Background: Catatonia is a neuropsychiatric syndrome characterized by motor, behavioral, and autonomic abnormalities. It is often underdiagnosed in geriatric patients with dementia despite established diagnostic criteria and treatment options. Objective: This systematic review investigates catatonia in the elderly, particularly those with dementia, to examine their clinical presentation, treatment response, and...
Introdução: Os psicofármacos são, muitas vezes, associados a reacções adversas medicamentosas cutâneas. Grande parte destas reacções tem um carácter benigno, sendo no entanto, importante considerar o seu papel no aumento do estigma e adesão terapêutica. Uma pequena parte das reações adversas medicamentosas cutâneas pode evoluir para quadros graves e potencialmente fatais. Objectivos: Esta revisão pretende anali...
Histrionic Personality Disorder is one of the most ambiguous diagnostic categories in psychiatry. Hysteria is a classical term that includes a wide variety of psychopathological states. Ancient Egyptians and Greeks blamed a displaced womb, for many women's afflictions. Several researchers from the 18th and 19th centuries studied this theme, namely, Charcot who defined hysteria as a "neurosis" with an organic ba...