A mindful approach to physician self-care.

There has been an increasing awareness of the importance of physician mental health. Several South African studies show a high prevalence of burnout among doctors. Burnout is characterised by three components: exhaustion, depersonalisation, and a sense of a lack of efficacy.

Brief Education Improves Proper Metered-Dose Inhaler Use.

Background: Inhaled β-agonists are the cornerstone of acute treatment for asthma and chronic lung disease. Upon emergency department (ED) discharge, patients optimally receive prescriptions for metered-dose inhalers (MDIs) with instructions on their proper use. Yet prior studies suggest that ED personnel have limited knowledge of proper MDI techniques.

Students left behind: the limitations of university-based health insurance for students with mental illnesses.

A growing trend in college and university health care is the requirement that students demonstrate proof of health insurance prior to enrollment. An increasing number of schools are contracting with insurance companies to provide students with school-based options for health insurance. Although this is advantageous to students in some ways, tying health insurance coverage to school enrollment can leave students vulnerable when they are most in need of help.

BSMac: a MATLAB toolbox implementing a Bayesian spatial model for brain activation and connectivity.

We present a statistical and graphical visualization MATLAB toolbox for the analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data, called the Bayesian Spatial Model for activation and connectivity (BSMac). BSMac simultaneously performs whole-brain activation analyses at the voxel and region of interest (ROI) levels as well as task-related functional connectivity (FC) analyses using a flexible Bayesian modeling framework (Bowman et al., 2008).

Performance-based assessment of functional skills in severe mental illness: results of a large-scale study in China.

Performance-based assessments of everyday living skills have been shown to be highly correlated with cognitive functioning in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, as well as being predictive of deficits in real-world outcomes such as independent living and employment. In this study, we expand our assessments of impairments in everyday living skills to China, evaluating people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression, and comparing their performance to that of healthy controls. Samples of people with schizophrenia (n = 272), bipolar disorder (n = 61), major depression (n = 50), and healthy controls (n = 284) were examined with the Chinese version of the UCSD performance-based assessment, brief version (UPSA-B).