Psiquiatric

Psychiatric reactions to disasters have not received sufficient attention because it is widely accepted that human beings can endure any kind of extreme stress.A disaster is the consequence of an extraordinary event that destroys goods, kills people, produces physical or psychological harm but, above all, which overcomes the adaptive possibilities of the social group. Disasters have strong political background and consequences. They shake the life of a community and bear with them a set of questions about safety, social organization and meaning of life...

Secondary erotomania has mainly been associated with functional psychosis (especially schizophrenia) and bipolar disorder. Traditionally, erotomania has been considered chronic and refractory to treatment, although cases of secondary erotomania with response to benzodiazepines, lithium, anticonvulsivants, antipsychotic drugs and electroconvulsive therapy have been described. In this paper, we present a clinical case of secondary erotomania related to paranoid schizophrenia with good response to electroconvulsive therapy and neuroleptics...

Medico-legal assessment of people who have suffered injuries in road traffic accidents must use Law 30/95 as a reference frame. Psychiatric and neuropsychological syndromes secondary to traumatic brain injury (TBI) are no exception and pose demanding challenges to physicians and psychologists. This paper analyzes descriptive and nosological difficulties face by psychiatrists and psychologists; their expert contribution includes translation of official diagnostic entities into categories published in the annex of Law 30/95...

INTRODUCTION: This study falls within research on neurocognitive risk markers of schizophrenia spectrum disorders, and its usefulness for early prevention strategies. METHOD: Two samples of 60 adults and 65 children and adolescents, with some schizophrenia high-risk individuals among them, were studied with the aim of harmonizing different strategies for early detection. One of the most practical aspects of this study was the design of a combined and straightforward measure (different in adults and adolescents) of vulnerability to schizophrenia spectrum disorders (schizotaxia), in contrast to the high availability of neuropsychological measures...

INTRODUCTION: The dichotic hearing test consists of simultaneous stimulation of right and left ears with different messages, allowing analysis of the better or worse selective integration of these messages. MATERIAL AND METHODS: With the latest techniques, the tonal dichotic test is applied by listening to a sample of 90 persons, ages from between 20 and 50 years without antecedents of otologic, neurologic nor psiquiatric disorders, valuing their discriminative and dominant capacity for lateral hearing...