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From selective to highly selective SSRIs: a comparison of the antinociceptive properties of fluoxetine, fluvoxamine, citalopram and escitalopramShaul Schreiber
Department of Psychiatry, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, and Tel Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine, 6, Weizman St, Tel Aviv 64239, Israel
Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 16:464-8. 2006..p. This difference between citalopram and escitalopram calls for further studies in order to assess the various differences between the two enantiomers of citalopram, and between each enantiomer and the racemic mixture...- Holocaust survivors coping with open heart surgery decades later: posttraumatic symptoms and quality of lifeShaul Schreiber
Department of Psychiatry, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv 64239, Israel
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 26:443-52. 2004..We assessed the association between the impact of Holocaust experience (posttraumatic symptoms) and QoL of patients before and after an open heart surgery... - Long-lasting sleep patterns of adult patients with minor traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and non-mTBI subjectsShaul Schreiber
Department of Psychiatry, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Tel Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv 64239, Israel
Sleep Med 9:481-7. 2008..Sleep disturbance is a common subjective complaint of minor traumatic brain-injured (mTBI) patients, but little is known about the characteristics of sleep disturbance in adults years after the injury... - Right prefrontal rTMS treatment for refractory auditory command hallucinations - a neuroSPECT assisted case studyShaul Schreiber
Department of Psychiatry, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Tel Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine, 6 Weismann Street, IL 64239 Tel Aviv, Israel
Psychiatry Res 116:113-7. 2002..We conclude that right prefrontal rTMS may induce a general clinical improvement of schizophrenic brain function, without directly influencing the mechanism involved in auditory command hallucinations... - Hospital preparedness for possible nonconventional casualties: an Israeli experienceShaul Schreiber
Department of Psychiatry, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Weizmann Street 6, Tel Aviv, Israel
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 26:359-66. 2004..Issues remain to be addressed in the future. We believe that collaboration and sharing of knowledge, information, and expertise beyond the medical realm is imperative in assisting hospitals to expedite appropriate preparedness programs... 
Gonadal steroids and affective symptoms during in vitro fertilization: implication for reproductive mood disordersMiki Bloch
Department of Psychiatry, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
Psychoneuroendocrinology 36:790-6. 2011..This finding has implications on the treatment of GS-related mood disorders...- Documented poor sleep among methadone-maintained patients is associated with chronic pain and benzodiazepine abuse, but not with methadone doseEinat Peles
Dr Miriam and Sheldon G Adelson Clinic for Drug Abuse Treatment and Research, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 19:581-8. 2009..Sleep evaluation and treatment should address these two prevalent conditions in order to improve MMT patients' quality of sleep (and of life) and overall treatment outcome... - The antinociceptive effect of zolpidem and zopiclone in miceChaim G Pick
Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel
Pharmacol Biochem Behav 81:417-23. 2005..e. elderly) and for possible drug-drug interactions, in order to minimize possible hazards and maximize clinical beneficial effects of its use for sleep... - Pathological gambling and obsessive compulsive disorder among methadone maintenance treatment patientsEinat Peles
Dr Miriam and Sheldon G Adelson Clinic for Drug Abuse, Treatment and Research, Tel Aviv, Israel
J Addict Dis 28:199-207. 2009..9%) in the sample, possibly because the clinic studied is of a higher severity than that accepted to the methadone maintenance treatment clinics in the community... - Association between improvement in depression, reduced benzodiazepine (BDZ) abuse, and increased psychotropic medication use in methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) patientsShaul Schreiber
Dr Miriam and Sheldon G Adelson Clinic for Drug Abuse, Treatment and Research, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, 1 Henrietta Szold St, Tel Aviv 64924, Israel
Drug Alcohol Depend 92:79-85. 2008..0005). Predictors for being depressed at follow-up were pre-existing depression only. Stopping BDZ abuse and starting psychotropic treatment was associated with a reduction of depressive symptoms among MMT patients... - Injured civilian survivors of suicide bomb attacks: from partial PTSD to recovery or to traumatisation. Where is the turning point?Ornah T Dolberg
Department of Psychiatry, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
World J Biol Psychiatry 11:344-51. 2010..To assess the short- (3-9 months) and medium-term (30 months) occurrence and severity of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in civilian survivors of suicide bombing terrorist attacks... - Pathological gambling in methadone maintenance clinics where gambling is legal versus illegalEinat Peles
Dr Miriam and Sheldon G Adelson Clinic for Drug Abuse, Treatment and Research, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
