Search academic resources

Vocational rehabilitation represents an important elementwithin the mental health care system. To ensure the successof rehabilitation, programs of varying degrees of complexityare needed in order to meet patients´ abili...

This Campbell systematic review examines the effectiveness of 12‐step programs in reducing the use of illicit drugs. The review summarises findings from 10 studies, nine of which were conducted in the United States. Th...

BackgroundAdolescent girls with Intellectual disability (ID) are amongst the most vulnerable and underserved populations with special menstrual health needs. The prevalence of menstrual difficulties and premenstrual symp...

Abstract Introduction Specialized psychosocial care centers (Centros de Atenção Psicossocial [CAPS]) are mental health services focused on social rehabilitation and reducing hospitalization of patients with severe and...

Background Anorexia nervosa (AN) has been characterised as a psychiatric disorder associated with increased control. Currently, it remains difficult to predict treatment response in patients with AN. Their cognitive abil...

Immunophilins are a family of proteins whose signature domain is the peptidylprolylisomerase domain. High molecular weight immunophilins are characterized by the additional presence of tetratricopeptide-repeats (TPR) thr...

Introduction Paediatric anxiety disorders are among the most common psychiatric disorders of childhood and adolescence, affecting between 15% and 30% of youth. Rates rose sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic, and untreat...

Viral encephalitis is a common clinical condition. Its clinical manifestations are variable and include neurological symptoms and psychiatric abnormalities, which makes clinical diagnosis and treatment difficult. To date...

Abstract Introduction Comorbid obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is common in bipolar disorder (BD). Clinical characteristics, functionality and familial pattern of this comorbidity are largely understudied. Objectiv...

Background Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness affecting approximately 20 million individuals globally. Both genetic and environmental factors contribute to the illness. If left undiagnosed and untreated, schizophr...

Background and Aims: Autism in children is known to affect brain systems implicated in cognitive, communication, social functioning and intelligence. Although autism is a neurobiological disorder, behavioral interventi...

INTRODUCTION: This study aimed to investigate serum levels of proline, prolidase, proline dehydrogenase (PRODH), and reactive oxygen species (ROS) in patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls, to evaluate potentia...

INTRODUCTION: Hemodialysis (HD) while causing role difficulties due to physical problems and disturbances in general health perception in the short term, leads to disorders of physical function and general health percept...

ObjectiveTo investigate the effects of Du Meridian acupoint acupuncture combined with high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (HF-rTMS) on patients with vascular dementia (VD).MethodsA total of 104 pa...

Some studies have reported the importance of electroencephalography (EEG) as a method for investigating abnormal parameters in psychiatric disorders. Different findings in time and frequency domain analysis with regard t...

Abstract Melatonin plays a key role in circadian regulation, and its interaction with the gut microbiota may be critical for early-life development. Beyond its circadian function, melatonin dysregulation is implicated in...

Abstract Objective: To highlight the changes in the frontal lobe of the human brain in people with schizophrenia. Methods: This was a qualitative review of the literature. Results: Many schizophrenic patients exhib...

This Campbell systematic review assesses the effectiveness of home visits in preventing impairment, institutionalization, and death in older adults, as well as identifying factors that may moderate effects. The review su...

Research has show the relationship between brain functioning and homicide. The brain region involved in the understanding of this relationship is the frontal lobe. A systematic review of the scientific production on "hom...

Abstract Background Migraine is a very common chronic neurological disorder associated with severe disability and significant social burden worldwide. Beyond recurrent headache attacks, increasing evidence indicates that...

El concepto de reserva cerebral y cognitiva (RCC) fue establecido con el objeto de explicar por qué y cómo ciertos individuos, pese a estar afectados por una patología cerebral, no expresan las alteraciones cognitivas...

Psychiatric and social rehabilitation is also very important as well as the medical rehabilitation after a successful transplantation. Encouragement of both marriage of single or widowed patients and becoming a parent of...

Abstract Introduction Neuroprogression has been proposed as the pathological rewiring of the brain that takes place in parallel with clinical and neurocognitive deterioration in the course of psychiatric disorders. Thi...

Introduction: Olfactory Reference Syndrome (ORS) is a rare, under-recognized, and understudied psychiatric condition characterized by a persistent belief about the perceived odor, ideas of reference, and engagement in re...