https://drjudithguedalia.com/ 2017-07-01T12:00:00Z Essays, peer-reviewed publications, and Jewish-studies writings of Dr. Judith Sandra Bendheim Guedalia (1945–2018), Director of the Neuropsychology Unit at Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem. Dr. Judith S.B. Guedalia © Estate of Judith S.B. Guedalia. All article texts are the property of their original publishers where applicable. https://drjudithguedalia.com/article/9002-apparent-diffusion-coefficient-value-changes-and-clinical-correlation-in-90-case.html 2017-07-01T12:00:00Z 2017-07-01T12:00:00Z

Abstract: Cytomegalovirus is the leading intrauterine infection. Fetal MR imaging is an accepted tool for fetal brain evaluation, yet it still lacks the ability to accurately predict the extent of the neurodevelopmental impairment, especially in fetal MR imaging scans with unremarkable findings. Our hypothesis was…

https://drjudithguedalia.com/article/20151113-until-after-the-holidays.html 2015-11-13T12:00:00Z 2015-11-13T12:00:00Z

NOVEMBER 13, 2015 | OLAM | 13 I n Israel there is an expression: “Ad Achrai HaChagim” – which literally means “until after the major holi - days” or after Simchat Torah when we greet people with the salutation: “Horef Tov/Good Winter” (Gut Vinter in Yiddish and German). It is after then that life returns to normal,…

https://drjudithguedalia.com/article/9104-odysseus-and-jonah-help-during-a-fateful-journey.html 2015-09-18T12:00:00Z 2015-09-18T12:00:00Z

Confirms: Stage IV B Uterine cancer diagnosed ~2010 (5 years before September 2015); seventh open-belly incision including four caesarian sections; was 'over 65' in Sept 2015 (born ~1950 or earlier).

https://drjudithguedalia.com/article/9103-this-is-no-laughing-matter-but-we-are-in-chodesh-av.html 2015-08-03T12:00:00Z 2015-08-03T12:00:00Z

Confirms endometrial cancer diagnosis and surgical complications.

https://drjudithguedalia.com/article/9102-communication-disorders-or-what-happened-to-just-talking.html 2014-07-18T12:00:00Z 2014-07-18T12:00:00Z

Mentions 'lived in Israel for the past thirty years' → confirms Israel from ~1984. References cheder rebbe terminology.

https://drjudithguedalia.com/article/9105-the-mourning-of-hope-seeking-to-accommodate-light-in-darkness.html 2013-12-26T12:00:00Z 2013-12-26T12:00:00Z

Co-authored with 'Chaim K.' (pseudonym per book's editorial note).

https://drjudithguedalia.com/article/20121128-this-years-book-of-life-isnt-sealed-yet.html 2012-11-28T12:00:00Z 2012-11-28T12:00:00Z

Mind Body and Soul This Year’s Book of Life Isn’t Sealed Yet.. G’Mar Tov November 28th, 2012 Dr. Judith Guedalia © 2012 Director, Neuropsychology Unit; Chief Psychologist; Shaare Zedek Medical Center; Licensed Supervisor and Specialist in Medical, Rehabilitation, and Developmental Psychology; EMDR Certified…

https://drjudithguedalia.com/article/9101-sukkot-the-gps-and-mindbody-interventions.html 2012-09-27T12:00:00Z 2012-09-27T12:00:00Z

References PET scan and 'serious case of cancer'. Mentions GPS introduced 1973 / civilian use 1980s.

https://drjudithguedalia.com/article/20120920-sukkot-the-gps-and-mindbody-interventions.html 2012-09-20T12:00:00Z 2012-09-20T12:00:00Z

Jewish Press Sukkot, the GPS and Mind/Body Interventions Dr. Judith Guedalia© 2012 Director, Neuropsychology Unit; Chief Psychologist; Shaare Zedek Medical Center; Licensed Supervisor and Specialist in Medical, Rehabilitation, and Developmental Psychology; EMDR Certified Practitioner: Supervisor; Certified ADOS…

https://drjudithguedalia.com/article/20110727-the-chofetz-chaims-observations-guide-us-today.html 2011-07-27T12:00:00Z 2011-07-27T12:00:00Z

*By: *Dr. Judith Guedalia, (c) July 2011 Date: Wednesday, July 27 2011 The abduction and murder of Leiby z"l, should put all *naarishkeit,*frivolity, in its place. The unspeakable awfulness and its juxtaposition to the Fast of the 17th of Tammuz, the beginning of the Roman siege of Jerusalem which preceded the Great…

https://drjudithguedalia.com/article/0215-any-port-in-a-storm-well-maybe-not-any.html 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The doctor gave me a list of blood tests I needed to take, but said: "We'll start the chemo next week and you'll get the tests all done in a week of two." That was on a Thursday during the last two weeks of August when everyone world over (or so it felt), is on vacation. If you are Israeli that meant you were in…

https://drjudithguedalia.com/article/0214-the-appointment-dress.html 2011-04-18T00:00:00Z 2011-04-18T00:00:00Z