Am J Orthopsychiatry 80:311-6. 2010..Older age on admission to MMT, and male gender characterized PG in different MMT clinics, independent of the legal status of gambling. Low current PG rates for patients in both MMT clinics suggest that legality may not be relevant... - Melatonin for perceived sleep disturbances associated with benzodiazepine withdrawal among patients in methadone maintenance treatment: a double-blind randomized clinical trialEinat Peles
Dr Miriam and Sheldon G Adelson Clinic for Drug Abuse, Treatment and Research, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
Addiction 102:1947-53. 2007..To evaluate the effectiveness of melatonin in attenuating sleep difficulties during benzodiazepine (BDZ) withdrawal... - The antinociceptive properties of reboxetine in acute painShaul Schreiber
Dept of Psychiatry, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 19:735-9. 2009..However, further research is needed in order to establish its possible use alone or in combination with other antidepressants or analgesics in the amelioration of chronic pain disorders... - Primary intervention for memory structuring and meaning acquisition (PIMSMA): study of a mental health first-aid intervention in the ED with injured survivors of suicide bombing attacksShaul Schreiber
Department of Psychiatry, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel
Am J Disaster Med 2:307-20. 2007.... - Low risk for hepatitis C seroconversion in methadone maintenance treatmentEinat Peles
Tel Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel
J Addict Med 5:214-20. 2011..To study the risk factors for seroconversion to hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection since admission to methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) and to characterize the seronegative admitted group... - The differential effect of methadone dose and of chronic pain on pain perception of former heroin addicts receiving methadone maintenance treatmentEinat Peles
Dr Miriam and Sheldon G Adelson Clinic for Drug Abuse, Treatment and Research, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Tel Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel
J Pain 12:41-50. 2011..Studying the alteration in pain perception in these subjects may contribute to understanding the high rates of chronic pain among them and may promote better treatment... - The antinociceptive effect of amisulpride in mice is mediated through opioid mechanismsTal Weizman
Department of Psychiatry, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Tel-Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv 64239, Israel
Eur J Pharmacol 478:155-9. 2003..Based on previous studies with risperidone, clozapine and olanzapine we tend to attribute this global interaction with the opioid system to amisulpride's action at the dopamine D2 receptor sites... - Women's psychological profile and psychiatric diagnoses and the outcome of in vitro fertilization: is there an association?Inbar Zaig
Department of Psychiatry, Tel Aviv Souraski Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
Arch Womens Ment Health 15:353-9. 2012..Fertility treatment using the IVF paradigm may bypass this negative effect, resulting in high success rates. This hypothesis should be further explored... - The antinociceptive effect of mirtazapine in mice is mediated through serotonergic, noradrenergic and opioid mechanismsShaul Schreiber
Department of Psychiatry, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Brain Res Bull 58:601-5. 2002..However, further research is needed in order to establish both the exact clinical indications and the effective doses of mirtazapine when prescribed for pain... - Association of OCD with a history of traumatic events among patients in methadone maintenance treatmentEinat Peles
Dr Miriam and Sheldon G Adelson Clinic for Drug Abuse, Treatment and Research, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
CNS Spectr 14:547-54. 2009..We studied the relationship between obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and lifetime history of any traumatic events among methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) patients... - Depression in methadone maintenance treatment patients: rate and risk factorsEinat Peles
Dr Miriam and Sheldon G Adelson Clinic for Drug Abuse, Treatment and Research, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
J Affect Disord 99:213-20. 2007..Depression is widely prevalent among former heroin addicts in methadone maintenance treatment (MMT). The risk factors for depression among MMT patients that have not been well characterized, was studied... - Earning "take-home" privileges and long-term outcome in a methadone maintenance treatment programEinat Peles
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
J Addict Med 5:92-8. 2011.... - No change of sleep after 6 and 12 months of methadone maintenance treatmentEinat Peles
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
J Addict Med 5:141-7. 2011..To determine whether the methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) affects sleep... - Duration of methadone maintenance treatment during pregnancy and pregnancy outcome parameters in women with opiate addictionEinat Peles
Adelson Clinic for Drug Abuse, Treatment and Research, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, 1 Henrietta Szold Street, Tel Aviv 64924, Israel
J Addict Med 6:18-23. 2012..We studied the effect of the timing of starting MMT and of MMT related drug abstinence on the outcome of newborns of former and current opiate-addicted pregnant women... - Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder among former heroin addicts currently in methadone maintenance treatmentEinat Peles
Dr Miriam and Sheldon G Adelson Clinic for Drug Abuse, Treatment and Research, Tel Aviv, Israel
Psychopathology 45:327-33. 2012.... - The effect of sertraline add-on to brief dynamic psychotherapy for the treatment of postpartum depression: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled studyMiki Bloch
