Yearly Archives: 2010

Quality psychiatric care is needed

Quality psychiatric care is needed China Daily article mirrored on Xinhua

Posted in Psychiatry/Neurology |

China Daily Op-ed: Quality psychiatric care is needed – not only in China

Cross-posted from Chinadaily.com July 5, 2010: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2010-07/05/content_10056660.htm Quality psychiatric care is neededOp-Ed By Dr. Maurice Preter (China Daily)Updated: 2010-07-05 08:00 The recent spate of attacks on schoolchildren and the workers’ suicides at the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen have again highlighted … Continue reading

Posted in Psychiatry/Neurology |

Scientists Spot Gene Variants That Predict Longevity Grouping determined whether person lived to 100 with 77% accuracy

http://consumer.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=640714

Posted in Aging |

A significant increase in polypharmacy involving antidepressant and antipsychotic medications.

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2010 Jan;67(1):26-36. National trends in psychotropic medication polypharmacy in office-based psychiatry. Mojtabai R, Olfson M. Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Room 797, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. rmojtaba@jhsph.edu Abstract … Continue reading

Posted in Psychiatry/Neurology |

An Occupational Neurosis: A Psychoanalytic Case History of a Rabbi

An Occupational Neurosis: A Psychoanalytic Case History of a Rabbi Maya Balakirsky Katz (2010). AJS Review, Volume 34, Issue 01, Apr 2010 pp 1-31 http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=7629776

Posted in Forensic Neuropsychiatry, Psychiatry/Neurology |
Maurice Preter, MD

Maurice Preter, MD is a European and U.S. educated psychiatrist, psychotherapist, psychopharmacologist, neurologist, and medical-legal expert in private practice in Manhattan. He is also the principal of Fifth Avenue Concierge Medicine, PLLC, a medical concierge service and health advisory for select individuals and families.