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Psychiatry
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Herzog Hospital's psychiatric division cares for patients of all ages who are suffering from psychiatric disorders, striving to enable them to attain the highest possible level of functioning. It has achieved remarkable success in rehabilitating patients and returning them to the community.
The division comprises three departments and a large community clinic. In addition, the division maintains a system of sheltered housing and hostels to help patients who no longer need to be cared for in a hospital setting to lead a semi-independent life.
A startling new approach to schizophrenia
| Someday it may become routine for schoolchildren with serious behavioural problems to be screened for early symptoms and makers of schizophrenia. Those found at risk will be given naturally occuring amino acids to delay or even prevent the onset of this currently incurable psychiatric disorder. That is the dream of Prof. Uriel Heresco-Levi, head of the psychiatric branch and director of the Schizophrenia Research Program or Jerusalem's Herzog Hospital.
Judy Siegal who interviewed Prof. Heresco about his research: "Millions of patients and their families are waiting breathlessly for treatments stemming from research like his that would offer them significant relief from the curse of schizophrenia". read more |
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