223 research outputs found
L’iniezione endoarteriosa rapida di farmaci vasoattivi. I: Il tempo di risposta al farmaco come indice di funzionalità vasale
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La trasposizione tendinea nel trattamento della paralisi del nervo sciatico o delle sue branche”.
No full textNeural correlates of psychodynamic psychotherapy in borderline disorders--a pilot investigation.
No full textEnvironmental influences Produce functional modifications
in neural systems [1]. Psychotherapy, that can produce behavioral
and psychological changes byverbal communication and interperson;
l relation, affects the brain, but how [2]
Impulsivity in eating disorders: analysed through Wartegg test
No full textPsychological and psychopathological characteristics in eating disorders (ED) were analyzed by Wartegg projective test on one-hundred ED female patients. Thirty-five patients diagnosed with Anorexia of restricting-type (ANrt), twenty-two patients diagnosed with Anorexia of purgingtype (ANpt) and forthy-three patients with Bulimia diagnosis (BL) (DSM-IV criteria and EDES questionnaire) were compared with eighty-one control subjects (CN). Wartegg test results, by a quantitative scoring system, show significant differences between ED patients and CN on depression, impulsivity, reality testing and aggressiveness. ANrt present anxiety, perfectionism and impulsivity; ANpt show lower formal quality than other qroups, and BL show depression and low self-realization. Wartegg projective test shows a significant unconscious or disguised impulsivity in restricting anorexic patients
Hostility direction in eating disorders: a wartegg test study
No full textAssertiveness and direction of hostility have been studied in eating disorder patients with conflicting results: some studies did not show significant differences between anorexics and bulimics, while others found outward directed hostility in anorexic patients. Because of the interference of aggressiveness with therapeutic programs and of the influence of inward and outward hostility on psychopathological development, we studied hostility direction in anorexic and bulimic patients. We assessed 10 anorexic (age m:22; sd:6) and 10 bulimic (age m:28; sd:7) women by the wartegg projective method. Clinical groups were compared with a control group of 18 healthy subjects (age m:25; sd:6). ANOVA showed a significant difference between the control group and clinical groups on formal quality (p<0.05) of table V, and on affective quality (p<0.05), and formal quality (p<0.05) of table VI. Post Hoc analyses showed for table III (affective quality) a lower score of the bulimic group vs. the anorexic group (p<0.05) and the control group (p=0.07). For table V on formal quality, bulimic group had a lower score than the control group (p<0.01) and the bulimic group (p<0.05 and p=0.08). It seems that bulimic patients and few emotional and motivational resources, a lower level of future planning and a less adequate management of hostility control
Spect video emotional activation paradigm on borderline personality disorder: a pilot study
No full textBorderline personality disorder is mainly characterized by instability of self-esteem interpersonal relations and mood. The tendency to react to frustrations with acting outs suggests the presence in such patients of a difficulty in the simbolising process, that does not allow a correct "mentalization" and therefore the attribution of a meaning to the stressful events. Several neurobiological studies of borderline personality disorder show a pattern characterised by ipoactivity of frontal and pre-frontal areas and a malfunctioning of amygdala. We performed Single Photo Emission Tomography (SPECT), using a video emotional activation paradigm, in a patient with borderline personality disorder and a control subject. Faced with violent scenes in the video, the patient, but not the control subject, showed an activation of limbic areas and prefrontal cortex. This activation pattern may be the neurobiological correlate of a cognitive activity put in action in order to manage the strong emotion triggered by the video, absent in the control subject
Urgent psychiatric consulting in general hospital
No full textDuring the year 2003, 728 urgent psychiatric consultations were carried out by our unit. The activity concerned 202 males (mean age: 45.1 years) and 203 females (mean age: 43.4 years). The highest number of visits has been requested by the infectious diseases, emergency and medicine units. The distribution for disorders appears similiar to previous years, with a predominance of alcoholism and substance abuse in males, depression, anxiety disorders and eating disorders in females. Data show that the focus of urgent intervention is first screening diagnosis and psychopharmacological intertion rather than integrated treatment
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