It wasn't until I entered high school that I had a rude awakening. Not everyone grew up like I did and not everyone could relate to what I thought was normal. You see, I had been with the same group of people since age 3, and they just accepted what "came" with being me. Let me explain. One major pre-holiday…

https://drjudithguedalia.com/article/0213-purim-2011-cheering-on-our-warriorettes-and-warriors.html 2011-03-09T00:00:00Z 2011-03-09T00:00:00Z

I know I'm treading on thin ice here but I can't help but see certain parallels between what's happening all around us (the hair raising events in the Middle East) and the events of Purim so many years ago. We have just passed through Adar Alef, and comparisons between the many who rose against us, the small Jewish…

https://drjudithguedalia.com/article/0212-no-time-to-do-anything-but-get-into-trouble-wheels-of-fortune.html 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Yossi (an amalgam of many cases I have seen) has been having difficulties with the police. Yossi lives on a yishuv . A yishuv is a smaller suburban community that was formed on vacant land, either in-or outside the Green Line. For the most part they were built in the halcyon days after the Six-Day War and an…

https://drjudithguedalia.com/article/20101215-call-me-crazy.html 2010-12-15T12:00:00Z 2010-12-15T12:00:00Z

By: Dr. Judith Guedalia © Dec. 2010 Date: Wednesday, December 15 2010 There are some times when, even after thirty years of being in the mental health field, I am left scratching my head and muttering to myself - call me crazy, but this is the nutsiest experience I have had. Each time it happens, and I must say that…

https://drjudithguedalia.com/article/0211-love-with-respect.html 2010-11-04T00:00:00Z 2010-11-04T00:00:00Z

"In the nine years since the car hit me, leaving me at 14 years of age a quadriplegic on a respirator, the options available to me for work, narrowed dramatically. You see the only part of my anatomy that I can manipulate is my face. "This being the case, there are very few vocations for which I can apply. One of the…

https://drjudithguedalia.com/article/0210-elokai-neshama-the-miracle-of-g-d-given-breath.html 2010-10-06T00:00:00Z 2010-10-06T00:00:00Z

Chaim K. rolls into my office with a determined look on his face and a twinkle in his eye. I am filled with relief that his dark days seem to be coming to an end. Over the past six years we have been meeting in my office at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem for his therapy sessions and have achieved a level…

https://drjudithguedalia.com/article/0209-a-life-lesson-and-my-new-reality.html 2010-09-07T00:00:00Z 2010-09-07T00:00:00Z

In the spring of 1998, Shaare Zedek's New York-based Women's Division, under the watchful direction of Lee Weinbach, chose me as the recipient of the Maimonides Award. I knew it was not only for my work at Shaare Zedek but also as a first of many future recognitions of my late father's dreams and aspirations for this…

https://drjudithguedalia.com/article/0107-היחידה-לנוירופסיכולוגיה-המרכז-הרפואי-שערי-צדק-ירושלים.html 2008-12-04T09:26:26Z 2008-12-04T09:26:26Z

מה זה נוירופסיכולוגיה? נוירופסיכולוגיה הינה תחום ייחודי בפסיכולוגיה העוסק בקשר שבין מוח לתפקוד. למעשה, כמעט כל תחומי התפקוד הקוגניטיביים, ההתנהגותיים והרגשיים מושפעים מהתהליכים ומהמבנים שבמוח האנושי. כל אחד מתחומים אלה עלול להשתנות כאשר מתרחש שינוי במוח וכל שינוי מאתגר את המשאבים המצויים במוח בעקבותיו. הנוירופסיכולוג…

https://drjudithguedalia.com/article/0106-חריגות-טראומה-ואמפטיה-כולנו-חריגים-בעיניו.html 2008-12-03T09:37:14Z 2008-12-03T09:37:14Z

האישה שישבה מולי הגיעה לשיחה עם התינוקת החדשה, לדבר על הקשיים של בנה הבכור. כשאמרתי לה "מזל טוב" על הולדת התינוקת, היא פרצה בבכי והשיחה קיבלה אופי אחר, ודנה בנושא אחר – ההפלות שלה. היא עברה מעל לשמונה הפלות במשך עשר שנים האחרונות וברוך השם, יש לה שלושה ילדים בריאים. "אבל אני רק בוכה כל הזמן. אני מנסה לא לבכות בחוץ,…

https://drjudithguedalia.com/article/0105-מהי-ההגדרה-המדויקת-ל.html 2008-12-03T09:30:03Z 2008-12-03T09:30:03Z

'המעבר החד מבית החולים, שם טופל היטב הפג, אל ביתו, מקשה ביותר על ההורים והסיפור מתחיל עם החזרה הביתה.' "אני חס ושלום, אינני רוצה להיות כפוית טובה – עד שה' ענה לתפילתנו ונתן לנו ילד. עד שיצא מהסכנה ועד ששוחרר מהפגייה, חיכינו לו בבית – אבל הקשיים לא פסקו". _option "אולי אני לא אימא מספיק טובה, יש לי חברות עם פי שמונה…

https://drjudithguedalia.com/article/0104-עוצמה-של-מילים.html 2008-12-03T09:25:13Z 2008-12-03T09:25:13Z

