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1. Inclusion in Community Services and PTSD Symptoms among Adolescents with Attention-Deficit Disorders (ADHD) and Learning Disabilities (LD)

Author

Margalit, Malka, Abramowitz, Moshe Z., Jaffe, Eli, Herbst, Raphael, and Knobler, Haim Y.

Abstract

The inclusion challenge of students with special educational needs does not end in the classroom. Mandatory community services in Israel may present unique challenges and supportive demands from their teachers. The goals of this study were to examine the risks experienced by youth with ADHD who joined rescue workers such as ambulance teams. The predicting role of ADHD as risk factors for developing Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms was investigated as well as the mediating factors of learning difficulties, self-efficacy and social support. The study consisted of 451 high-school students (ages 16-18) who joined ambulance teams as part of their mandatory high-school community services. Their levels of PTSD symptoms, ADHD, LD, Self-efficacy and social support were examined. Following preliminary analysis, a serial mediation model was examined. Initially, the predicting effect of ADHD symptoms on the PTSD symptoms was significant. However, the model demonstrated that the LD, self-efficacy and social support fully mediated the relationship between ADHD and PTSD symptoms. The inclusion of students in these community services requests awareness to risks and their needs. ADHD and LD symptoms may present additional risk factors. But self-efficacy and social support can reduce this risk, emphasising the importance of school climate, teachers' training and educational planning to promote successful inclusion.

Published
2020
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6. Decrease in Suicide Rates after a Change of Policy Reducing Access to Firearms in Adolescents: A Naturalistic Epidemiological Study

Author

Lubin, Gad, Werbeloff, Nomi, Halperin, Demian, Shmushkevitch, Mordechai, Weiser, Mark, and Knobler, Haim Y.

Abstract

The use of firearms is a common means of suicide. We examined the effect of a policy change in the Israeli Defense Forces reducing adolescents' access to firearms on rates of suicide. Following the policy change, suicide rates decreased significantly by 40%. Most of this decrease was due to decrease in suicide using firearms over the weekend. There were no significant changes in rates of suicide during weekdays. Decreasing access to firearms significantly decreases rates of suicide among adolescents. The results of this study illustrate the ability of a relatively simple change in policy to have a major impact on suicide rates.

Published
2010
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8. Advancing paternal age and autism

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Reichenberg, Abraham, Gross, Raz, Weiser, Mark, Bresnahan, Michealine, Silverman, Jeremy, Harlap, Susan, Rabinowitz, Jonathan, Shulman, Cory, Malaspina, Dolores, Lubin, Gad, Knobler, Haim Y., Davidson, Michael, and Susser, Ezra

Subjects
Maternal age -- Research, Paternity -- Research, Autism -- Risk factors, Health, Psychology and mental health
Published
2006

9. Elaboration on premorbid intellectual performance in schizophrenia: premorbid intellectual decline and risk for schizophrenia

Author

Reichenberg, Abraham, Weiser, Mark, Rapp, Michael A., Rabinowitz, Jonathan, Caspi, Asaf, Schmeidler, James, Knobler, Haim Y., Lubin, Gad, Nahon, Daniela, Harvey, Philip D., and Davidson, Michael

Subjects
Schizophrenia -- Risk factors, Schizophrenia -- Development and progression, Intellect -- Research, Intelligence levels -- Research, Health, Psychology and mental health
Published
2005

12. A highly significant association between a COMT haplotype and schizophrenia

Author

Shifman, Sagiv, Bronstein, Michal, Sternfeld, Meira, Pisante-Shalom, Anne, Lev-Lehman, Efrat, Weizman, Avraham, Reznik, Ilya, Spivak, Baruch, Grisaru, Nimrod, Karp, Leon, Schiffer, Richard, Kotler, Moshe, Strous, Rael D., Swartz-Vanetick, Marnina, Knobler, Haim Y., Shinar, Eilat, Beckmann, Jacques S., Yakir, Benjamin, Risch, Neil, Zak, Naomi B., and Darvasi, Ariel

Subjects
Haplotypes -- Psychological aspects, Schizophrenia -- Physiological aspects, Schizophrenia -- Genetic aspects, Biological sciences
Published
2002

19. Jerusalem syndrome

Author

BAR-EL, YAIR, DURST, RIMONA, KATZ, GREGORY, ZISLIN, JOSEF, STRAUSS, ZIVA, and KNOBLER, HAIM Y.

