When William Sargant died in 1988 at the age of 81, he had made his mark on British psychiatry. He had exerted considerable influence on US psychiatry as well. This was especially obvious during a time when physical treatments were hardly the fashion in US psychiatry. As The Times (1988) stated at the time of his death, he had made psychiatry more respectable by keeping it close to the medical ...

aim and background: every year, smoking and its related diseases account for the death of at least four million people around the world. this risky behavior is growing among young educated people. the present study examined factors affecting medical students’ tendency of to smoke. methods and materials: this cross-sectional study included 305 medical students in isfahan university of medical sc...

introduction: the present study aimed to find an appropriate method to inform senior high school students to correctly select their academic field of study and their intentions. methods: this is a descriptive-analytic and cross-sectional study. a verified questionnaire was given to a total of 2600 students selected by stratified random sampling method (ten different colleges and entrance year f...

introduction: the purpose of our study was to evaluate the frequency of behavioral problem in pre school-aged children with visual problem. methods: in this expost facto study, which was selected via convenient sampling , 143 children ranging in age from 3-6 years that refer to optometry clinic for routine eye examination were evaluated . after complete ocular exams including evaluation of visu...

Siobhan MacHale is a consultant liaison psychiatrist at the Department of Psychological Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9YW, UK). She trained in general medicine in Ireland before moving to Edinburgh to train in psychiatry. Previous research interests have included psychiatric morbidity following stroke. Her special clinical interest is in perinatal psychi...