Other Psychiatric Disorders

Seifert AE, Polusny MA, Murdoch M.Mil Med. 2011 Feb;176(2):161-9. OBJECTIVE: We examined associations between abusive childhood experiences and functioning and psychiatric symptoms in an active duty sample of U.S. Army soldiers.METHODS: Cross-sectional survey of 204 soldiers stationed at a southern U.S. Army facility.RESULTS: Forty-six percent of individuals reported childhood physical abuse alone, whereas 25% reported […]

INSERM Collective Expert Reports. Paris: Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale, 2004. Excerpt. Suicide constitutes a major public health problem. It is a manifestation of self-destructive behavior that results from a crisis situation often not sufficiently recognized by relatives and friends or by the medical profession. It affects all age categories […]

Bromet EJ, Havenaar JM, Guey LT.Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol). 2011 Feb 15. [Epub ahead of print] The Chernobyl Forum Report from the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster concluded that mental health effects were the most significant public health consequence of the accident. This paper provides an updated review of research […]

Scharf M, Mayseless O.University of Haifa.Qual Health Res. 2010 Dec 28. [Epub ahead of print] Second-generation Holocaust survivors might not show direct symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder or attachment disorganization, but are at risk for developing high levels of psychological distress.

Yehuda R, Joëls M, Morris RG.Nat Rev Neurosci. 2010 Dec;11(12):837-9. Declarative and emotional memories are key to quality of life and day-to-day functioning. The absence of memory or the inability to recall memories properly in an emotional context leads to dysfunction but, paradoxically, memories that generate too much emotion can be equally disabling.

Jukkala T, Mäkinen IH. Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS), Södertörn University, 141 89, Huddinge, Sweden PURPOSE: Attitudes concerning the acceptability of suicide have been emphasized as being important for understanding why levels of suicide mortality vary in different societies across the world. While Russian suicide mortality levels are among the highest in the […]

Classen TJ, Dunn RA.Loyola University Chicago.Soc Sci Q. 2010;91(3):593-612. Objectives: This article examines the effect of election outcomes on suicide rates by combining the theory of social integration developed by Durkheim with the models of rational choice used in economics. Methods: Theory predicts that states with a greater percentage of residents who supported the losing […]

Banks S, Van Dongen HP, Maislin G, Dinges DF.Division of Sleep and Chronobiology, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.Sleep. 2010 Aug 1;33(8):1013-26. OBJECTIVE: Establish the dose-response relationship between increasing sleep durations in a single night and recovery of neurobehavioral functions following chronic sleep restriction. DESIGN: Intent-to-treat design in which […]

Bagley SC, Munjas B, Shekelle P.Department of Veteran Affairs, Psychiatry, Palo Alto, CA, USA. Suicide Life Threat Behav. 2010 Jun;40(3):257-65. Military personnel and veterans have important suicide risk factors. After a systematic review of the literature on suicide prevention, seven (five in the U.S.) studies of military personnel were identified containing interventions that may reduce […]

Rudaleviciene P, Adomaitiene V, Stompe T, Narbekovas A, Meilius K, Raskauskiene N, Rudalevicius J, Bunevicius R.Institute of Psychophysiology and Rehabilitation, Kaunas University of Medicine, Lithuania.Medicina (Kaunas). 2010;46(3):185-92. This article presents data on the phenomenology of delusions of persecution and poisoning in patients with schizophrenia and determines parallels between sociodemographic status and personal religiosity and this […]