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Face Blindness or Prosopagnosia (Facial Agnosia)

Face blindness or prosopagnosia impairs a person’s ability to recognize faces. A married man can wake up every day not recognizing his wife who he was sleeping with in the same bed for years. This is not a problem with his memory because if he hears her or his wife’s name is mentioned, he knows her pretty well. This poorly understood neurological disorder often comes with other types of recognition impairment, say, place,...

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...

Dementia

Dementia is defined as a loss of mental capability that affects a person’s daily life. Usually affected are the person’s memory and his ability to think and plan (executive functions). Dementia gets worse over time, but the duration this happens differs with each person. Some people lose their skills faster than others. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common type of dementia by far. People tend to have difficulty in...

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...

Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Dementia...

This was highlighted during the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference® 2012 (AAIC® 2012) in Vancouver based on two studies linking mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to serious negative health effects. One of the studies was conducted by Mindy Katz, MPH and colleagues at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in Bronx, New York and it showed that people with dementia is at risk of death 3.26...

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.