Currently, Dr. Fushimi is the director of the Akita University Health Center, where he is also a professor. On March 31, 2016, Dr. Fushimi resigned from the position of director at the Akita Prefectural Mental Health and Welfare Center as well as from his work as a psychiatrist at the Akita Prefectural Center for Rehabilitation […]
Sándor Kalmár M.D., Ph.D. Nihil est intellectu quod non fuerit in sensu. (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646-1716) Despite huge improvements in the research of the nervous system, psychiatry has yet to suitably define a lot of criteria neccesary to accurately define psychiatric illnesses. This crisis in psychiatry has employed psychiatrists all over the world; as was […]
Prof. Zoltán Rihmer, MD, PhD, DSc, received his medical diploma in 1971 at the Medical Univesity of Pécs, Hungary. Since then till 2007 he worked at the National Institute for Psychiatry and Neurology, Budapest, Hungary. From 2007, he is a professor of psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, and the scientific director at […]
Sándor Kalmár M.D., Ph.D. is a well-known teacher and physician in Bács-Kiskun County, Hungary. He is a psychiatrist with a background in neurology, social medicine and public health. Dr Kalmár’s main areas of interest in Psychiatry, Neurology and Social Medicine and Public Health are psychopathology, disturbances of perception, depressive disorders, suicide and its prevention, the […]
“I was born in a small town Batala, in northern India and am currently living in Minnesota, USA. I completed my medical school in 2003 from Pune, India. Pursuant to my immense interest in learning the complexities of human brain and behaviour, I did my psychiatry residency from King George’s Medical University in India from […]
Chan VK.School of Business, Macao Polytechnic Institute, Rua de Luis Gonzaga Gomes, Macao, People’s Republic of China. J Gambl Stud. 2009 Jul 11. This article describes the use of neural networks (a type of artificial intelligence) and an empirical data sample of, inter alia, the amounts of bets laid and the winnings/losses made in successive […]
Dr. Paul Quinnett graduated from Washington State University in 1970 in clinical psychology and is currently the President and CEO of the QPR Institute, an educational organization dedicated to preventing suicide. Author of seven books and an award-winning journalist, he is also Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the […]
Suicidal behavior is a critical problem in the military, among civilians during a war and among returning war veterans. Millions of people around the world were involved in many wars and military conflicts during the past 100 years. Nowadays, suicidal behavior is a critical problem among Soldiers and Marines deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), […]
Internet has become an integral part of the life of millions of people in the Western countries and in the developing world. Millions of people search for mental health information on the Internet, and there is a lot. Multiple web sites offer a plethora of information on different topics. Recent research suggests that Internet may […]
The 9th World Congress of Biological Psychiatry was held on June 28-July 2, 2009, at the Palace of Congresses (Le Palais des Congrès de Paris) in Paris, France. The new leadership of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) was elected on July 1, 2009. Prof. Florence Thibaut (France) is the new President […]