במקורות – סיפורים רבים. כל הסיפורים על אבותינו ואימהותינו הקדושים ויתר הדמויות בתנ"ך, וכן על חכמינו ז"ל, מלמדים אותנו בנוסף לשמירת המצוות, הוראות להתנהגות בין אישית ויחסים בין אדם לחברו, כמאמר חז"ל – יפה שיחתן של עבדי אבות מתורתם של בנים … _option בספרות הפסיכולוגית קיימת התעניינות מחודשת בסיפורים בכלל, ככלים להעברת…

https://drjudithguedalia.com/article/0066-emdr-ונפגעי-טרור-חלק-ב.html 2008-11-30T08:35:26Z 2008-11-30T08:35:26Z

SCREENING When the patient is showing dissociative responses to the trauma, hysterical paralysis, fugue-like state, we don't attempt EMDR. As the Patients are usually in the ER for many many hours (5-8) opportunities present themselves to assess the patients ability to communicate by various means. The EMDR-ER©…

https://drjudithguedalia.com/article/0177-birkhat-hagomel-community-response-to-acute-stress-disorder.html 2008-02-09T00:00:00Z 2008-02-09T00:00:00Z

ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to propose the introduction of a communal ritual as a post trauma early intervention technique. There are specific community oriented methods for dealing with trauma survivors; we believe that, in particular, the Jewish ritual of birkhat ha’gomel (the blessing recited when saved from…

https://drjudithguedalia.com/article/0054-ben-sorer-umoreh-using-a-biblical-metaphor-in-diagnosis-and-therapy.html 2005-09-25T00:00:00Z 2005-09-25T00:00:00Z

ABSTRACT The Bible's account of the Ben Sorer U'Moreh (recalcitrant, or literally, "stubborn and rebellious" son) (Deuteronomy 21: 18-21) is one of its most puzzling and, seemingly, psychologically incomprehensible. However, upon closer investigation, it may be interpreted as a passage that reflects the Torah's…

https://drjudithguedalia.com/article/0175-in-desperate-pursuit-of-motherhood-another-perspective-on-the-sotah.html 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Judith Guedalia, PhD and Yocheved Debow, MA Abstract The sotah (suspected adulteress) is a topic of much discussion in the Torah and Talmud. The basic level of the discussion is the process by which a jealous husband and the kohanim (priests) deal with a wife suspected of violating the sanctity of marriage by…

https://drjudithguedalia.com/article/9001-computerized-cognitive-testing-in-patients-with-type-i-gaucher-disease-effects-o.html 2005-02-01T12:00:00Z 2005-02-01T12:00:00Z

Abstract: Patients receiving miglustat therapy, enzyme replacement treatment, and untreated individuals were assessed using psychologist-administered and computerized neuropsychological batteries. 55-60 exposed patients in Israel were evaluated. Miglustat recipients scored lower on 5 of 18 psychologist-administered…

https://drjudithguedalia.com/article/0178-accidental-death-a-new-look-at-an-ancient-model.html 2004-03-05T00:00:00Z 2004-03-05T00:00:00Z

By JUDITH GUEDALIA, YOCHEVED DEBOW AND DAVID DEBOW In this paper we present an integrative model for helping perpetrators of accidental killing accept the consequences of their actions and their 'new' selves. We use the model described in the Bible of the 'city of refuge,' a place defined as a sanctuary to protect the…

https://drjudithguedalia.com/article/0176-the-unorthodox-therapy-of-an-ultra-orthodox-adolescent.html 2001-03-04T00:00:00Z 2001-03-04T00:00:00Z

By Judith S.B. Guedalia, Ph.D. and Leah Haber, PhD Editor’s note: In addition to the rabbis consulted by the authors, ASSIA-Jewish Medical Ethics has approached a number of leading halakhic authorities, seeking their opinions on the course of treatment outlined in this case study. These authorities were kind enough to…

https://drjudithguedalia.com/article/0173-the-use-of-lurias-method-for-the-neurobehavioral-assessment-of-encephalopathy-in.html 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abstract Standardized neuropsychological test batteries demonstrate their greatest reliability and validity in patients with focal, well-defined neurologic disease. In these patients, the test profiles typically highlight focal areas of strengths and weaknesses in the brain. However, the clinical utility of standard…

https://drjudithguedalia.com/article/0179-canavan-disease--an-expanded-role-for-dentists.html 1998-03-08T00:00:00Z 1998-03-08T00:00:00Z

ABSTRACT American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, Jerusalem, Israel. Canavan disease (CD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that occurs predominantly but not exclusively in Ashkenazi Jews. It is characterized by a normal birth, rapidly followed by signs of lack of interest, hypotonia, and megalencephaly,…

https://drjudithguedalia.com/article/0172-a-reversible-case-of-klüver-bucy-syndrome-in-association-with-shigellosis.html 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abstract The Klüver-Bucy syndrome is characterized by psychic blindness or visual agnosia, blunted affect, hypermetamorphosis, hyperorality, bulimia, and sexual behavioral alterations. To date, there have been fewer than 10 reported cases of Klüver-Bucy syndrome in children, most of them irreversible. We describe here…