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Exercise for Mental Health

Health and wellness is increasingly getting popular for many people, not just the young and active, but even for the elderly. The surge in health food supplements, healthy diet concoctions, various exercise programs like pilates, aerobics, and most recently zumba fitness are clear indications that more people are into healthy living nowadays. For a person’s body to be able to work and function properly, regular exercise...

Learning and Improving Self-Confidence

Self-confidence is important in almost every aspect of a person’s life and yet everybody seems to be struggling to develop it. Without it, success will be elusive. Self-confidence seen in people who have it inspires confidence in others – peers, bosses, customers, and friends. A person can find success when he or she earns the confidence of other people. There are two main features that contribute to self-confidence:...

Learning and Practicing Self Compassion

Self-compassion is giving yourself the treatment you would normally give to a dear friend. Feeling compassionate about yourself has no difference in feeling compassionate for others. In order to be compassionate, you have to notice that they, the other people, are suffering. Only if you appreciate and take a better look at the difficult situations of other people can you show compassion to that person. In much the same way,...

The Facts about Stress

Every person experiences stress at some point in time. Some tolerate and manage it well, some cannot. Because people have different thresholds for stress and use different coping mechanisms, the impact of stress on their physical and mental well-being varies. Everyone’s life is faced with problems, challenges, hassles, and pressures. No one is exempted from that. For some, these experiences help them respond well to...

Sleep Disorders and ADHD

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD in children may manifest symptoms that are similar to sleep disorders. Some of the shared symptoms are : restlessness, over-active behavior and lack of focus or attention. Children apparently have the opposite reaction or response when sleep is disrupted. While adults with sleep problems tend to become less active and weak, children are the opposite. They become hyperactive to...

Sleep Hygiene

People have different reasons for not getting enough sleep – stress with school, family problems, or work-related issues. Other times, lack of sleep is caused by a sleep disorder, which breaks and disrupts sleep in many ways. And it has significant negative effects on one’s quality of life and health. Sleep deprivation can also put one at risk for serious medical problems. Identifying the causes of sleeplessness and...

Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI)

Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is characterized by memory loss which has still not significantly affected daily functioning of a person. Memory loss may be minimal to mild and not easily noticeable to the individual yet. It is a transitional period between the expected deterioration of cognitive abilities of normal aging and the more obvious decline of dementia. A person with MCI may know that his memory or mental function...

Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) Affects Social Int...

Two studies showing death risk doubled for people with Alzheimer’s disease or amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI) were presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Vancouver on July 16, 2012. Studies were conducted by Jeffrey Kaye, MD and colleagues at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland and both showed that people with MCI withdraw and isolate themselves as the condition...

Who Is Dr. DAL

Dr. Dalkilic (Dr. Dal) has been a Diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology since 2000 and has been practicing psychiatry in New Jersey and the Greater Philadelphia area. He specializes in the treatment of eating, anxiety, bipolar and depressive disorders, as well as psychopharmacology. He has been a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University and an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Temple University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Dal graduated from Psychiatry Residency Training Program of Yale University in 1999 and is a graduate of Marmara University School of Medicine, Istanbul. He began his MPH training at Yale University School of Public Health and obtained his MPH degree from George Washington University, School of Public Health and Health Services, in 2002. He was selected and participated in the 2008 Future Leaders in Psychiatry Program organized by Emory University, while practicing psychiatry at Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Medicine, as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (2005-2009).

Dr. Dal has presented at the national meetings of the American Psychiatric Association and has been an invited speaker at international conferences on psychiatry. He has published in peer reviewed journals, taught and trained psychiatry residents and medical students, and conducted clinical medication trials. He has treated hundreds of individuals with various psychiatric conditions and consulted on complex and treatment resistant cases.

Dr. Dal also publishes useful and insightful information for readers at: . He has the knowledge, expertise, and experience necessary to assess and address a broad spectrum of psychiatric conditions, developing and implementing comprehensive treatment plans to help his clients and their families. Dr. Dal aims to provide evidence based, personalized, and high quality healthcare. He believes a physician should constantly strive to improve the physical, mental, social, and spiritual health and well-being of his clients.