Department of Psychiatry, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, 6 Weizman Str, Tel Aviv, Israel
J Clin Psychiatry 73:235-41. 2012..We hypothesized that psychotherapy and concurrent antidepressant treatment would be more effective than psychotherapy alone in the treatment of postpartum depression... - Acetazolamide-enhanced neuroSPECT scan reveals functional impairment after minimal traumatic brain injury not otherwise discernibleGavriel Barkai
Department of Psychiatry, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Tel Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine, 6 Weizmann St, Tel Aviv 64239, Israel
Psychiatry Res 132:279-83. 2004..Valproate treatment was associated with increased prefrontal perfusion concomitant with clinical improvement and abolished response to acetazolamide challenge... - Quantitative somatosensory testing of subjects with chronic post-traumatic headache: implications on its mechanismsRuth Defrin
Dept of Physical Therapy, School of Allied Health Professions, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Eur J Pain 14:924-31. 2010..Despite the relatively high prevalence of chronic post-traumatic headache (CPTHA) and its enormous effect on the already poor quality of life of subjects with THI, its mechanisms has not been studied in depth... - Psychiatric comorbidity of patients on methadone maintenance treatment with a history of sexual abuseEinat Peles
Dr Miriam and Sheldon G Adelson Clinic for Drug Abuse Treatment and Research, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, 1 Henrietta Szold Street, 64924 Tel Aviv, Israel Department of Psychiatry, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel Electronic address
Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 22:883-91. 2012..Those with cPTSD were characterized by more negative life events, higher dissociation scores, and assaults by a family member. We conclude that sexually abused MMT patients should be screened for clinical OCD... - Drug addiction from a psychodynamic perspective: methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) as transitional phenomenaDavid Potik
Adelson Clinic for Drug Abuse Treatment and Research, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
Psychol Psychother 80:311-25. 2007.... - Association between terror attacks and suicide attemptsTal Weizman
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Psychiatric Division, Tel Aviv, Israel
Suicide Life Threat Behav 39:425-32. 2009..It is suggested that suicide attempts as a phenomena should be seen as a product of a multivariate model, in which the social context plays a role as well... - Venlafaxine and mirtazapine: different mechanisms of antidepressant action, common opioid-mediated antinociceptive effects--a possible opioid involvement in severe depression?Shaul Schreiber
Department of Psychiatry, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine, Israel
J Mol Neurosci 18:143-9. 2002..This opioid profile of the two drugs may be one of the explanations to their efficacy in severe depression, unlike the SSRIs and other antidepressants which lack opioid activity... - Factors predicting retention in treatment: 10-year experience of a methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) clinic in IsraelEinat Peles
Dr Miriam and Sheldon G Adelson Clinic for Drug Abuse, Treatment and Research, Tel Aviv Elias Sourasky Medical Center, 6 Weizman Street, 64239 Tel Aviv, Israel
Drug Alcohol Depend 82:211-7. 2006..A protocol favoring higher methadone dosage as appropriate is recommended... - [Psychiatric examination performed by phone to determine guardianship--is it legally valid?]Elieser Feldinger
Psychiatric Department, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv
Harefuah 143:710-2, 767. 2004..To the best of our knowledge, the court's decision to appoint a legal guardian based on a telephone conversation is a precedent... - Significantly higher methadone dose for methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) patients with chronic painEinat Peles
The Dr Miriam and Sheldon G Adelson Clinic for Drug Abuse, Treatment and Research, Tel Aviv Elias Sourasky Medical Center, 1 Henrietta Szold Street, Tel Aviv 64924, Israel
Pain 113:340-6. 2005.... - 15-Year survival and retention of patients in a general hospital-affiliated methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) center in IsraelEinat Peles
Dr Miriam and Sheldon G Adelson Clinic for Drug Abuse, Treatment and Research, 1 Henrietta Szold Street, Tel Aviv 64924, Israel
Drug Alcohol Depend 107:141-8. 2010..Benzodiazepine abuse reduced both retention and survival, emphasizing the high priority that should be given to stopping it... - The psychological profile and affective response of women diagnosed with unexplained infertility undergoing in vitro fertilizationGabi Aisenberg Romano
Department of Psychiatry, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, 6 Weizman Str, Tel Aviv, Israel
Arch Womens Ment Health 15:403-11. 2012..The results of this study do not support the possibility that personality traits are involved in the pathophysiology of unexplained infertility... - Long waiting period to enter methadone maintenance treatment: relation to patient characteristics and outcomeEinat Peles
Dr Miriam and Sheldon G Adelson Clinic for Drug Abuse, Treatment and Research, Tel Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel einatp tasmc health gov il
Eur Addict Res 18:149-52. 2012..The waiting list patient group was characterized by older age and self-referral - two known independent predictors of better retention that were attributed to their superior retention rate... - Psychotropic medication from an object relations theory perspective: an analysis of vignettes from group psychotherapyDana Shindel Fain
Department of Psychiatry, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
