Bishop A, Anderson JE.Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama at Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama, USA.Toxicology. 2005 Mar 15;208(2):193-205. Nitric oxide (NO) is a free radical gas that has a Janus nature. As indicated by the literature and by our studies, in the cell, NO can either function as a beneficial physiological agent utilized for essential […]
Bishop A, Hobbs KG, Eguchi A, Jeffrey S, Smallwood L, Pennie C, Anderson J, Estévez AG.Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama, USA.J Neurochem. 2009 Apr;109(1):93-104. Depending on its concentration, nitric oxide (NO) has beneficial or toxic effects. In pathological conditions, NO reacts with superoxide to form peroxynitrite, which nitrates proteins […]
Bishop A, Gooch R, Eguchi A, Jeffrey S, Smallwood L, Anderson J, Estevez AG.Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama at Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama, USA. J Neurochem. 2009 Apr;109(1):74-84. During CNS injury and diseases, nitric oxide (NO) is released at a high flux rate leading to formation of peroxynitrite (ONOO(*)) and other reactive nitrogenous species, […]
Leo Sher, M.D. The VI Baltic Symposium of Biological Psychiatry will be held in Palanga, Lithuania, on April 23, 2010. The topic of the symposium is “Paraphilias and Sexual Abuse.” Professor Florence Thibout, the President of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP), and Professor Robertas Bunevicius, a Vice-President of the WFSBP will […]
Leo Sher, M.D. February 13, 2010. Amy Bishop, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, opened fire during a biology faculty meeting at the University of Alabama’s Huntsville campus yesterday, killing three biology faculty members, including the Chairman of the Department of Biological Sciences, and injuring three other employees at the school (1-7). Dr. Amy […]
Mayers P, Keet N, Winkler G, Flisher AJ.Division of Nursing and Midwifery, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa.Int J Soc Psychiatry. 2010 Jan;56(1):60-73. BACKGROUND: Sedation, seclusion or restraint are recognized methods of containing a person experiencing an acute psychotic episode with behavioural disturbance which has […]
Professor and Director of a Clinical Neuroscience oriented Section of the Lund Department of Clinical Sciences, Medical Faculty, Lund University. Consultant psychiatrist, Division of Psychiatry, University Hospitals, Lund. Basic education:Graduated from Medical School, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 1971.Specialist in Psychiatry, 1978. Clinical psychiatry duties:Resident in psychiatry, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, 1974-1979. Head of Solna psychiatry, Karolinska, 1984-1986.Head […]
Yuval Neria, Ph.D is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University, Departments of Psychiatry and Epidemiology, and Director of Trauma and PTSD at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He received his PhD in Psychology from Haifa University, Israel (1994), and was on faculty of Tel Aviv University until his recruitment to Columbia University […]
Steel Z, Bateman Steel CR, Silove D.Centre for Population Mental Health Research and Psychiatry Research and Teaching Unit, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Australia.J Trauma Stress. 2009 Sep 9. Since World War II, a comprehensive body of international law has developed to protect and promote human rights. Three generations of rights can […]
Jacobson N.Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and Department of Psychiatry, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.Qual Health Res. 2009 Nov;19(11):1536-47. In this grounded theory analysis I sought to understand dignity violation in health care and to explore the context in which such violations take place. I found that dignity violation in health care occurs through processes of […]
