Showing papers in "Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria in 2008"

TL;DR: In the last 45 years it has been possible to demonstrate that CBD has a wide range of pharmacological effects, many of which being of great therapeutic interest, but still waiting to be confirmed by clinical trials.

TL;DR: The Brazilian Research Consortium on Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders has established an important network for standardized collaborative clinical research in obsessive-compulsive disorder and may pave the way to similar projects aimed at integrating other research groups in Brazil and throughout the world.

TL;DR: Compared with early theories, cerebellum appears to play a major role in different brain functions other than balance and motor control, including emotional regulation and cognition.

TL;DR: Results suggest that alterations in oxidative status may be mechanistically associated with abnormal low levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor observed in individuals with bipolar disorder.

TL;DR: A politica brasileira de saude mental infantil e juvenil tem como acao central a implementacao de Centros de Atencao Psicossocial Infanto-Juvenil for atendimento dos cases of transtornos mentais that envolvem prejuizos funcionais severos e persistentes.

TL;DR: Women showed higher dissatisfaction than did men as to their appearance as measured by the Body Shape Questionnaire, and the adapted version of the scale seems to maintain the characteristics of the original scale.

TL;DR: The cascade of molecular and neurobiological effects associated with childhood abuse and neglect could be an example ofallostatic response that could precipitate allostatic load in organism still vulnerable during its development.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of cognitive and cognitive-behavioral approaches to psychotherapy is presented, pointing out similarities across and differences between them, and some of the cognitive and behavioral techniques used in emotional disorders.

TL;DR: The performance of patients with mild cognitive impairment was heterogeneous across the different subtests of the neuropsychological battery, with a trend towards an overall worse performance for amnestic mild Cognitive impairment as compared to non-amnestic subtypes.

TL;DR: The adaptation of the Iowa Gambling Task to Brazilian Portuguese is valid and can be used for research purposes in the Brazilian context, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder subjects performed significantly worse than healthy volunteers.

TL;DR: A systematic and critical review of the more recent literature data about structural abnormalities detected by magnetic resonance in anxiety disorders indicates that structural neuroimaging has contributed to a better understanding of the neurobiology of anxiety disorders.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of cognitive and cognitive-behavioral approaches to psychotherapy is presented, pointing out similarities across and differences between them, and some of the cognitive and behavioral techniques used in emotional disorders.

TL;DR: The Clock Drawing Test is a reliable but not valid test to screen for dementia in older outpatients with 4 or less years of formal schooling.

TL;DR: A systematic literature review was conducted to evaluate the progression of Internet and electronic games addiction in the general population in the course of the last decade, as well as contributing to better understand this condition and its comorbidities.

TL;DR: The study suggests that the presence of depressive symptoms may act as an independent risk factor for mortality in chronic hemodialysis patients, but this finding needs further investigations.

TL;DR: A revisao da literatura sobre a comorbidade transtorno do deficit de atencao e hiperatividade/transtornos alimentares, realizando uma analise critica dos dados encontrados, realizing uma revisao sistematica da literaturea, foi realizar a revisão de artigos publicados no periodo de 1980 to 2008, utilizando as bases of dados Medline, Lilacs, SciELO, ISI e Psy

TL;DR: A revisao bibliografica de trabalhos que investigate o impact of exposicao a publicidade do alcool on the consumo de alcool is presented in this paper.

TL;DR: The similarities between factors associated with depressive symptoms in this population and in others do not explain the high prevalence rates previously reported in Bambuí, and these findings may guide efforts to investigate others factors to elucidate the etiopathogenesis of depression in thispopulation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify sociodemographic, psychosocial and clinical differences between men and women who attempted suicide and were seen at a university general hospital and make a comparison between genders by means of uni and multivariate logistic regression.

TL;DR: For instance, in this article, the authors evaluated the tolerabilidade of the topiramato of cocaina in men with dependence on it for 12 semanas of tratamento ambulatorial.

TL;DR: The authors conclude that the Brazilian Portuguese version of the Social Phobia Inventory proved to be adequate regarding the psychometric properties initially studied, with qualities quite close to those of the original study.

TL;DR: The prevalence of having engaged in a physical fight among in-school adolescents in Santiago, Chile is found to be similar to what has been reported in diverse settings in Africa, Europe and North America.

TL;DR: The intervention proposed was based on psychodramatic analysis and selected through media advertisement 8 individuals that felt that their way of loving made them suffer, which is experienced as an obsessive emotion that dominates the individual.

TL;DR: How the population of the city of São Paulo identifies alcohol dependence is described, which causes they attribute to this disorder and what is reported regarding stigma perception, risk of violence and emotional reactions are described.

TL;DR: O transtorno do comprar compulsivo e uma condicao cronica e prevalente encontrada ao redor do mundo sugerem that compradores compulsivos podem se beneficiar de intervencoes psicossociais.

TL;DR: In this paper, a modelo of tratamento cognitivo-comportamental for adiccao is described. But, as a result, it is difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of such a model.

TL;DR: This study shows that when women's roles become more similar to men's, so do their drinking patterns, and that access, smoking, income and having a heavy drinker partner were important risk factors for women's drinking.

TL;DR: Reliability and construct validity assessment using Grade of Membership analysis indicated that the semi-structured interview was suitable for capturing risk behavior among patients with chronic mental illness.

TL;DR: In this paper, a terapia cognitivo-comportamental no tratamento da depressao, quer oferecida de forma isolada ou em combinacao com farmacoterapia, is discussed.