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Electroconvulsive Therapy Use in Major Depressive Disorder Hospitalizations in ...
Araújo, Marta; Freitas, Alberto; Gonçalves Pinho, ManuelIntroduction: Depression, recognized as a major contributor to global disability, requires diverse therapeutic strategies. While psychological therapy and antidepressant medications are primary interventions, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) emerges as a valuable option for severe and treatment ‑resistant cases. This retrospective observational study explores the scenery of depressive disorder‑related hospital...
Choroidal and retinal imaging biomarkers in age-related macular degeneration an...
Fernandes, Nádia; Araújo, Marta; Lança, Carla; Carvalho, TiagoAge-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is a chronic and multifactorial aging retinal disease that causes irreversible central vision loss. In Europe, AMD represents the main cause of severe visual impairment and blindness in the elderly. Health status, low antioxidant diet, and sedentary lifestyles are modifiable risk factors. Health promotion and preventive medicine are essential to reduce the risk of disease ...
Low vision rehabilitation program in myopic macular degeneration: a case report
Fernandes, Nádia; Araújo, Marta; Carvalho, Tiago; Lança, CarlaIntroduction: Patients with high myopia are at risk of developing myopic macular degeneration (MMD), which leads to vision loss and irreversible visual impairment. Elderly populations are affected by loss of quality of life. Low vision services should offer specialized training programs to help patients overcome difficulties in daily living activities. This study aimed to describe the results of a low vision re...
'Talking about institutionalised racism or racism in institutions?' A case stud...
Araújo, MartaThis chapter engages with different notions of racism – from the understanding proposed in the so-called ‘UNESCO tradition’ in the early 1950s to the critiques by Black intellectuals, decolonial thought and postcolonial studies – as well as their reverberations in the European context over the last decades. Highlighting conceptual advances brought by the notion of institutional racism, and the challenges it con...
Islamophobia in Portugal, Beyond the National Register
Araújo, MartaThe relationship between Islam and Portugal is intimately tied to processes of national formation and diverse in terms of the key protagonists, historical periods, and political conjunctures that it evokes – hence it is particularly suited for the contextualised study of Islamophobia. Drawing on a larger European study, and specifically on discourse analysis and empirical research on the Portuguese context, thi...
Mobilizing History: Racism, Enslavement and Public Debate in Contemporary Europe
Araújo, Marta; Nimako, KwameThis chapter engages the politics of remembrance and forgetfulness associated with European colonialism, shedding light on the relationship between race, history and memory. More specifically it addresses the mobilization of colonial history in public initiatives and in Black movements, mediated by different understandings of (anti-)racism in Europe. The discussion is grounded in two examples: (1) A public hist...
Engagement and disengagement with sustainable development : further conceptuali...
Moreira, Paulo; Inman, Richard A.; Hanel, Paul H. P.; Faria, Sara; Araújo, Marta; Pedras, Susana; Cunha, DianaCorrespondence concerning this article should be addressed to Prof. Paulo Moreira, Instituto de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Universidade Lusíada, Rua de Moçambique 21 e 71, Porto 4100-348, Portugal. Email: paulomoreira@por.ulusiada.pt; Engagement is a multidimensional construct with emotional, cognitive, and behavioral components. As a process, engagement captures how subjective experiences result fro...
The exposure to violence questionnaire in adolescents: psychometrics and associ...
Pedras, Susana; Moreira, Paulo; Ramanlho, Sofia; Inman, Richard A.; Faria, Sara; Araújo, MartaNo funding was received for conducting this study. The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Centro de Investigação em Psicologia para o Desenvolvimento (CIPD) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments. Informed consent was obtained from all participants ...
Notes on racism, democracy, and research
Araújo, MartaPublished online: 22 Feb 2021; Reactionary Democracy addresses the mutual influences between far-right and mainstream political discourse, arguing that the renewal of right-wing radicalism has legitimized liberal racism whilst distracting us from its systemic expressions. Whilst the book is an important endeavour helping to enunciate debates on racism next to an audience interested in populism studies, politica...
Colonialismo português, lusotropicalismo, racismo e lutas antirracistas: entrev...
Agra Figueiredo, Otto Vinicius; Arruda, Jalusa Silva de; Araújo, MartaMarta Araújo é doutora pela Universidade de Londres (IoE) e pesquisadora sênior do Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES), Universidade de Coimbra. Nesta entrevista inédita Marta Araújo abordou sua trajetória de investigadora dedicada aos temas relacionados ao racismo que, em certa medida, se encontra sobre como a questão adentrou as agendas de pesquisa em Portugal. Conhecedora do contexto brasileiro, Marta Araújo tra...