Dedicated to biology, health sciences, and medical research, this category highlights advancements in understanding life processes and improving healthcare
136 Publications
Robert Kaplan
University of Wollongong
Helen Flanders Dunbar, the mother of psychosomatic medicine, was an outstanding pioneer whose life was to end tragically. A brilliant academic career led her to becoming an authority on Danté,…
Pernille Bülow
Independent Scholar
In the Western culture, mental illness is often addressed with antidepressants and therapy sessions. While this strategy may provide relief for some, many do not improve and the effects are…
Pernille Bülow
Independent Scholar
Antidepressants, and in particular selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), hold an important role in our current society. 13.2% of the population in the United States of America are estimated to…
Guido Pisani
University of Buenos Aires
Historically, music has been used to maintain or restore people’s health across different civilizations, characterised by different uses and beliefs. Different methodologies involving music have been applied in pathologies varying…
Pernille Bülow
Independent Scholar
This article is the second of a two-part series on adolescent brain development and function. While the first article discussed the neuroscience of how the adolescent brain changes as it…
Pernille Bülow
Independent Scholar
Around 20% of adolescent suffer from a mental illness, and suicide is the third leading cause of death among this age group. An interesting but disturbing fact is mental illness…
Ruth Rojas
Central University of Ecuador
Surgery in patients with synchronous metastatic disease in colorectal cancer is a great therapeutic option to reduce mortality and increase survival, however, there is no international consensus for the surgical…
Michelle P. Peñaherrera, Carlos A. López
Central University of Ecuador
To determine the relationship between the hospital and the surgeon volume with mortality and morbidity in pancreatic surgery, publications in which the subject of the study were patients undergoing pancreatic…
Pernille Bülow
Independent Scholar
Transgenerational trauma is the transmission of the effects of traumatic experiences through generations via genetic inheritance. In other words, a father’s trauma can change his genetic profile which is inherited…
Angela Gissette Caro Delgado, Magnolia Del Pilar Ballesteros Cabrera
National University of Colombia
In Colombia (South América), suicide care is focused on prevent people to kill themselves. Prevention guidelines have been designed without a sensitive understanding of particular population needs and its social…
