Steven Lippmann, M.D. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a progressive dementing illness starting during middle to older life. This neurodegenerative brain disease of the frontal and temporal lobes results in personality, behavioral, and language alterations. These clinical features are much more prominent than the forgetfulness and diminished cognition of most other dementing illnesses.
Jacob M. Appel, M.D., J.D. One of the few facts about medical errors that physicians, trial lawyers and patients can all agree upon is that there are too many of them. In the well-publicized Harvard Medical Malpractice Study (1991), researchers discovered that “adverse events due to negligence” occurred during a stunning 1% of hospital admissions. […]
Masahito Fushimi, M.D., Ph.D. I have had the opportunity to deliver lectures on depression at the workplace. These lectures are aimed at increasing public awareness on mental health in the workplace, and recently, I have had many requests to give lectures on the so-called “modern” (new) form of depression.
Steven Lippmann, M.D. On occasion one encounters patients who misidentify people or things in their environment. It is characterized by delusional degrees of erroneous recognition. Such psychotic manifestations can be a part of traditional mental illnesses in psychiatric practice (e.g., Capgras syndrome). However, the development of misrecognitions may also be associated with non-psychiatric etiologies.
Said Shahtahmasebi, Ph.D. Recently New Zealand media covered a story about a report commissioned by Family First that reported on the adverse effects on the mental development of children placed in day care (e.g. see Mums harming kids through daycare – report and daycare debate). The Media’s attempt to enlighten the public is based on […]
Carl J Lavie, M.D., Arthur R. Menezes, M.D., Richard V. Milani, M.D. We read with interest the recent study by Chamberlain and colleagues1 from Olmsted county demonstrating the association of depression and anxiety with hospitalizations for cardiovascular diseases (CVD), as well as the association of depression with increased all-cause mortality. We have previously published on […]
Maria Dolores Braquehais Conesa, M.D., Ph.D. Current psychiatric models of suicidal acts, such as Mann’s (1;2), Oquendo’s (3) and Turecki’s (4), have tried to summarize findings obtained in epidemiological, clinical and neurobiological studies in holistic frameworks. However, those models have serious theoretical and methodological limitations. Those limitations are not exclusive to models of suicide but […]
Alicia R. Ventresca, M.A. Marijuana is the most prolifically used illicit drug among adolescents in the United States. This elicits serious reason for concern given the main effects of early-onset use—neurocognitive deficiencies, psychosocial risk-taking behavior, and developmental as well as psychological problems. With a most vulnerable population willfully choosing to put their mental health—as much […]
Leo Sher, M.D. The Hippocratic Oath is one of the most widely known of Greek medical texts. It requires a new physician to swear that he will uphold a number of professional ethical standards. It is widely believed to have been written by Hippocrates or by one of his students. Hippocrates of Cos or Hippokrates […]
Said Shahtahmasebi and Caroll Aupouri-Mclean Much has been written about Suicide. The literature is complex and yet confused and is often based on a presumption that there must be a mental illness for a person to take such a drastic action as killing oneself. In other words, a person’s decision making process falters only in […]