Int J Group Psychother 58:303-26. 2008..Vignettes from the group sessions illustrate the way in which discussing medication advances group process... - The intriguing effects of ecstasy (MDMA) on cognitive function in mice subjected to a minimal traumatic brain injury (mTBI)Shahaf Edut
Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 214:877-89. 2011..Minimal traumatic brain injury (mTBI) a common consequence of MVAs-produces short- and long-term physical, cognitive, and emotional impairments... - CNS infection in childhood does not confer risk for later schizophrenia: a case-control studyMark Weiser
Department of Psychiatry, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
Schizophr Res 124:231-5. 2010..We sought to contribute to this debate by linking data on persons who had been hospitalized for meningitis as children, with a National Psychiatric Hospitalization Registry... - Differential effects of topiramate in patients with traumatic brain injury and obesity--a case seriesOrnah T Dolberg
Department of Psychiatry, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 179:838-45. 2005..Topiramate is an antiepileptic drug known to have effects on weight. In order to use this as a tool to treat eating disorders, it is useful to examine whether these effects can be predicted in certain patients... - The influence of electroconvulsive therapy on pain threshold and pain tolerance in major depression patients before, during and after treatmentShaul Schreiber
Department of Psychiatry, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Eur J Pain 7:419-24. 2003..However, a more significant conclusion is that the increase of the PPThr noted early during ECT treatment may serve as an early outcome possible detector of ECT efficacy in depressed patients... - Variables associated with perceived sleep disorders in methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) patientsEinat Peles
Dr Miriam and Sheldon G Adelson Clinic for Drug Abuse, Treatment and Research, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, 6 Weizmann Street, Tel Aviv 64239, Israel
Drug Alcohol Depend 82:103-10. 2006..We concluded that sleep disorders should be evaluated and treated among MMT patients, particularly in those with psychiatric disorders, benzodiazepine abuse, chronic pain and high methadone dose... - GnRH-agonist induced depressive and anxiety symptoms during in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer cyclesMiki Bloch
Department of Psychiatry, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
Fertil Steril 95:307-9. 2011.... - New onset heightened interest or drive for gambling, shopping, eating or sexual activity in patients with Parkinson's disease: the role of dopamine agonist treatment and age at motor symptoms onsetNir Giladi
Movement Disorders Unit and Parkinson Centre, Department of Neurology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Centre, Tel Aviv, Israel
J Psychopharmacol 21:501-6. 2007..Age, gender and duration of treatment with DAs have an independent and additive effect on the risk to develop such behavioural changes. Patients should be informed about potential treatment-associated behavioural changes... - Tricyclic antidepressants abuse, with or without benzodiazepines abuse, in former heroin addicts currently in methadone maintenance treatment (MMT)Einat Peles
Dr Miriam and Sheldon G Adelson Clinic for Drug Abuse, Treatment and Research, Israel
Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 18:188-93. 2008..To measure suspected abuse of the tricyclic antidepressant amitriptyline among methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) patients in Israel, we studied cross-sectionally, all our 303 patients (February, 2007)... - Three and six-month outcome following courses of either ECT or rTMS in a population of severely depressed individuals--preliminary reportPinhas N Dannon
Psychiatry Division, ECT-TMS Unit, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, 52621 Tel Hashomer, Israel
Biol Psychiatry 51:687-90. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: Patients treated with rTMS do as well as those treated with ECT at the 3- and 6-month follow-up points. These data suggest that the clinical gains obtained with rTMS last at least as long as those obtained with ECT... - Morphine protects for head trauma induced cognitive deficits in miceOfer Zohar
Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute, Johns Hopkins University Montgomery County Campus, 9601 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Neurosci Lett 394:239-42. 2006..Although the exact nature of opioid neuroprotection is still unknown, its elucidation may lead to the much-needed treatment for traumatic brain injury... - A randomized controlled comparison of electroconvulsive therapy and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in severe and resistant nonpsychotic major depressionLeon Grunhaus
Psychiatry Division and the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Laboratory at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
Biol Psychiatry 53:324-31. 2003..This study is particularly relevant because it suggests that rTMS and ECT reach similar results in nonpsychotic major depressive disorder... - Relief of serotonin selective reuptake inhibitor induced sexual dysfunction with low-dose mianserin in patients with traumatic brain injuryOrnah T Dolberg
Division of Psychiatry, Sheba Medical Center, Psychiatric Day Hospital, Israel
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 161:404-7. 2002.... - Apoptotic changes in the cortex and hippocampus following minimal brain trauma in miceVadim Tashlykov
Laboratory of Anesthesia, Pain and Neural Research, Bruce Rapaport Medical Faculty, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Brain Res 1130:197-205. 2007....