Tuchner M, Meiner Z, Parush S, Hartman-Maeir A.Isr J Psychiatry Relat Sci. 2010;47(4):269-75. Background: During the past few decades, terrorist acts have been an unfortunate reality worldwide. There is a striking paucity of research investigating the multitude of long-term outcomes after severe physical injury due to terrorist attacks, a unique subgroup of trauma patients. The […]
Yehuda R, Golier JA, Bierer LM, Mikhno A, Pratchett LC, Burton CL, Makotkine I, Devanand DP, Pradhaban G, Harvey PD, Mann JJ.Psychiatry Res. 2010 Nov 30;184(2):117-27 Neuroendocrine, cognitive and hippocampal alterations have been described in Gulf War (GW) veterans, but their inter-relationships and significance for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have not been described. Hydrocortisone (Hcort) […]
Vaage AB, Thomsen PH, Rousseau C, Wentzel-Larsen T, Ta TV, Hauff E.Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health. 2011 Jan 10;5(1):2. BACKGROUND: Intergenerational transmission of trauma as a determinant of mental health has been studied in the offspring of Holocaust survivors and combat veterans, and in refugee families. Mainly negative effects on the children are reported, while […]
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.
Schneider B, Baumert J, Schneider A, Marten-Mittag B, Meisinger C, Erazo N, Hammer GP, Ladwig KH.Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2010 Sep 21. [Epub ahead of print] BACKGROUND: Smoking and heavy alcohol use predicts suicidal behaviour. Whether the simultaneous presentation of both conditions induces an amplified effect on risk prediction has not been investigated so far. […]
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 […]
Priebe S, Bogic M, Ashcroft R, Franciskovic T, Galeazzi GM, Kucukalic A, Lecic-Tosevski D, Morina N, Popovski M, Roughton M, Schützwohl M, Ajdukovic D.Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Barts’ and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, UKSoc Sci Med. 2010 Oct 30. [Epub ahead of print] War experiences […]
Ganz D, Sher LDepartment of Psychiatry, Columbia University, and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USAMinerva Pediatr. 2010 Aug;62(4):363-70. Recently, the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adolescence is higher than the prevalence of PTSD in adult populations. PTSD and suicidality are often found in populations of adolescents presenting with other emotional […]
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 […]
