Boletim informativo NEPS
Universidade do Minho. Instituto de Ciências Sociais. Núcleo de Estudos de População e Sociedade
2001-11-01
Resultados de pesquisa
Foram encontrados 195 registos.
Background: Psychiatric is common in patients with respiratory disease, with depressive and anxiety disorders being the most frequent in this patient population. However, these tend to be under-diagnosed, possibly due to the overlap between the somatic manifestations of psychiatric illness and physical symptoms of severe respiratory distress. The occurrence of psychiatric disorders in patients with respiratory disease has a negative impact on several health indicators (illness control, poor adherence to treatment, functional impairment, increased use of health care services, delays in assessment or treatment and increased health related costs). The treatment of psychiatric disorders associated with respiratory disease may contribute to better quality of life and may help relieve some respiratory symptomatology...
The published bibliography about neuropsychiatric adverse events related to the treatment with interferon alpha in patients suffering from viral hepatitis is reviewed. The authors pointed out adverse events such as mood disorders, anxiety disorders, suicide and deliberate self-harm, manic symptoms and psychotic disturbance. The onset of these psychiatric disorders may be a cause for poor, non-compliance or discontinuation with medical treatment. A good response to psychiatric treatment is observed so that it’s many times possible to maintain medical treatment. A multidisciplinary team in order to facilitate early assessment and treatment of this conditions may contribute for a better prognosis of patients with viral hepatitis.
The author pretends to present with this article, the therapeutic contributions of Psychomotricity and Relaxation in Mental Health context, making only reference to adults intervention. A brief description of the body, as a biopsychosocial unity, is found in the introduction, which is followed by the explanation of conceptual and interventional models in Clinical Psychomotricity. The author makes reference to psychotherapeutic values of relaxation, giving some examples of techniques and exposing a clinical case. Finally, the author briefly describes her recent experience of Psychomotor intervention in Psychiatric Service of Hospital Fernando Fonseca.
Introdução: A mania de Bell (ou “mania delirante”) constitui um quadro clínico grave, que consiste sucintamente na sobreposição de sintomas de delirium e de mania. Vários autores deram contributos para a definição desta entidade nosológica, não obstante este ser um quadro clínico ainda mal compreendido, não existindo guidelines diagnósticas e terapêuticas, nem se conhecendo muito da sua etiopatogénese.Objectivos: Apresentar um caso de clínico de um doente que foi admitido numa enfermaria de psiquiatria, apresentando sintomatologia compatível com mania de Bell, sendo ainda discutida a marcha diagnóstica e terapêutica do caso e feita uma revisão da literatura.Métodos: Revisão não sistemática de artigos pesquisados no PubMed.Resultados e Conclusões: O estabelecimento da mania de Bell como subtipo de episódio maníaco seria útil não apenas ...
The association between bipolar disorder and borderline personality has been studied by several researchers. Comorbidity has been emphasized by some authors which observe a prognostic impairment of bipolar disorder because the delay of the diagnostic. Symptoms related with alcohol and drugs abuse, suicidary behaviour and impulsivity, often present in borderline patients, make the treatment difficult. Other authors consider these symptoms as being part of the bipolar disease, proposing a continuum between the two entities. In this case, borderline personality would be a mild form of an affective disorder. We will discuss different opinions and their cli- nical and therapeutic consequences.
The author presents in a short introduction the organization of this paper. Then he refers, in the first chapter, the popperian model of learning and its implications in the austrian philosopher's ideas about scientific evolution. Secondly, the author presents the kuhnian model with a special focus in the theories about paradigms and scientific evolution. Finally, there is a short chapter about the main similarities and differences between the two philosophers in these matters.
Background: An understanding of how psychotherapeutic interventions change the brain reflects the constant tension between the psychological and biological explanations of human behavior. Psychodynamic psychotherapy has its origins in psychoanalytic theory and is, above all, a way of thinking that includes unconscious conflicts, failures and distortions of intrapsy -chic structures, mental representations of self and others, which emphasizes the communicative function (between patient and therapist) of the symptom (and behavior).Aims and Methods: With a non systematic review this paper intended to understand the cerebral impact of psychodynamic interventions, from a neuroscientific perspective of some psychoanalytic concepts.Results andConclusions: Psychotherapy, as a platform for the acquisition of new s...
Pain causes emotional distress and decreases quality of life. A significant percentage of pain patients shows depressive and anxiety disorders. To evaluate the prevalence of anxiety and/or depression in the patients followed at Pain Unit of Hospital Fernando Fonseca, HADS was administered. On the sub-scale of anxiety, 63% of women and 15% of men had "high" scores (cut of point of 11 or more). On the sub-scale of depression, 42% of women and 27% of men had "high" scores. The correlation between the Pain Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and the HADS total scores was found to be statistically significant.
Introduction: How important is the emotional life of persons who manifest psychotic symptoms? Aims: The aim of this paper is to review evidence on a causal role for emotions in psychotic processes. Methods: Selective review of literature on affective symptoms in psychoses, on emotions in the production of psychotic symptoms and on dopaminergic models of psychosis. Results: Affective symptoms are relevant across psychoses. Persons with schizophrenia have high levels of emotional reactivity and the intensification of negative affects not only is associated with but also precedes the intensification of psychotic symptoms, which is evidence that negative emotions drive the course of psychotic symptoms. Negative self‑representations are central in psychotic processes and can be the link between negative emotions and psychosis. Evidence favo...
