Psychiatry

A patient who was undergoing treatment at the surgery clinic of the Attikon Hospital in western Athens committed suicide by plunging from a fourth floor window, according to announcement on Saturday by the president of the Pan-Hellenic Federation of Public Hospital Workers, Michalis Giannakos. 

Celebrating Athens Pride, the Hellenic American Union (hau.gr) is screening "Cured," an award-winning documentary by Bennett Singer and Patrick Sammon. Released in 2020, "Cured" chronicles the campaign that led to homosexuality being officially struck off the US register of mental disorders in 1973, a watershed moment in the gay rights movement.

A robot that uses artificial intelligence has been developed by a lab at Macedonia University in northern Greece to provide support to autistic children.

The European Commission has warned Slovenia is running ever greater risk of delays in implementing its recovery and resilience plan. It urged the country to adopt decisions on announced reforms without delay.

As part of its "Psi" program on the subject of psychiatry and how it's portrayed in film, the Trianon Cinema (trianon.gr) - in cooperation with the Hellenic Psychiatric Association - is screening Robert Redford's 1980 drama "Ordinary People." Starring Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch and Timothy Hutton, and based on novel by Judith Guest, this was one of the first films signalin

A Slovenian-German-Dutch team of scientists has identified a modification of a protein which plays a role in early-onset frontotemporal dementia, an important insight into the causes of the disease that could lead to the development of new strategies to treat it.

A woman on trial for the murder of her eldest daughter in 2022, will stand trial for the deaths of her youngest two daughters as well, her lawyer has said.

Alexis Kougias also announced that he had requested that his client, Roula Pispirigou, be evaluated by two psychiatrists to determine if she suffers from Munchausen syndrome.

BELGRADE - The 13-year-old boy who killed eight children and a security guard in a shooting spree in a primary school in downtown Belgrade on Wednesday was not under the influence of psychoactive substances when he committed the crime, the lawyer of the boy's family told Tanjug on Thursday.

More than 200 newsrooms, journalists, medical associations, psychotherapists, NGOs and civic figures in Romania have signed a letter of protest against what it called hate speech promoted by Romania TV, concerning the death of the journalist Iulia Marin, 32, at the beginning of this week.

A Turkish neurology professor studying in the United States has received a $41 million government grant for her groundbreaking research on Alzheimer's disease and how it affects people of different ethnic groups.