Koro: A culture bound syndrome in which a male falsly believes that his genitals are retracting into his body and the condition will cause eventual death. Usually affects a population and causes mass panic. Happens in south east Asia and similar syndromes occur in Africa. Koro in Malay means "retracting head of a turtle".1

Kuru: A prion disease that causes a progressive neurological disorder that leads to death. Symptoms include dementia, behavioral changes (out …

All passengers are strongly advised to fasten their seat belts in the Neurology department.

After living 8 months (officially 6) in Psychiatry, I will have to start a new life in the land of Neurology.

• Get the car washed
• Change engine oil
• Fix my laptop
• Sit down with my patients
• Do a group therapy
• Clean up some patients files
• Add street names to the list of abused medications
• Send some emails
• Drink more coffee

Happy Eid, I am on my way to Ras Sudr for Windsurfing. I am overworked, I must have some fun.

I have spent almost 200 days in the Psychiatry department as a visiting resident. I didn't finish residency, I am far from it. But I felt today an urge to blog and quickly write without much thinking..

If you have been following this blog, I used to update you infrequently about my personal matters and then I suddenly disappeared. With only few posts.

I got sucked in a black (or rather a rabbit) hole called …

The following is a list of drugs (by their trade names) most commonly abused for their psychoactive properties. Some of the following drugs are over the counter medications that requires no prescription.

This is just a short list with Egyptians trade names. For a more complete list of psychotropics under international control.

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UPDATE: Alaa released

Here is a summary of what happened in the past two weeks regarding the arrest of the most prominent Egyptian blogger and a personal friend.

Alaa Abd El-Fatah (a.k.a Alaa Ahmed Seif) is a blogger, geek, activist and a remarkable person. Arrested, among others, on the 7th of May during a peaceful protest. He was protesting the arrest of Malek and others. Malek, a blogger, was arrested on the …