different psychiatric disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a chronic and severe disorder precipitated by exposure to a […]
Hill JV, Johnson RC, Barton RA.1st Infantry Division, Operation Iraqi Freedom II, Tikrit, Iraq.Mil Med. 2006 Mar;171(3):228-32. Suicidal and homicidal soldiers present one of the most frequent and challenging scenarios for deployed mental health providers. A chart review of 425 deployed soldiers seen for mental health reasons found that 127 (nearly 30%) had considered killing […]
Reid WH.J Psychiatr Pract. 2010 Mar;16(2):120-4. About 35,000 people commit suicide every year in the United States. Almost all are seriously, but treatably, mentally ill. Most come to the attention of a physician, in an emergency room, primary practice setting, or psychiatric hospital or office, during the days, weeks or months before they die. Since […]
