Leo Sher, M.D. We try to get everything done. We do not have enough time to sleep. In a recently published study, after five days with only four hours of sleep, a 10-hour sleep remedied some of the harmful effects of chronic sleep restriction. However, even after an extended sleep, participants still experienced lapses of […]
Banks S, Van Dongen HP, Maislin G, Dinges DF.Division of Sleep and Chronobiology, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.Sleep. 2010 Aug 1;33(8):1013-26. OBJECTIVE: Establish the dose-response relationship between increasing sleep durations in a single night and recovery of neurobehavioral functions following chronic sleep restriction. DESIGN: Intent-to-treat design in which […]
Jones E, Wessely S.King’s Centre for Military Health Research, London. 20 Century Br Hist. 2010;21(2):163-83. In contemporary culture, soldiers held as prisoners-of-war (POWs) or as hostages are considered at significant risk of mental illness, in particular post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This assumption contrasts with the psychiatric orthodoxy of the First World War when it was […]
Meffert SM, Musalo K, Abdo AO, Alla OA, Elmakki YO, Omer AA, Yousif S, Metzler TJ, Marmar CR.Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA. Med Confl Surviv. 2010 Apr-Jun;26(2):160-72. Thousands of Sudanese refugees have fled to Cairo, Egypt in the wake of Sudanese civil conflicts. Sudanese refugees were evaluated with respect to […]
Mihaljevic S, Vuksan-Cusa B, Marcinko D, Koic E, Kuševic Z, Jakovljevic M.Psychiatry Department, General Hospital Virovitica, Gajeva, Virovitica, CroatiaJ Relig Health. 2010 Aug 7. We present our preliminary results of work that aims to observe the relationship between the cortisol level, the level of spiritual well-being, and suicidal tendencies in Croatian war veterans suffering from […]
Gesundheit B, Ash N, Blazer S, Rivkind AI.Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.Am J Bioeth. 2009 Oct;9(10):40-2. With the escalation of terrorism worldwide in recent years, situations arise in which the perpetration of violence and the defense of human rights come into conflict, creating serious ethical problems. The Geneva Convention provides guidelines for the medical treatment […]
Johnson K, Scott J, Rughita B, Kisielewski M, Asher J, Ong R, Lawry L.Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.JAMA. 2010 Aug 4;304(5):553-62. CONTEXT: Studies from the Eastern Region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have provided anecdotal reports of sexual violence. This study offers a population-based assessment of the prevalence of […]
Sándor Kalmár M.D. Ph.D. There are several possible reasons for the lack of proper recognition of depression in Primary Care Practice in Hungary: 1. General practitioners, who have graduated several years ago, only formally participate in CME courses, lack a holistic approach and do not possess sufficient knowledge, do not think of depression and do […]
Tatu L, Bogousslavsky J, Moulin T, Chopard JL. Department of Neuromuscular Diseases, CHU Jean-Minjoz, Boulevard Fleming, 25030 Besançon Cedex, France Neurology. 2010 Jul 20;75(3):279-83 The French neurologists and psychiatrists who were mobilized during the Great War were confronted with numerous soldiers with war neuroses, often with novel clinical manifestations such as camptocormia. They addressed hysteria […]
Sándor Kalmár M.D. Ph.D. Every suicide prevention program is based on the findings of the famous Gotland study. Gotland is a famous island in Sweden, in the middle of Baltic Sea. One of the greatest results of this program, besides the decreasing number of suicides, is the recognition of the fact that every short educational […]
