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Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the Brazilian Portuguese version o...
Cantini,Jessye Almeida; Santos,George Oliveira; Machado,Eduardo de Carvalho; Nardi,Antonio Egídio; Silva,Adriana CardosoIntroduction: Driving anger has attracted the attention of researchers in recent years because it may induce individuals to drive aggressively or adopt risk behaviors. The Driving Anger Scale (DAS) was designed to evaluate the propensity of drivers to become angry or aggressive while driving. This study describes the cross-cultural adaptation of a Brazilian version of the short form and the long form of the DAS...
Risk factors for suicide in multiple sclerosis: a case-control study
Cerqueira,Ana Claudia de; Andrade,Patrícia Semionato; Godoy-Barreiros,José Maurício; Silva,Adriana Cardoso de Oliveira e; Nardi,Antonio EgídioABSTRACT Objective To evaluated the prevalence and the suicide risk in a Brazilian sample of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and to identify potential factors associated with the risk of suicide. A study was performed with outpatient with MS. The risk of suicide and the presence of psychiatric disorders were assessed by version 5.0 of the Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI). The sample of...
Lower trait frontal theta activity in mindfulness meditators
Tanaka,Guaraci Ken; Peressutti,Caroline; Teixeira,Silmar; Cagy,Mauricio; Piedade,Roberto; Nardi,Antonio Egídio; Ribeiro,Pedro; Velasques,BrunaAcute and long-term effects of mindfulness meditation on theta-band activity are not clear. The aim of this study was to investigate frontal theta differences between long- and short-term mindfulness practitioners before, during, and after mindfulness meditation. Twenty participants were recruited, of which 10 were experienced Buddhist meditators. Despite an acute increase in the theta activity during meditatio...
Polycystic ovary syndrome: implications of metabolic dysfunction
Ávila,Márcio Augusto Pinto de; Bruno,Ricardo Vasconcellos; Barbosa,Fábio Cuiabano; Andrade,Felipe Cupertino de; Silva,Adriana Cardoso de Oliveira eOBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MS) and its clinical interrelations in polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).METHODS: This was a cross-sectional, prospective study with 100 patients with diagnosed PCOS based on the consensus of Rotterdam (2003). We investigated the interrelationships of MS, with intrinsic PCOS data. Dermatological profile was analyzed, in addition to acanthosis nigrican...
Acantose nigricante: inter-relações metabólicas inerentes à síndrome dos ovário...
Ávila,Márcio Augusto Pinto de; Borges,Lunna Perdigão; Paez,Marina Silva; Bruno,Ricardo Vasconcellos; Nardi,Antonio EgídioOBJETIVO: Estabelecer a prevalência da acantose nigricante (AN) no contexto da síndrome dos ovários policísticos (SOP) e as respectivas associações com a obesidade, a resistência insulínica (RI), a insulinemia e a síndrome metabólica (SM).MÉTODOS: Em um estudo transversal e prospectivo, foram selecionadas cem pacientes acometidas pela SOP, diagnosticadas segundo o Consenso de Rotterdam (2003). O exame cutâneo i...
Anxiety and inhibition of panic attacks within translational and prospective re...
Cabral,Ruan; Nardi,Antonio EgídioBasic research involving animal models is an important tool to improve our understanding of clinical conditions related with anxiety and panic attacks. In fact, animal models have been used to study several paradigms on analogous and homologous elements of human anxiety phenomena. However, the direct transposition (translation) to clinical practice of the results obtained with animal models may be restricted by...
Percepção de dor aguda em pacientes com transtorno de pânico
Miranda,Fernando Pereira; Crepaldi,Ana Maria; Almeida,Fabrício Fernandes; Cheniaux,Elie; Nardi,Antonio Egídio; Landeira-Fernandez,J.O presente trabalho investigou experimentalmente os limiares nociceptivos e a percepção subjetiva de dor no transtorno de pânico (TP). Trinta e sete pacientes com TP foram voluntariamente submetidos a um Teste Pressor ao Frio (TPF), em que uma de suas mãos era mergulhada em um banho termostatizado de água fria (7ºC) por um período máximo de três minutos. A latência de retirada da mão da água foi utilizada como ...
Impacto dos transtornos depressivos e ansiosos sobre as manifestações da menopausa
Veras,Andre Barciela; Rassi,Arabella; Yukizaki,Livia Mitsue Gomes; Novo,Luisa Duarte; Franco,Flávia Schueler; Nardi,Antonio EgídioOBJETIVO: Determinar, pela primeira vez, em uma amostra ambulatorial brasileira, o impacto dos diagnósticos psiquiátricos sobre os sintomas da menopausa presentes no índice de menopausa de Blatt-Kupperman (B-K). MÉTODOS: Avaliamos consecutivamente, através do instrumento diagnóstico estruturado MINI 4.4 e da entrevista psiquiátrica tradicional, mulheres (n = 86) em atendimento no ambulatório de menopausa do Ins...