Not Just another Pretty Face: The Cross-Cultural Perception and Social Ramifications of Facial Attractiveness

Dana Galler Yeshiva University, Stern College for Women, New York, New York, USA Immigration and Mental Health: Stress, Psychiatric Disorders and Suicidal Behavior Among Immigrants and Refugees. Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2010, 350 pages. Physical attractiveness is a significant predictor of important life outcomes, since attractive adults tend to receive more attention and […]

Hydrocortisone responsiveness in Gulf War veterans with PTSD: effects on ACTH, declarative memory hippocampal [(18)F]FDG uptake on PET

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) […]

Brit Haver’s Main Area of Research

My main area of research is women with alcohol addiction: treatment and long term outcome. Why is this topic so important? My answers are the following: More women drink, and they drink more when drinking. Also, they start drinking at a younger age, and continue drinking through a longer lifespan. Women with alcohol addiction have […]

Paternal predictors of the mental health of children of Vietnamese refugees

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 […]

About mental illiteracy: deficits of mental health promotion and primordial prevention in psychiatry

Kalmár Sándor M.D. Ph.D. “If we teach more we must cure less.” (József Fodor) The pedagogue society is in a crisis in Hungary. The Hungarian education system produces below-average results with above-average costs while reproducing the above average inequalities. Earlier primary and secondary school teachers and especially formmasters paid a significant role in the function […]

Ioana Todor, Ph.D.

Ioana Todor is a lecturer in Psychology at the University of Alba Iulia, Romania. She received her MSc in Psychological Counseling and Psychotherapy from “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The topic of the thesis was “Memory Inhibition of Alcohol-Related Words in Alcohol Dependent Individuals”. In 2009, she defended her Ph.D. dissertation on Directed-Forgetting of Social Stereotypes. […]

Democritus

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. –Democritus(ca. 460 BC – ca. 370 BC)

Disorganizing Experiences in Second- and Third-Generation Holocaust Survivors

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.

Exercise Training, Cardiorespiratory Fitness, and Psychosocial Stress

Carl J. Lavie, M.D., FACC, Richard V. Milani, M.D., FACC, Thomas J. Lavie, M.D. We read with interest the excellent paper by Kokkinos and Myers1 on the importance of exercise training (ET) and cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) for cardiovascular (CV) health. They quoted Hippocrates regarding the benefits of physical activity and ET. Likewise, we are reminded […]

A case-control study of risk factors for suicide in Hungary

Leo Sher, M.D. Professor Zoltan Rihmer, an eminent suicidologist and a Distinguished Guest of our website and his colleagues have published the article, “Risk factors for suicide in Hungary: a case-control study”1. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, […]

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