I congratulate psychology forum for this excellent job to make a home page for the activities of psychology forum. It will provide a good opportunity to the students as well as the faculty members to know about the ongoing events and activities of the department as well as of the psychology forum. This will be also be a source of contact between the faculty and the students and may be between the professionals all over  Malaysia. It will also provide a plateform to exchange views and ideas among psychologist. I am sure that it will also be a source of knowledge for the students. I suggest the forum to continue this home page in the future and make it a multipurpose forum of actvities for the community of psychologists. Well done. 

Syed Ashiq Ali Shah 
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Abu Ali Al-Husayn Ibn Abdullah Ibn Sina (980-1037 A.D.) Ibnu Sina or Avicenna was a physician, pharmacist, astronomer, administrator, philosopher, musician and poet.  He was born near Bukhara.  By the age of 10 he had mastered the Qur'an and by 16 he became a physician.  Ibn Sinna produced over 200 works and his earliest was al-Shifa.  His al-Qanun fi al-Tibb or Canon of Medicine was considered the 'most famous medical textbook ever written' by William Osler.  His contribution to psychosomatic medicine was substantial including areas such as relationship between emotion and bodily changes. He also contributed to many aspects of environmental health, dietetics, the introduction of drugs into urethra, use of vagina tampon, use of oral anesthetics and others.  He also described accurately many diseases such as tetanus, pleuritis, tuberculosis, dracunculosis, anthrax and diabetes mellitus.

© Potrait by courtesy of Kulliyyah of Medicine, International Islamic University Malaysia, 25150 Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia.