🔗 Procrastination Scale (Lay, 1986)
20 point Lay's procrastination scale with questions for students and non-students
20 point Lay's procrastination scale with questions for students and non-students
This website provides cultural information and background on different refugee and immigrant communities including information about culture, language, health, illness, and community resources. Useful to health care providers who see patients from different ethnic groups.
Children oriented TF-CBT on-line course
Guidebook for PFA for children and adolescents
NEJM: Mild Cognitive Impairment http://is.gd/8Z5kz5
Useful introductory resource for medical students and the public to psychiatry.
MSF works with local psychologists in Misrata, Libya, following months of war, to treat anxiety, depression, post-traumatic reactions, psychosomatic complaints and behavioral disorders.
تمسكت الدكتورة بسمة عبد العزيز، مدير الإعلام والتثقيف بالأمانة العامة للصحة النفسية، بالبيان الذي أصدرته، الإثنين، لرفض إحالة المدون مايكل نبيل إلى مستشفى الصحة النفسية بالعباسية، رغم إحالتها للتحقيق وتبرؤ وزارة الصحة من البيان.
A non-obvious phenotype (feature/condition) in an individual that is associated with the illness, heritable and measurable even before the illness manifests.
Film on the medicalisation of female sexual dysfunction.
"It is intellectually dishonest for a mental health professional to give a diagnosis without examining the patient." http://is.gd/AMNLX0
A useful leaflet on sleeping well http://bit.ly/bBfJmW /by @rcpsych
It is an awful lot harder to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy http://is.gd/97c13H #broadmoor #psychiatry
Junk food intervention for a patient with poisoning delusion http://is.gd/CHFrbG
Neurology vs Psychiatry http://bit.ly/eKCNfl
If you watched Qadafi's speech it's time to learn more about formal thought disorder http://is.gd/Zeogi4 #psychiatry #gaddafi
Anti-nausea drug Ondansetron helps some alcoholics stay abstinent.
GREAT NEWS: The building housing the Abbaseyya Psychiatric Hospital will be listed as an Islamic heritage site.
تقرير العاشرة مساءا بخصوص نقل مستشفى العباسية http://goo.gl/mQjQJ (hat tip @sarahcarr)
وقفة احتجاجية لأطباء مستشفى العباسية والعاملين بها الأحد ضد قرار نقلها وهدمها
The Video Journal of Psychiatry is an on-line psychiatry resource dedicated to supporting Lifelong Learning and Continuing Medical Education for psychiatrists in Ireland. All material is contributed by international psychiatry experts, both practitioner and researcher.
An article by Mark Vonnegut (K. Vonnegut's son who's now a paediatrician) on his illness.
Another scandal for Dr. Charles Nemeroff.
Developing nations have ridiculously few psychiatrists per population. Indonesia has 600.
From 1896–1901, 27% of cases of insanity admitted to the Egyptian Asylum at Cairo were attributed to the abuse of hasheesh.