Published
2000

26. Folie a trois among two Soviet-Jewish immigrant families to Israel

Author

Maizel, Shmuel, Knobler, Haim Y., and Herbstein, Ruth

Subjects
Persecution -- Psychological aspects, Immigrants -- Psychological aspects, Jews -- Persecutions, Paranoid disorders -- Case studies, Health
Abstract

Folie a trois (madness for three) is a rare disorder characterized by the shared paranoid delusions of three individuals. Two case reports of folie a trois in two different Russian-Jewish families who had immigrated to Israel in the 1970s are presented. In the first, a 45-year-old single man, living with his elderly parents, was hospitalized after attacking a psychiatrist. He believed that he and his family were being terrorized by his mother's sister. His parents supported his claim, and his mother insisted that her sister was an Israeli agent plotting to kill her son. His mother had been born in a Russian ghetto and at age seven, had witnessed the beheading of her father during the 1919 Civil War. The patient's father was a passive man, who always felt persecuted because he was Jewish. The family led an isolated life, had no friends, and survived on social security. Treatment with antipsychotic medication and separation from his family had no effect on the son's paranoid belief system. In the second case, a Russian-Jewish 39-year-old single woman still living with her parents claimed that a neighbor was pouring poison gas into their apartment. Both parents supported her claim. She was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic, and treated with antipsychotic medication. After she was hospitalized several times, her family moved to a new apartment, but believed that the neighbor had tracked them down and was poisoning them again. Her father had lost his first wife and two children when their home was bombed during World War II. Both her mother and father had suffered a great deal of persecution while living in Russia. The development of folie a trois in these families appears to have been related to past hardships, social isolation, and dependent family relations. Both families seemed unable to adjust to a society in which they were free of hostility and persecution. (Consumer Summary produced by Reliance Medical Information, Inc.)

Published
1990

28. Social and Cognitive Functioning as Risk Factors for Suicide: A Historical-Prospective Cohort Study

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ISRAEL DEFENCE FORCES MEDICAL CORPS JERUSALEM (ISRAEL), Lubin, Gad, Werbeloff, Nomi, Neidorf, Ronit, Fruchter, Eyal, Rotem, Naama, Reichenberg, Abraham, Davidson, Michael, Knobler, Haim Y, Weiser, Mark, ISRAEL DEFENCE FORCES MEDICAL CORPS JERUSALEM (ISRAEL), Lubin, Gad, Werbeloff, Nomi, Neidorf, Ronit, Fruchter, Eyal, Rotem, Naama, Reichenberg, Abraham, Davidson, Michael, Knobler, Haim Y, and Weiser, Mark

Abstract

Objectives- Previous studies have shown that poor cognitive and social functioning are associated with increased risk of suicide. This study aimed to examine the association between social and cognitive functioning in adolescence and later completed suicide. Design- Historical prospective cohort study Setting and Participants- Data from the Israeli Draft Board Register for 756,223 Israeli male adolescents aged 16-17 was linked to a causes-of-death data registry, enabling up to 20 year follow-up (mean 10.4 year) for completed suicide (N=993). Results- Poorer cognitive and social functioning were both associated with increased risk of later suicide (adjusted HR=1.44, 95% CI: 1.18-1.76 and adjusted HR=2.3, 95% CI: 1.53-3.4, respectively). Regardless of their level of social functioning, adolescents who scored one point or more below their siblings on the social functioning scale had increased risk of later suicide (adjusted HR=1.41, 95% CI: 1.09-1.82).Conclusions- In adolescent males, poor cognitive and social abilities are associated with a slightly increased risk of later suicide. Male adolescents who function poorly compared to their brothers are also at increased risk for later suicide. These data underscore the importance of cognition and social abilities in understanding the phenomenon of suicide, and particularly indicate the significance of sibling rivalry in the etiology of suicide. However, because suicide is a rare event and poorer cognitive and social function in the general population is very prevalent, these characteristics are not useful as clinical predictors of suicide., See also ADA578905. Mental Health and Well-Being across the Military Spectrum (Bien- tre et sant mentale dans le milieu militaire). RTO-MP-HFM-205

