Masahito Fushimi, M.D., Ph.D. A history of previous suicide attempts serves as a significant risk factor associated with suicide victims. In other words, suicide attempters have a high probability of completing suicide in the future (i.e., high-risk group for future suicide victims). In fact, one of the important suicide prevention measures is to provide care […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Multiple lines of evidence suggest that psychological problems are associated with cardiovascular disorders (1,2). Studies of war veterans from prior wars have shown that those with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are at substantially increased risk of developing and dying from cardiovascular disease (3,4). A research group from San Francisco examined the association […]
Said Shahtahmasebi, Ph.D. Science is a man-made knowledge-based system derived from ongoing observations which are based on theories about our surroundings. Scientific knowledge acknowledges only the observable and replicable phenomena as truth. Any information about the past and the rest of the universe are merely theories and speculation based on partial observations and historical finds. […]
Steven Lippmann, M.D. We hear people say, “I need guns to protect myself and family.” Is there a relationship between firearms and American health care being the most expensive in world? Actually, rates for suicide, homicide, domestic violence, and accidental death all increase when there is possession of a gun in the home […]
A hassidic woman in Jerusalem, a member of the sect Toldot Aharon, which is called in Israeli newspapers “an extremist haredi sect,” is suspected of starving and abusing her three-and-a-half-year-old son. This story makes headlines in Israeli newspapers. The police have claimed that she not only starved her child at home over a period of […]
Sándor Kalmár M.D., Ph.D. Nihil est intellectu quod non fuerit in sensu. (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646-1716) Despite huge improvements in the research of the nervous system, psychiatry has yet to suitably define a lot of criteria neccesary to accurately define psychiatric illnesses. This crisis in psychiatry has employed psychiatrists all over the world; as was […]
María Dolores Braquehais Conesa, M.D., Ph.D. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) was one of the first thinkers who started to critique reason as the will to instrumental power. The French Philosopher, Michel Foucault (1926-1984) also believed that knowledge was inextricably linked to power 1. More recently, Jürgen Habermas (1929- ) has stated that scientists tend to […]
An interesting study by German experts revealed that men who marry younger women enhance their chances of longevity, and those who tie the knot with older women meet a premature death. The analysis was carried by a research group at Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany. The researchers looked at the deaths […]
