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Kung Hei Fat Choi!
This year, the above common Chinese new year greeting is particularly meaningful.
The Year of the Dragon seems to be more and more challenging.
As before, at ...
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CME Bulletin & Online Editorial Board 2012
持續醫學進修專訊及網上版編輯委員會
Chief Editor 總編輯：
Dr. WONG Bun Lap, Bernard
黃品立醫生
Board Members 委員會成員：
Dr. CHAN Hau Ngai, Kingsley
陳厚毅醫生
Dr. CHAN Man Kam
陳文岩醫生
Dr. CHAN Yee Shing, Alvin
陳以誠醫生
Dr. CHENG Chi Man
鄭志文醫生
Dr. CHEUNG Hon Ming
張漢明醫生
Dr. CHIU Shing Ping, James
趙承平醫生
Dr. CHOI Kin, Gabriel
蔡 堅醫生
Dr. CHOW Pak Chin
周伯展醫生
Dr. CHU Kin Wah
朱建華醫生
Dr. FONG Chung Yan, Gardian
方頌恩醫生
Dr. FUNG Yee Leung, Wilson
馮宜亮醫生
Dr. HO Chung Ping, MH
何仲平醫生
Dr. HO Hung Kwong, Duncan
何鴻光醫生
Dr. KONG Kam Fu, James
江金富醫生
Dr. KWOK Ka Ki
郭家麒醫生
Dr. KWOK Tin Fook
郭天福醫生
Dr. LAM Tzit Yuen, David
林哲玄醫生
Dr. LEUNG Chi Chiu
梁子超醫生
Dr. LI Siu Lung, Steven
李少隆醫生
Dr. LI Sum Wo, MH
李深和醫生
Dr. POON Tak Lun
潘德鄰醫生
Dr. SHIH Tai Cho, Louis
史泰祖醫生
Dr. TSANG Kin Lun
曾建倫醫生
Dr. TSE Hung Hing
謝鴻興醫生
Dr. WONG Shou Pang, Alexander
王壽鵬醫生
Dr. YEUNG Chiu Fat, Henry
楊超發醫生
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16/02/2012
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Video Games: What You’d Really Rather Not Know
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STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, COLORADO (EGMN) – Internet/video game addiction disorder is a diagnosis that’s not to be found in the Fourth Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Nor after conside...
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15/02/2012
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Perspective– Hypnosis Is a Safe Treatment for Children
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Clinicians have known for quite some time that that hypnosis is an important adjunctive therapy for adults. We’ve also found the technique to be a valuable tool in consultation-liaison psychiatry for ...
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11/02/2012
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Suicide Risk Higher Among Older Schizophrenia Patients
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Men and women aged 50 years and older who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia are at greater risk of suicide, according to research in the February issue of Schizophrenia Research. This was especia...
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09/02/2012
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Facial Affect Recognition’s Role in Aggression Explored
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Deficits in facial affect recognition – the ability to identify and discriminate emotion in the faces of others might significantly contribute to aggressive behavior in psychotic illness, according t...
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09/02/2012
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Teach Insomniacs That Beds Are for Sleeping
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PHOENIX (EGMN) –Reducing bedtime stimulation and, oddly enough, restricting sleep both have powerful, relatively fast effects on insomnia, especially when used in tandem.Among cognitive-behavioral the...
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08/02/2012
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Insight Improves Quality of Life in Patients With Schizophrenia
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Insight into illness, marital status, and employment were the most important factors associated with higher quality of life in patients with schizophrenia, according to a study in Progress in Neuro-Ps...
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07/02/2012
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Melatonin May Normalize Night Owl Sleep Schedules
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PHOENIX (EGMN) – When patients’ sleep cycles are out of synch with the rest of the world, melatonin and light therapy can help. But for night owls – people who fall asleep at 5 a.m. and awake at noon,...
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07/02/2012
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Cognitive Therapy Benefits Low-Functioning Patients With Schizophrenia
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Specially adapted cognitive therapy improved global function, motivation, and positive symptoms in low-functioning patients who had schizophrenia and significant cognitive impairment, according to a s...
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07/02/2012
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Induced Abortion Does Not Affect Psychiatric Disorder Recurrence
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Undergoing a first-trimester induced abortion does not raise the risk of readmission among women with a history of psychiatric hospitalization, according to a report in the February issue of the Archi...
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02/02/2012
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Memory Declines Years Before Stroke Strikes
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NEW ORLEANS (EGMN) –Memory is already impaired years before a stroke occurs, declining most rapidly in people destined to suffer a fatal stroke, according to a population-based study of more than 11,0...
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02/02/2012
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Most New ADHD Patients Don’t Need Cardiac Testing
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NEW YORK (EGMN) – An electroencephalogram probably isn’t necessary for most youngsters starting a medication for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.Some easy screening questions should be enough...
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01/02/2012
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Antipsychotics Add Metabolic Woes to Young Patients’ Problems
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NEW YORK (EGMN) – With new U.S. national data finding that 17% of the country’s youngsters are obese, physicians who treat children with antipsychotics face even tougher medication choices.Because man...
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31/01/2012
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Don’t Dally on SSRI Dosing for Anxious Kids
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NEW YORK (EGMN) – “Start low, go slow” is the typical mantra of child psychopharmacology, but it might do an enormous disservice to children with anxiety disorders.While antidepressants can really hel...
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25/01/2012
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Brain Deficits Not Evident in Early Psychosis
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The characteristic structural and functional brain deficits associated with chronic schizophrenia do not appear to be fully present in early psychosis patients, a report published in the Jan. 15 issue...
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25/01/2012
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Perspective: When Your Patient With Depression Has a Family
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Julie Totten was 24 years old when her brother Mark took his life. Shortly after, she helped her father, who had been suffering from undiagnosed depression all his life, get treated for the illness. I...
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25/01/2012
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School Staff Can Aid Treatment of Psychotic Children
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School staff can play an important role in helping children with psychotic disorders live more normal lives, according to Dr. Jonathan R. Stevens and Dr. Jefferson B. Prince.“School interventions ofte...
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24/01/2012
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Depressive Symptoms Common, Neglected in Early Schizophrenia
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Depressive symptoms are common and tend to be neglected in patients with first episode schizophrenia spectrum disorders, according to a medical file audit involving records for more than 400 patients....
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24/01/2012
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Perspective – Re-Evaluating the Risk for PPHN
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Over the last several years, accumulating data on the reproductive safety of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) have included multiple reports evaluating the risks of teratogenicity, poor...
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24/01/2012
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Cognitive Engagement Associated With Less of an Alzheimer’s Protein
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Cognitively stimulating activity, particularly in early and midlife, is associated with lower brain deposition of the major protein constituent of amyloid plaques in Alzheimer’s disease later in life,...
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23/01/2012
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Coexisting Conditions May Explain Change in Autism Diagnosis
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Children currently diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder are more likely to have coexisting psychiatric or neurodevelopmental conditions than are children with a past but not current diagnosis, a...
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