In the United States adolescents presenting to an inner-city emergency department (ED) are more likely to die from violence than from any other condition for which they seek ED care. They also lack a primary care physician and irregularly attend their school. They use Internet more often than adults. This makes their visits to the ED department a great opportunity to refer them to relevant and accurate health websites especially violent prevention websites. From adolescents visiting the ED 115 participated in a survey and they were referred to a violence prevention website. The website offered tips for avoiding and resolving conflict.22% .....read more »

A person 90 years old or between 90 and 100 years old has a high risk of losing independence, but the prevalence of independence still declines only very modestly from age 92 to 100 years.This has the advantage of little societal care cost. So with the expansion of the life span at high age, above 90 years old, fear for high societal costs seems unfounded. The reason for this being that most disabled have a high mortality rate. We live longer mainly due to a reduction in mortality rates among the oldest-old. There is considerable concern, that an extension of life into .....read more »

Among female students only, those who scored highly on neuroticism (i.e. anxious, insecure characters) were more likely to blog. This is consistent with work on internet usage that also found an association with neurotic personality types, but only among women. The researchers surmised that nervous women may blog to "assuage loneliness or in an attempt to reach out and form social connections with others." Among both men and women, those who were more open to experience were also more likely to blog - perhaps unsurprisingly given that blogging is a relatively new phenomenon and given that this personality dimension is associated .....read more »

On the Internet psycho education is as effective as cognitive behavior therapy in reducing symptoms of depression. The INTERNET is a useful tool in delivering interventions for depression. Cognitive behavior therapy was predicted to improve symptoms of depression and dysfunctional thoughts more than psycho education but depression literacy was found to be as effective as cognitive behavior therapy in reducing symptoms of depression. Depression is a leading cause of disability worldwide and many individuals with depression do not receive adequate treatment. Large scale intervention programmes on the Internet can benefit these individuals and prevent the disabilities associated with this disease. The .....read more »

Electroshock or Electro convulsive therapy is often depicted negatively in Hollywood films. It encourages stigmatization and discourages patients from its use. So if your About To Have ECT? Fine, but Don’t Watch It in the Movies: The Sorry Portrayal of ECT in Film. You can read more about electroshock in Hollywood productions in this prior post on this blog. If you want some information on video from patients while they are actually undergoing this treatment or want to see an excellent lecture about ECT please have a look at: 9 Videos on ECT. In newspapers when comparing newspaper reports on ECT and .....read more »

Very creative visual effects. This is the story: In 1969 14-year-old Jerry Levitan "armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. The films website: I Met The Walrus Thanks presentation zenRelated posts: Academy For Film and Psychiatry 2008 Conference on Happiness and Its Causes Dr Shock’s popular posts from 2008 and a look ahead for 2009. ..read more »

Running at middle and older ages is associated with reduced disability in later life and a notable survival advantage. According to a recent published study in the Archives of Internal Medicine. They published the results of a longitudinal study comparing disability and mortality outcomes between cohorts of runners and control subjects initially aged 50 to 72 years after 21 years. This is important because with the rise in life expectancy, it becomes necessary to focus on improving the quality of life and functional abilities as people reach older ages. In addition to confirming an overall survival advantage and reduction in cardiovascular-related deaths .....read more »

Who Moved My Brain? Revaluing Time and Attentionview presentationtags: time gtd All professionals have the same trouble in defending their time. It is always a struggle with: "Can I do this, do I have enough time". Mostly the answer is no but you still take the job. This goes for physicians, researchers, IT workers, bloggers to name a few. Merlin Mann from 43folders is an Getting Things Done (GTD) adept. This is 43 Folders, Merlin Mann’s family of websites about stuff like personal productivity, life hacks, and simple ways to make your life a little better. Using your valuable time is one .....read more »

In women’s magazines and health section of the daily paper, there is a shift toward the “medicalization” of deviation from women’s traditional roles, and the increasing description of mental illness in emotional, not medical, terms. Men’s depressive illness remained medical or psychiatric. In popular newspaper and magazine articles about depressive illness, description of women were that of the stereotype of the woman as the mother and wife. White, middle-aged women targets’ problems with marriage, motherhood, or menstruation replaced DSM-derived terms as indicators of the need for psychopharmaceuticals. These articles were analyzed using established coding methods.The popular articles about depression from a .....read more »

Soon we will start with the dutch version of the grand rounds. You can submit your articles online. Deadline is 24th of August and the grand rounds will be published at the 26th of August. We will keep you posted.Related posts: Grand Rounds Vol. 6 No. 30 is up at The Sterile Eye Dutch Grand Round 9 The New Grand Rounds is up at Sharpbrains ..read more »