Gavaudan G, Magalon D, Cohen J, Lançon C, Léonetti G, Pélissier-Alicot AL.Service de Médecine Légale, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France.J Forensic Sci. 2010 Jun 23. Pathological gambling (PG), classified in the DSM-IV among impulse control disorders, is defined as inappropriate, persistent gaming for money with serious personal, family, and social consequences. […]
Sher L.Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, Suite 2917, Box 42, New York, NY 10032, USA.Med Hypotheses. 2009 Aug;73(2):215-9. Many wars have been fought during the history of civilization. About 30 armed conflicts are occurring now around the globe involving more than 25 countries. Many war veterans have […]
Stanton SJ, Beehner JC, Saini EK, Kuhn CM, Labar KS.Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America.PLoS One. 2009 Oct 21;4(10):e7543. BACKGROUND: Political elections are dominance competitions. When men win a dominance competition, their testosterone levels rise or remain stable to resist a circadian decline; and when they lose, their […]
María Dolores Braquehais Conesa, M.D., Ph.D. DesRoches et al. (1) have recently published an interesting study whose aim was to answer three important questions: 1) do the professional activities of life sciences researchers differ by gender?; 2) does professional productivity of researchers still vary by gender?; and, finally, 3) after professionals activities are accounted for, […]
Leo Sher, M.D. The VI Baltic Symposium on Biological Psychiatry was held on April 23, 2010 in Palanga, Lithuania. The theme of the symposium was “Paraphilias and Sexual Abuse.” About 300 clinicians, researchers and public health administrators attended the symposium. Dr. Florence Thibaut, Professor of Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of […]
Byers MG, Allison KM, Wendel CS, Lee JK.Southern Arizona VA Health Care System, Tucson, AZ, USA. J Clin Psychopharmacol. 2010 Jun;30(3):225-9. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder experienced by combat veterans. Nighttime symptoms are often unrelieved by selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor therapy, and increased use of prazosin or quetiapine for treatment is seen. […]
Bagley SC, Munjas B, Shekelle P.Department of Veteran Affairs, Psychiatry, Palo Alto, CA, USA. Suicide Life Threat Behav. 2010 Jun;40(3):257-65. Military personnel and veterans have important suicide risk factors. After a systematic review of the literature on suicide prevention, seven (five in the U.S.) studies of military personnel were identified containing interventions that may reduce […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Biological Psychiatry and Psychopharmacology, an international scientific journal affiliated with the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry and the Lithuanian Society of Biological Psychiatry, invites authors to submit papers. Biological Psychiatry and Psychopharmacology focuses upon clinical and basic science contributions that advance our understanding of the brain and behavior. The journal […]
Kimerling R, Street AE, Pavao J, Smith MW, Cronkite RC, Holmes TH, Frayne SM.VA Palo Alto Health Care System.Am J Public Health. 2010 Jun 17. We examined military-related sexual trauma among deployed Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom veterans. Of 125729 veterans who received Veterans Health Administration primary care or mental health services, 15.1% […]
Halvorsen JØ, Kagee A.Centre on Violence, Traumatic Stress and Suicide Prevention, Trondheim University Hospital, Schwachs gate 1, N-7030 Trondheim, Norway. J Interpers Violence. 2010 Jun;25(6):989-1005. The present study investigated potential predictors of the psychological sequelae of torture among 143 former political activists who had been detained during the apartheid era in South Africa.
