Other Psychiatric Disorders

Kline A, Ciccone DS, Falca-Dodson M, Black CM, Losonczy M.J Nerv Ment Dis. 2011 Dec;199(12):914-20. ABSTRACT: Despite well-documented postdeployment readjustment problems affecting veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Iraqi Freedom (OIF), few studies have explored the possible relationship of readjustment stressors to the recent increase in military suicide. This study examined associations between suicidal […]

Isung J, Mobarrez F, Nordström P, Asberg M, Jokinen J.World J Biol Psychiatry. 2011 Nov 18. [Epub ahead of print] Abstract. Objectives. Immunological differences have previously been associated with depression and suicidal behaviour. Several cytokines have been identified as potentially important in understanding the pathophysiology of mood disorders and suicidality. Here we aimed to identify […]

Sher L, Labode VPsychiatr Danub 2011 Dec;23(4):396-7 The suicide safety plan is a plan of action created by the clinician and patient that essentially charts the course of what the patient should do if he/she begins to experience suicidal urges. It is important for clinicians to learn how to implement a safety plan so that […]

Iliceto P, Candilera G, Funaro D, Pompili M, Kaplan KJ, Markus-Kaplan M.J Relig Health. 2011 Jun;50(2):321-9. The psychiatric literature is divided with regard to the long-term psychological effects associated with Holocaust (Shoah) experiences because the findings of clinical and empirical studies often contradict each other. Despite case reports of emotional sequelae related to intergenerational transmission […]

Tanaka M, Kinney DK.Psychol Rep. 2011 Jun;108(3):977-92. From an evolutionary perspective, suicide is a puzzle, because it has serious adverse effects, yet is remarkably common and heritable. An hypothesis is proposed to explain this puzzle, by explaining how suicide could be adaptive through reducing risk that individuals will transmit infections to kin. Empirical evidence supports […]

Revollo HW, Qureshi A, Collazos F, Valero S, Casas M.Int Rev Psychiatry. 2011;23(1):84-92 This study explores acculturative stress as a risk factor for depressive and anxiety disorders as well as their symptomatology. It is hypothesized that perceived discrimination and general psychosocial stress will show the greatest association with psychopathology. The sample consists of 414 Latin […]

Sher L. QJM. 2011 May;104(5):455-8. Epub 2010 Nov 4. Studies of the neurobiology of suicidal behavior have become an important and integral part of psychiatric research. Over the past several years, studies of the role of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in the pathophysiology of suicidality have attracted significant interest of researchers. Multiple lines of evidence […]

Post JM.Psychiatr Clin North Am. 2002 Sep;25(3):635-46 Questions concerning such matters as the effects of health and alcoholism on Boris Yeltsin’s decision making; the mind of the Unabomber; the psychology and decision making of Saddam Hussein of Iraq, who was initially characterized by the US Government as “the madman of the Middle East”; the psychology […]

Luo F, Florence C, Quispe-Agnoli M, Ouyang L, Crosby A.Am J Public Health. 2011 Apr 14. [Epub ahead of print] Objectives. We examined the associations of overall and age-specific suicide rates with business cycles from 1928 to 2007 in the United States. Methods. We conducted a graphical analysis of changes in suicide rates during business […]

Otani H, Kusumi T, Kato K, Matsuda K, Kern RP, Widner R Jr, Ohta N.Memory. 2005 Jan;13(1):6-20. Flashbulb memories are vivid memories of the details surrounding the discovery of an emotional event. We investigated whether the nuclear accident that occurred in Japan in 1999 produced flashbulb memories among people who lived near the accident site. […]