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Patients in psychiatry have complicated medical histories. Patients with Bipolar disorder are one of them. Patients often have multiple episodes with different medication schedules, helpful or not. Life Charts are used for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes with these patients. Other mental illnesses also have a fluctuating course with partial or complete remission. A recent article on medgadget.com discussed TimelineMaker, a software package specifically designed to create clean looking time lines.You quickly enter a series of events and details like time and place, click the button that generates the chart, and you automatically get a simple timeline. From here one can .....read more »

Precise description of electroshock treatment by a patient undergoing this treatment. He has prior experience with the treatment. Impressive account of the pros and cons.Related posts: Video on YouTube from a patient during his ECT course Hands On Experience with ECT Gel Health, Conference About The Patient Experience in Health Care ..read more »

Dr Shock is in Scotland for a few days. This afternoon he had the pleasure of sitting in a Sir Winston Churchill chair, while sipping his afternoon tea. The hotel owning this chair is on the picture. The chair is made out of timbers from Blenheim Palace, the place were Sir Winston Churchill was born. The manufacturer also used copper left over from material from world war two.Above the chair there was a certificate. Under the seat of the chair there was a sigar humidor. Most convenient, room for three Cuban sigars. Very solid made and comfortable.Price 3250,- pounds.Related posts: Rocking .....read more »

The famous book Neuropsychopharmacology: The Fifth Generation of Progress is online available for free (as in free beer). It has a magnificent chapter about Electroconvulsive therapy.Electroconvulsive therapy: sixty years of progress and a comparison with transcranial magnetic stimulation and vagal nerve stimulationRelated posts: Information from the Royal College of Psychiatrists about electroconvulsive therapy 11 New Sites and Blog posts with information about Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) 10 Video’s on Electroconvulsive Therapy ..read more »

AstraZeneca deleted references to claims that taking Seroquel carries a risk for teenagers: they will be more likely thinking about harming or killing themselves when taking this drug. The deleter was a user of a computer shown to be registered to the drug company. The FDA proposed that makers of antidepressants including AstraZeneca update their text to include warnings over increased risk of suicidal thinking in young adults.Dr Shock read this while in Scotland in The Times.Wikipedia Scanner -- the brainchild of Cal Tech computation and neural-systems graduate student Virgil Griffith -- offers users a searchable database that ties millions .....read more »

In 1860, Elizabeth Packard, who differed with the theology of her clergyman husband, was forcibly placed in an Illinois state hospital. She remained there for 3 years. At that time, Illinois law stated that "married" women could be hospitalized at a husband's request without the evidence required in other cases. Want to know how this ended?The Question of Patient Restraint in 1900?Women were not welcomed into the medical profession during the first half of the 19th century. Many arguments against women becoming physicians were physiological and neurological: would the education and training required make a woman unfit for her "primary .....read more »

Dr Shock is very honoured to be in the top 25 medblogs on number 13. My lucky number as well. The dutch website is called medgadget.nlThis blog also has en English version, with a ranking for English medical weblogs on which Dr Shock doesnot appear......yet.But never mind, I write in English at least I try to write proper English.Medgadget.nl: I have been a big fan of Medgadget.com for a while now. You can read more about the founders at Planet.nl (dutch). That is why I thought it would be great to introduce a dutch alternative. At this site I will .....read more »

Free Medical Journals was launched in late February 2000, days before the inflation of the Internet bubble. Within a year, it had 15,000 visitors per day. In early 2007, these figures stabilized to around 7,000 daily visitors.FMJ is a simplistic website: it only produces a list of free journals.Most articles from the journals listed at FMJ are freely available one to 6 months after publication. But there are also really free medical journals even for psychiatryRelated posts: List of Tweeting Journals, Vote Please Editing Medical Journals, A Course in Oxford US Army medical illustrations and photos free online ..read more »

Hypoperfusion of parts of the brain in depressive disorder largely normalizes after response to antidepressants. Perfusion changes after response to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) follows a different course. This interesting conclusion is recently published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. The design of this study delivers interesting results besides those already mentioned.First they compared healthy controls with depressed patients without medication for at least 2 weeks before undergoing SPECT. Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is a nuclear medicine tomographic imaging technique using gamma rays. It is very similar to conventional nuclear medicine planar imaging using a gamma camera. However, it .....read more »