Boletim informativo NEPS
Universidade do Minho. Instituto de Ciências Sociais. Núcleo de Estudos de População e Sociedade
2001-11-01
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Foram encontrados 195 registos.
The author begins by commenting on the difficulty of the semantic delimitation between concepts of affect, emotion, sentiment, feeling, mood, and passion. This difficulty becomes greater when the terms are translated into different languages. He then foccuses on the concept of emotion, which has benefited from recent research, and its distinction from mood, a concept which is at the base of the psychopathology of bipolar disorders. Much more complex is the Portuguese concept of affect (different from the English concept), which has an interpersonal dimension and can be developed from recent discoveries of “mirror neurons” and “theory of mind”.
Background: Bipolar disorder, characterized by episodes of mania, hypomania and depression is associated with sleep disturbances and circadian rhythm disruption. These changes have significant impact on quality of life and in the disease prognosis. Aims: Review of the main sleep disturbances observed in the bipolar disorder, their clinical impact and the hypothetical pathophysiological mechanisms involved. Methods: We conducted a non-systematic review of the literature in English through research in PubMed with the keywords “sleep disturbance”, “bipolar disorder”, “polysomnography”. Results and Conclusions: Complaints about sleep pattern changes may occur during any phase of the disease. These in clude frequent night-time awakenings, poor sleep quality, reduction of the total sleeping time and decreased latency and increased density of...
In this paper we will analyze the founda- tion of Rilhafoles Hospital, Portugal ́s first psychiatric hospital as well as the context that led to its inception. The book “Os Alienados em Portugal” by António Sena (1883), a Portuguese alienist and first director of Conde Ferreira Hospital, will be the primary source. To achieve this purpose, we will add some further contributions from other works focused on that period of Portuguese psychiatry. In the ensuing sections we will stress the histori- cal developments of the foundation of the main European psychiatric institutions and will overview the book “Dos Estabelecimentos de Alienados nos Principais Estados da Europa” (1844) by Bernardino António Gomes, a generalist physician, director of the Portuguese Navy ́s Hospital, in which he reports his visits to some of these insti- tutions. ...
Italian psychiatry has gained International attention after its radical reform of 1978, which established the progressive closure of mental hospitals and the establishment of community services throughout the country. However it is technically inappropriate to talk about Italian psychiatry as the devolution process has transferred to the regions all competences about policy, planning and evaluating health services. This explains the variety of “community psychiatries” that can be found along the peninsula and the reasons of interest that can arise from their comparison. The development of community psychiatry in Emilia‐Romagna, a region of 4 million inhabitants in Northern Italy, has proceeded through two partially overlapping phases of deinstitutionalization (1978‐1997) and development of integrated mental health departments (1990‐200...
The authors describe the context preceeding the planning, implementation and development of the Hospital Fernando Fonseca’s department of psychiatry, enphasising the general values and principles supporting a markedly communitary department. They underline the way relationships with primary care and other health and social institutions in the community were established and tightened. The department’s current structure, the projects already under develo‐ pment and, finally, those to be developed in the future are described.
Takotsubo syndrome is a good prognosis acute cardiac syndrome more frequently occurring in postmenopausal women, usually preceded by psychological or physical stress. The authors collected demographic and clinical data and evaluated psychiatric and psychological aspects of a seven-patient- sample diagnosed with this syndrome. Patient Health Questionnaire and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) were applied. Four of the participants were medicated with psychotropic medication and a depressive disorder was diagnosed in two of them. MMPI results revealed psychopathic deviate and paranoia characteristics in the evalu- ated patients.
The authors discuss the characteristics and the preliminary findings of the Prevention in Mental Health ‐ EAPPP (Early Detection & Attention of Patients with Risk of Psychosis), a team inserted in the public Primary Health Care System of Barcelona, Spain. Special attention is given to the four core domains of the team work: selection of target populations, the system for detection of first episode psychosis (FEP) and at‐risk mental state (ARMS) subjects in the community, the close relationship with the social and educational systems, and the psychoanalytic components of the inter‐paradigmatic framework. The community focused work and the psycholog‐ ical and inter‐paradigmatic framework are core differential components of the EAPPP unit in the field of EPA (early psychosis attention).
In this paper we try to analyse the impact on community mental health due to the approval of the regional Mental Health Strategic Plan 2006‐2011 for Galicia and its first three years of development. The work begins showing the historical context of the new Mental Health Policy pointing out the development of care services and the changes on assitance introduced by the implementation of new programs. It concludes with a reflection on the incertitu‐ des about future due to political changes
