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Leo Sher, M.D. Prof. Joav Merrick has informed me that he is organizing the First International Congress on Child Health and Human Development. Joav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc is Medical Director, Health Services, Division for Persons with Intellectual Disability, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, and Director, National Institute of Child Health and Human […]
Leo Sher, M.D. The “II International Congress on Dual Disorders: Addictive Behaviours and other Mental Disorders” will be held on October 5-8, 2011 in Barcelona, Spain. Miguel Casas, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Head, Servei de Psiquiatria, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, is the Congress Chairman. Researchers and clinicians from many countries including […]
Leo Sher, M.D. The 7th Baltic Symposium of Biological Psychiatry, “Neuroimmunology and Mental Disorders“ will be held on August 26-27, 2011, in Palanga, Lithuania. Professor Robertas Bunevicius, the President of the Lithuanian Society of Biological Psychiatry and the Director of the Institute of Psychophysiology and Rehabilitation of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences is organizing […]
Leo Sher, M.D. The book, “Immigration and Mental Health: Stress, Psychiatric Disorders and Suicidal Behavior among Immigrants and Refugees” edited by me and Alexander Vilens has just been published by Nova Science Publishers (New York, 2010, 349 pages). Immigrants’ journeys to a new nation have been among the most exciting and dignified of human endeavors. […]
Leo Sher, M.D. The book, “Neurobiology of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder” edited by me and Alexander Vilens has just been published by Nova Science Publishers (New York, 2010, 376 pages). We hope that this book is an important contribution to medical sciences and will promote fruitful international collaboration that will enhance and expand academic research and […]
Leo Sher, M.D. The “II International Congress on Dual Disorders: Addictive Behaviours and other Mental Disorders” will be held in Barcelona, Spain, on October 5-8, 2011. The program will consist of plenary sessions, symposia, workshops, meetings with the expert, educational update sessions, oral communications and posters. The members of the organizing committee are proud that […]
Leo Sher, M.D. The World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) has created a new Task Force, “Treatment of Mental Disorders in General Medical Practice.” Robertas Bunevicius (Lithuania) is the Chair of this Task Force. Siegfried Kasper (Austria) is the Co-Chair. Florence Thibaut (France) is the Secretary of the Task Force. Members of the […]
Leo Sher, M.D. The book, “Suicidal behavior in alcohol and drug abuse and dependence” edited by me and Alexander Vilens has just been published by Nova Science Publishers (New York, 2010, 539 pages). We hope that this book is an important contribution to medical sciences and will promote fruitful international collaboration that will enhance and […]
Leo Sher, M.D. We try to get everything done. We do not have enough time to sleep. In a recently published study, after five days with only four hours of sleep, a 10-hour sleep remedied some of the harmful effects of chronic sleep restriction. However, even after an extended sleep, participants still experienced lapses of […]
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, […]
