Yulin Chu, D.N.P. Millions of years ago, walking on two legs became a key attribute to human development, which distinguished humans from other animals. Since then, we have attained many benefits from walking. Is walking also beneficial to human’s mood? Numerous evidences suggest that physical activity (PA)/walking is a protective factor against depression (Robertson, R., […]
Leo Sher, M.D. On behalf of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) Task Force on Men’s Mental Health I would like to congratulate Professor Shih-Ku Lin, a Member of the Task Force on becoming the President of the Society of Biological Psychiatry of Taiwan and wish Professor Shih-Ku Lin the best success […]
Leo Sher, M.D. The ideal body weight is usually described as a weight that is assumed to be maximally healthful for an individual, based mostly on height but modified by factors such as gender, age, build, and degree of muscular development. Ideal body weight is a definition originally introduced by life-insurance companies to describe the […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Vitamin D, also called calciferol is a lipid soluble vitamin which exists in two major forms: vitamin D2 (ergocalciferol, which is largely ingested) and vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol, which is synthesized in human body). Both forms are inactive form which are converted into active form by two enzymatic hydroxylation reactions, first in liver […]
Sándor Kalmár, M.D., Ph.D. Introduction In the past decades the acceleration of the changes in our society puts an increasing burden on the mental mechanisms of people and the mental development of the youth. Unfortunately, in spite of the huge advances in neuroscience, the family and school rearing of children, the child psychological and the […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Blood is a complex fluid which consists of plasma and of formed elements: red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. The volume of blood in an average human adult is about 5 liters. Females generally have less blood volume than males. People who live at high altitudes, where the air contains […]
Sándor Kalmár, M.D., Ph.D. Introduction This study based on an International Survey. In the past years Professor Aurel Nirestean, Emese Lukács and our colleagues made an examination in eight secondary schools and seven Universities in three countries. In the current study we did not investigate the psychiatric disorders but only the presence of sixteen psychological […]
Jeffrey Goltz, M.D. SSRIs are the first line pharmacological treatment for PTSD. However, the response rate with SSRIs alone is typically <60%, with between 20-40% of patients achieving full remission. Thus, many PTSD patients either have residual symptoms or are resistant to treatment with SSRIs. This article will briefly review evidence for use of antipsychotic […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A paper, “Association of coffee consumption with total and cause-specific mortality in three large prospective cohorts” has just been published in Circulation (1). The authors studied the associations of consumption of total, caffeinated, and decaffeinated coffee with risk of subsequent total and cause-specific mortality among 74,890 women in the Nurses’ Health Study […]
Sándor Kalmár, M.D., Ph.D. Introduction This study based on a small part of an International Survey. In 2012-2013 years Professor Aurel Nirestean, Emese Lukács (Tirgu Mures, Romania) and our colleagues made an examination in eight secondary schools and seven Universities in three countries. This article contains only the examination of spirituality among secondary school students […]
