🔗 The Lancet
The Lancet Series on Global Mental Health
Posts with the tag « psychiatry » :
🔗 ACMI - Action for Mental Illness
Indian advocacy initiative for rights & quality of mental services
🔗 Why Psychiatry and Neurology Cannot Simply Merge -- J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci
to read
🔗 Long QT Syndrome EKG Analysis
Measuring a patient's QTc is generally a simple procedure, however it is critical that it is performed carefully.
🔗 Risk for schizophrenia and schizophrenia-like psychosis among patients with epilepsy: population based cohort study -- Qin et al. 331 (7507): 23 -- BMJ
There is a strong association between epilepsy and schizophrenia or schizophrenia-like psychosis. The two conditions may share common genetic or environmental causes.
🔗 Mirtazapine for Neuroleptic-Induced Akathisia -- POYUROVSKY and WEIZMAN 158 (5): 819 -- Am J Psychiatry
suggest that the serotoninergic system may play a role in the pathophysiology of neuroleptic-induced akathisia
🔗 Physchological Medicine Hospital
Adel Sadek's hospital website
🔗 Bupropion, nicotinic ACh receptor antagonism
Review of the Pharmacology and Clinical Profile of Bupropion, an Antidepressant and Tobacco Use Cessation Agent
🔗 Tobacco Use in Shisha - studies on Waterpipe Smoking in Egypt
largest study on shisha use in Egypt
🔗 Principles for the protection of persons with mental illness and the improvement of mental health care
Principles for the protection of persons with mental illness
🔗 Open Society Mental Health Initiative - Open Society Institute
aims to ensure that people with mental disabilities are able to live in the community and to participate in society with full respect for their human rights.
🔗 PLoS Medicine - What Is the Best Approach to Treating Schizophrenia in Developing Countries?
the current status of treatment efforts for schizophrenia in the developing world and the measures that can be taken to increase the proportion of patients receiving treatment.
🔗 EGYPT - THE REALITY!! ( By Isis)
a blog by a former Heroin abuser
🔗 The methodology of case-control studies
How to minimise bias in case-control studies and looks at solutions to the problems of recruiting, how many subjects to use and why it is important to report recruitment methods.
🔗 Kleine-Levin syndrome: interface between neurology and psychiatry
first episode of Kleine-Levin (KLS) syndrome in a 17-year-old male
🔗 The Magnetic Brain Stimulator Will See You Now
next generation TMS
🔗 Mania-like behavior induced by disruption of CLOCK -- Roybal et al., 10.1073/pnas.0609625104 -- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
CLOCK mutant mice == manic mice ... animal models of bipolar disorder?
🔗 doctornafsy.com :: قائمة المنتديات
هشام حتاتة !
🔗 The University of Adelaide Library | Treatment Guidelines for Mental Health
books and journal articles relating to practice guidelines in the treatment of mental disorders
🔗 IoP: podcasts:
podcasts from the Institute of Psychiatry
🔗 the egypt blog: Prisoners of Sex
Negar Azimi's article about gay rights in Egypt. Interviews Psychiatrists; some receive ECT.
🔗 The Last Psychiatrist: The Ten Biggest Mistakes Psychiatrists Make
Talk too much, Take too much history, Blame lawyers/insurance companies/Big Pharma, Become social policy analysts, Don’t refer to therapy, Don’t think strategically, Polypharmacy, Diagnose everything
🔗 فصام العقل
arabic schizophrenia information website
🔗 Dual Diagnosis: Index Page
substance abuse and personality disorders
🔗 globeandmail.com: Psychiatrist held responsible for patient's action
The case is thought to be the first in which a psychiatrist has been held civilly responsible for a killing committed by a psychotic patient she had released into the community.into the community.