Sándor Kalmár M.D. Ph.D. The Hungarian population has been suffering from the high rates suicide for centuries. In 2005, the Suicide Standard Mortality Rate was 2.3 times higher in Hungary than in the Eu-15 countries. There is no other social phenomenon and general public health problem, other than the suicide, which is not only tragic, […]
Leo Sher Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA Comorbidity of Depression and Alcohol Use Disorders. Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2009, 198 pages. Seasonal affective disorder is a condition where depressions in fall and winter alternate with nondepressed periods in the spring and summer. The degree to which seasonal changes […]
Thomas Paparrigopoulos, Eleftherios Mellos and Ioannis Liappas Athens University Medical School, 1st Department of Psychiatry, Eginition Hospital, Athens, Greece Comorbidity of Depression and Alcohol Use Disorders. Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2009, 198 pages. Alcohol use disorders are often accompanied by symptoms of other major psychiatric syndromes which may precede, follow, or be concurrent […]
Susan E. Ramsey and Patricia A. Engler Rhode Island Hospital and Brown Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island, USA Comorbidity of Depression and Alcohol Use Disorders. Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2009, 198 pages. Alcohol consumption may interfere with successful treatment of depression for many patients. Drinking can have a deleterious effect on depression and […]
Kate M. Loewenthal Royal Holloway, University of London, London, UK Comorbidity of Depression and Alcohol Use Disorders. Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2009, 198 pages. The alcohol-depression hypothesis stems from the observation that a raised prevalence of depression occurs in groups in which alcohol use is low. The hypothesis has to be reconciled with […]
Agnes Massak and Kathryn Graham Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, London, Ontario Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada Comorbidity of Depression and Alcohol Use Disorders. Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2009, 198 pages. A relationship between depression and alcohol abuse/dependence has been found in both clinical and general population […]
JianLi Wang(1) and Shawn Currie(2) (1)Departments of Psychiatry and of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada;(2)Mental Health & Addiction Services, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Comorbidity of Depression and Alcohol Use Disorders. Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2009, 198 pages. Major depression is a prevalent mental disorder […]
Sándor Kalmár M.D. Ph.D. April 1st, 2010. It has already been three years since the Hungarian National Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, founded in and operational since 1868, came to an end without any legal successors. The Institute was forced to close based on the decision of the Hungarian government. Much publication justifies the fact […]
Leo Sher, M.D. April 27, 2010. On Monday, April 26, shortly before 8 am, Vajinder Toor, M.D., 34, a postdoctoral trainee at the Yale Medical School Fellowship Training Program in Infectious Diseases, was gunned down by Lishan Wang, M.D., 44, while walking in the parking lot towards his car at Meadows Condominiums in Branford, Connecticut, […]
Kalmár Sándor County Hospital, Kecskemét, Hungary Internet and Suicide. Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2009, 452 pages. The author examines the contents and applicability of results of Internet searches by using the keywords ’öngyilkosság’ (suicide) and ’öngyilkosság megelozése’ (suicide prevention) in Hungary. In spite of some difficulties and many controversial problems, such as fearful, […]
