Publications

Books:

1- Psychiatric Notes for Medical Students- 2015

2- Psychiatric Notes for Medical Students-Second Edition-2016

PhD Thesis:

Rate of Schneiderian First Rank Symptoms among Newly Diagnosed Schizophrenic Patients.  A Thesis Submitted to The Scientific Council of Psychiatry at Iraqi Board for Medical Specializations in Partial Fulfillment for The Degree of Fellowship of The Iraqi Board for Medical Specializations, 2007.

Journal Papers 

  1-     Rate of Schneiderian First Rank Symptoms among Newly Diagnosed Schizophrenic Patients. 

  Al-Kindy College  Medical Journal,Vol. 4 , No. 2, 2008.

  2-   Rate of Alcohol and Substance Use Disorders among Journalists in Erbil City, 2008.

 The Arab Journal of Psychiatry, Vol.21, No.1, 2010.Pp 54-64.

  3-   Retrospective Comparison of Weight Gain between Olanzapine- and Risperidone-Treated Patients.

  Zanco  Journal for Medical Sciences, Vol. 14, No.1, 2010. Pp 35-41.

  Published as an ABSTRACT at: Intl Clin Psychopharmacol, Vol 26-e-Supplement: The Abstracts from the International Review of Bipolar Disorders and Winter Workshop of Psychoses Conferences   2009-2011. Sep 2011 – pp: e01-e180.

  4-   Nicotine Dependence among a Group of Iraqi Schizophrenic Patients.

 Iraqi Board Journal for Medical Specializations, Vol.10, No. 1, 2011.Pp 89-94.

 Published as an ABSTRACT at: European Archives of Psychiatry + Clinical Neuroscience, Vol.260. Suppl. 1 – June 2010.

  5-  Assessment of Postpartum Depression among Women Attending Primary Health Care Centers in Erbil City.

  Zanco Journal for Medical Sciences, vol 16(1), April 2012.

  6-  Redefining diagnostic symptoms of depression using RASCH analysis: Testing an item bank suitable for DSM-V and Computer Adaptive Testing.

  Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 45(10)  , Oct 2011.Pp846-52. PMID: 21879815. (doi: 10.3109/00048674.2011.596477)

  Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=%22Rahim%20TA%22%5BAuthor%5D

  7-  Suicidal Ideation among a Group of Kurdish Schizophrenic Patients.

   Middle East Current Psychiatry, 20(4), Oct 2013. Pp 229-34

   Published as an ABSTRACT at: European Archives of Psychiatry + Clinical Neuroscience, Vol.261. Suppl. 1 – Sep 2011.

  8-  The diagnostic validity of five depression scales and clinical judgment against the MINI applied by Psychiatrists in Kurdistan region of Iraq.

  International Psychiatry, 9 (4), Nov 2012, Pp 96-8.

  9- Which is the Optimal Depression Rating Scale to Identify DSM-IV Depression in Schizophrenia? A Diagnostic Validity Comparison of Five Mood Scale .

Arab Journal of Psychiatry, 25(1), May, 2014, Pp 24-32.

  10- Season of Birth Effects on Kurdish Autistic Children.

  Duhok Medical Journal, 8(2), Dec, 2014, Pp 12-9.

  11- Quality of Life among Caregivers of Patients with Schizophrenia in Erbil, Iraq.

  Arab Journal of Psychiatry, 24(2), Nov, 2013, Pp 102-108.

  12-  Mental Health in Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

  Arab Journal of Psychiatry, 24(2), Nov, 2013, Pp 174-178

  13-  Trends of Indigenous Healing among People with Psychiatric Disorders: Comparative Study of Arabic and Kurdish Ethnicities in Iraq.

   Journal of Health and Religion, 54(1), Feb, 2015, Pp 316-26 .  ISSN: 0022-4197;  DOI: 10.1007/s 10943-014-9915-2

   Link: http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s10943-014-9915-2

   14-  Schizophrenia and Faith Healing in Najaf/Iraq

American Journal of Biomedicine, 2(6), Jun, 2014, Pp 702-13.

15-  Rate of Depression among Patients with Schizophrenia

Zanco Journal for Medical Sciences, 20(1), 20(1), Jan, 2016, Pp 1180-5. 

16- Positive and Negative Symptoms Pattern in Schizophrenia

Arab Journal of Psychiatry, 28(1), May, 2017

17- Comparison of depression symptoms between primary depression and secondary-to-schizophrenia depression

International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practices

Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13651501.2017.1324036

Conference Papers 

 1- Rate of Alcohol and Substance Use Disorders among Journalists in Erbil City, 2008.

 18th European Congress of Psychiatry, European Psychiatric Association, Munich, Germany, Feb.27th- Mar 3rd 2010. 

 2-   Retrospective Comparison of Weight Gain between Olanzapine- and Risperidone-Treated Patients.

 The 15th Biennial Winter Workshop in Psychoses, Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 15th-18th 2009.   

 3-   Nicotine Dependence among a Group of Iraqi Schizophrenic Patients.

 3rd Meeting of West European Biological Psychiatric Associations, Berlin, Germany, 2010

 4-  Suicidal Ideation among a Group of Kurdish Schizophrenic Patients.

 3rd European Conference on Schizophrenia Research, Berlin, Germany, 2011.

 5-  The diagnostic validity of five depression scales and clinical judgment against the MINI applied by Psychiatrists in Kurdistan region of Iraq.

 Annual Meeting of World Psychiatric Association, Prague, Czech Republic, 2012.

 6- Which is the Optimal Depression Rating Scale to Identify DSM-IV Depression in Schizophrenia? A Diagnostic Validity Comparison of Five Mood Scale . 

 Annual Meeting of World Psychiatric Association, Prague, Czech Republic, 2012.

7-  Can the Calgary Depression Scale for Schizophrenia be simplified? A diagnostic validity comparison.

17th Biennial Winter workshop on Psychosis, Marrakech, Morocco, 2013.

8- Trends of faith Healing among a Group of Psychotic Patients in Iraq.

17th Biennial Winter workshop on Psychosis, Marrakech, Morocco, 2013

  9- Psychosis and Human Rights in Iraq: Mental Health Policy and its Compatibility with Human Rights.

17th Biennial Winter workshop on Psychosis, Marrakech, Morocco, 2013

10- Season of Birth Effects on Kurdish Autistic Children.

Annual Meeting of World Psychiatric Association, Wien, Austria, 2013

Conference and Workshop Attendance:

     1 - DGPPN Annual Congress. An international conference held by DGPPN, Berlin, Germany, Nov 25th-28th 2015.  

        2- Revitalizing research in Kurdistan. An international conference held by Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, 2011.

        2- Joint Meeting of the Royal College Of Psychiatrists (Middle Eastern Division) and Arab Federation of Psychiatrists, Baghdad, Iraq, Nov 12th- 14th 2009. 

        3- Middle East and North Africa Regional Scientific Multi-National Meeting of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder, Beirut, Lebanon, Nov 6th-7th 2009.

        4- Two days Workshop on RSA (Rapid Situational Analysis) of Substance Misuse and Dependency, hold by UNODC, UNAIDS, and IMC in Amman, Jordan, May 21-22nd 2008.

      5- Second CME Meeting on Psychiatry, Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq, Apr.21-24th 2008.