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Plasma prevalence of anti-N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor IgG antibodies in early...
Loureiro,Camila Marcelino; Corsi-Zuelli,Fabiana; Fachim,Helene Aparecida; Shuhama,Rosana; Chagas,Natália Mota de Souza; Menezes,Paulo RossiAbstract We investigated the feasibility of including plasma anti-NMDAR antibody screening in the assessment of first-episode psychosis patients in an early intervention programme in the Southern hemisphere. Anti-NMDAR IgG antibodies were assessed by ELISA in 166 patients (64.0% men), 166 matched population-based controls and 76 patients’ siblings (30.3% men). Fisher’s exact test and ANOVA were performed. Posit...
Validation of the Portuguese version of the Community Assessment of Psychic Exp...
Ragazzi,Taciana C.C.; Shuhama,Rosana; Sinval,Jorge; Marôco,João; Corsi-Zuelli,Fabiana; Roza,Daiane L. da; van Os,Jim; Menezes,Paulo R.Objective: We investigated: i) the reliability and validity of a Brazilian version of the Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences (CAPE), developed to detect and characterize psychotic experiences in the general population; and ii) the association between psychotic experiences, childhood adversity, and cannabis use in a population-based sample. Methods: We performed factorial analyses and generalized linear...
Effect of changes to the formal curriculum on medical students’ motivation towa...
Del-Ben,Cristina Marta; Shuhama,Rosana; Costa,Manuel João; Troncon,Luiz Ernesto de AlmeidaABSTRACT BACKGROUND: One of the factors known to influence performance in the learning process is student motivation. In turn, students’ motivation can be regulated by a large number of variables relating to the individual (such as sex, age and socioeconomic status) or to aspects of the academic life. OBJECTIVE: The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of curriculum changes involving reductio...
Caracterização clínica e psicossocial da clientela de um ambulatório de esteril...
Gorayeb,Ricardo; Borsari,Andréa Cristina de Toledo; Gomes,Andreza Cristiana Ribeiro; Romão,Adriana Peterson Mariano Salata; Shuhama,RosanaEste estudo teve como objetivo descrever características demográficas, clínicas e psicossociais da clientela de um ambulatório de esterilidade e identificar motivação para atendimento psicológico. Tratou-se de estudo retrospectivo, com 50 casais, entrevistados no início do processo de investigação médica. Constatou-se que 80% dos casais estavam na primeira união conjugal, 64% tinham até oito anos de casados, 72...
Animal defense strategies and anxiety disorders
Shuhama,Rosana; Del-Ben,Cristina M.; Loureiro,Sônia R.; Graeff,Frederico G.Anxiety disorders are classified according to symptoms, time course and therapeutic response. Concurrently, the experimental analysis of defensive behavior has identified three strategies of defense that are shared by different animal species, triggered by situations of potential, distal and proximal predatory threat, respectively. The first one consists of cautious exploration of the environment for risk asses...