Reid WH.J Psychiatr Pract. 2010 Mar;16(2):120-4. About 35,000 people commit suicide every year in the United States. Almost all are seriously, but treatably, mentally ill. Most come to the attention of a physician, in an emergency room, primary practice setting, or psychiatric hospital or office, during the days, weeks or months before they die. Since […]
Jakupcak M, Cook J, Imel Z, Fontana A, Rosenheck R, McFall M.Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC), VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA, USA.J Trauma Stress. 2009 Aug;22(4):303-6. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was examined as a risk factor for suicidal ideation in Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans (N = 407) referred […]
Welte JW, Barnes GM, Tidwell MC, Hoffman JH.Research Institute on Addictions, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA.J Gambl Stud. 2010 May 25. Two national U.S. telephone surveys of gambling were conducted, an adult survey (age 18 and over, N = 2,631) in 1999-2000 and a youth (age 14-21, N […]
Najavits LM.Harvard Medical School, Treatment Innovations, 28 Westbourne Road, Newton Centre, MA, USA.J Gambl Stud. 2010 Jun 2. This study explored the treatment preferences of 106 people with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), pathological gambling (PG), or both. It is the first know study of its type for this comorbidity. Sixteen different treatment types were rated, […]
Stanton SJ, Labar KS, Saini EK, Kuhn CM, Beehner JC. Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2010 Jun;35(5):768-74. Social subordination can be biologically stressful; when mammals lose dominance contests they have acute increases in the stress hormone cortisol. However, human studies of the effect of dominance contest outcomes on cortisol […]
Kim DR, Pesiridou A, O’Reardon JP.Perinatal Psychiatry Clinic, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2009 Dec;11(6):447-52. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is an emerging novel treatment modality for psychiatric disorders, particularly major depression. A device for delivery of TMS was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for treatment of […]
Kalmár S.Private practice, Kecskemét, HungaryNeuropsychopharmacol Hung. 2009 Dec;11(4):227-34. Introduction: Disturbances of perception play a considerable role in depressed patients’ symptoms. These symptoms are mostly secondary in the daily practice, however, the disturbances of perception of a mild degree lead to cognitive distortions, and they make the recognition of the depression significantly more difficult. Purpose: To […]
Demitrack MA, Thase ME.Neuronetics, Inc.Psychopharmacol Bull. 2009;42(2):5-38. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a novel treatment for patients with major depressive disorder. Although clearly safer and better tolerated than many other pharmacotherapeutic options or electroconvulsive therapy, questions have persisted about thbe magnitude of the efficacy of TMS in patients with pharmacoresistant depression, and the clinical significance […]
Kline A, Falca-Dodson M, Sussner B, Ciccone DS, Chandler H, Callahan L, Losonczy M.Department of Veterans Affairs, New Jersey Health Care System, Lyons Campus, Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences (Bldg 143), Lyons, NJ, USA.Am J Public Health. 2010 Feb;100(2):276-83. OBJECTIVES: We assessed the effects of prior military service in Iraq or Afghanistan on the health […]
Sher L.Division of Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.Acta Psychiatr Scand. 2006 Jan;113(1):13-22. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this paper was to provide a clinical review of the literature on the relation of alcoholism to suicidal behavior. METHOD: Studies of alcoholism and suicidal behavior available in MEDLINE, Institute for Scientific Information […]