Published
2011

34. Impaired Reading Comprehension and Mathematical Abilities in Male Adolescents With Average or Above General Intellectual Abilities Are Associated With Comorbid and Future Psychopathology

Author

Weiser, Mark, primary, Reichenberg, Abraham, additional, Rabinowitz, Jonathan, additional, Nahon, Daniella, additional, Kravitz, Efrat, additional, Lubin, Gad, additional, Knobler, Haim Y., additional, Davidson, Michael, additional, and Noy, Shlomo, additional

Published
2007
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40. COMT: A common susceptibility gene in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia

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Shifman, Sagiv, primary, Bronstein, Michal, additional, Sternfeld, Meira, additional, Pisanté, Anne, additional, Weizman, Avraham, additional, Reznik, Ilya, additional, Spivak, Baruch, additional, Grisaru, Nimrod, additional, Karp, Leon, additional, Schiffer, Richard, additional, Kotler, Moshe, additional, Strous, Rael D., additional, Swartz‐Vanetik, Marnina, additional, Knobler, Haim Y., additional, Shinar, Eilat, additional, Yakir, Benjamin, additional, Zak, Naomi B., additional, and Darvasi, Ariel, additional

Published
2004
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42. Disaster Intervention: An Integrative Systemic Perspective for Health and Social Service Professionals.

Author

Laor, Nathaniel, Wolmer, Leo, Friedman, Zeev, Spirman, Smadar, and Knobler, Haim Y.

Subjects
DISASTERS, MEDICAL care, PUBLIC health, SOCIAL services, BASIC needs, TRAUMA centers, CRISIS management, EDUCATION policy
Abstract

The article examines the role of the health and social service professionals during a community's recovery period after disaster. It states that disasters affect community systems such as failure to provide for basic needs, unemployment, limited community sources, major health risks, and poor level of education and health services. Leadership in health services is expected to prefer public-health based services and preparatory and preventive treatment, by setting things like community trauma centers and training of professionals and community leaders.

Published
2005

48. Attitudes towards malingering: a study among general practitioners and mental health officers in the military.

Author

Iancu I, Ben-Yehuda Y, Yazvitzky R, Rosen Y, Knobler HY, Iancu, Iulian, Ben-Yehuda, Yoram, Yazvitzky, Roslan, Rosen, Yitzhak, and Knobler, Haim Y

Abstract

Objective: The authors assessed the attitudes of military physicians and mental health officers regarding the phenomenon of malingering.Method: Questionnaires on attitudes regarding malingering and possible cues indicative of deception were sent to 115 general practitioners (GPs) and mental health officers (MHOs) in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).Results: 91 responses were received--a response rate of 80%. All the respondents claimed that they had seen cases of malingering. They estimated that every fourth soldier is malingering. GPs claimed that they had seen more cases of malingering as compared to MHOs. Those who estimated that malingering is very frequent in the military, also had higher estimates of malingering in their civil work. The most indicative clues of malingering among soldiers were inconsistency, flamboyant complaints, exaggeration of symptoms and accentuation of secondary gain.Conclusions: Among IDF GPs and MHOs, there currently appears to be moderate consensus regarding the frequency of malingering and its characteristic signs. The study provides further support to the notion that malingering is an important clinical phenomenon. We believe that the issue merits further research and scrutiny. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2003

49. Trazodone-induced mania.

Author

Knobler, Haim Y., Itzchaky, Samson, Emanuel, Doron, Mester, Roberto, Maizel, Shmuel, Knobler, H Y, Itzchaky, S, Emanuel, D, Mester, R, and Maizel, S

Subjects
MANIA, AFFECTIVE disorders, BIPOLAR disorder, DEPRESSED persons, SYMPTOMS, PSYCHIATRIC drugs, MENTAL depression, DISEASE complications, TRAZODONE, THERAPEUTICS
Abstract

Two bipolar depressed patients and one unipolar depressed patient developed manic symptoms after receiving trazodone. The symptoms resolved when the treatment was discontinued or reduced. We believe the two bipolar patients are the first cases of this reaction reported in the literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
1986
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