Predicting Soldier Suicides

January 23, 2015 / SGWHC Editorial Staff / Journal Articles

Predicting Suicides After Psychiatric Hospitalization in US Army Soldiers The Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS) AUTHORS: Ronald C. Kessler, PhD1; Christopher H. Warner, MD2; Christopher Ivany, MD3; Maria V. Petukhova, PhD1; Sherri Rose, PhD1; Evelyn J. Bromet, PhD4; Millard Brown III, MD, MB3; Tianxi Cai, ScD5; Lisa J. Colpe, PhD, MPH6; Kenneth L. Cox, MD, MPH7; Carol S. Fullerton, PhD8; Stephen E. Gilman, ScD9,10; Michael J. Gruber, MS1; Steven G. Heeringa, PhD11; Lisa Lewandowski-Romps, PhD11; Junlong Li, PhD5; Amy M. Millikan-Bell, MD, MPH7; James […]

Preventive Medicine, psychiatry, suicide, veterens

Male Idiot Factor in the Darwin Awards

January 23, 2015 / SGWHC Editorial Staff / Blog

British researchers used the Christmas issue of the renowned British Medical Journal to report some scientific data about the “tongue in cheek” Darwin Awards in their article titled The Darwin Awards: sex differences in idiotic behaviour. The Darwin Awards were established in 1995, and “honors” those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from […]

The Darwin Awards have sex differences

January 23, 2015 / SGWHC Editorial Staff / Journal Articles

The Darwin Awards: sex differences in idiotic behavior BMJ 2014; 349 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g7094 (Published 11 December 2014) Authors Ben Alexander Daniel Lendrem, student, Dennis William Lendrem, project manager, Institute of Cellular Medicine, Andy Gray, consultant orthopaedic trauma surgeon, John Dudley Isaacs, director, Institute of Cellular Medicine Abstract Sex differences in risk seeking behaviour, emergency hospital […]

Depression in Twins

August 7, 2014 / SGWHC Editorial Staff / Blog

A Study of Opposite-Sex Twins In a recent article in the American Journal of Psychiatry, sex differences in the etiology of major depression were studied in fraternal (sisters and brothers) twins. Women more often reacted to deficiencies in caring relationships and interpersonal loss, while men reacted to failure to achieve expected goals and lowered self-worth. […]

depressed, Depression, psychiatry, Twins