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Olanzapine-Induced Fever

O Conceito de Normalidade: Uma Perspectiva da Psiquiatria Forense

Introdução: O conceito da normalidade tem merecido investigação filosófica, antropológica, médica, psicológica, estatística, entre outras, escapando a uma definição única, linear, estática e universal. O patológico surge em diálogo com a normalidade, interessando este debate à psiquiatria forense (PF). Objectivos: Perceber como a PF poderá ser chamada a ajudar a definir os limites e excepções (no Direito) a uma...

Depression and anxiety symptoms following cancer diagnosis: a cross-sectional s...

INTRODUCTION: The aims of the present study were to assess demographic and clinical characteristics of patients after receiving a cancer diagnosis, and to determine possible risk factors for anxiety and depression. METHODS: All consecutive patients aged 18 or above, were assessed before starting intravenous chemotherapy for the first time with the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), the Distress Therm...

Revisitar processos, redefinir direitos: processos de levantamento de interdiçã...

Introdução: Os processos de interdição-inabilitação colidem necessariamente com a liberdade individual, condicionando restrição nos direitos fundamentais. Inexistindo qualquer intenção de pena ou castigo, visam antes a protecção do maior Incapaz, procurando-se a máxima preservação da capacidade e uma proporcionalidade entre as medidas e o grau de incapacidade. Nas perícias psiquiátricas das acções especiais de ...

Causes of Death in an Acute Psychiatric Inpatient Unit of a Portuguese General ...

INTRODUCTION: Psychiatric patients are at increased risk of death from a number of natural and unnatural causes. This study examines the mortality causes of all psychiatric inpatients of an acute psychiatric unit at a general hospital in Portugal for sixteen years (1998 to 2013). MATERIAL AND METHODS: Twenty-one inpatients died at the inpatient unit between 1998 and 2013 (average 1.3 per year). A retrospective ...

Mania de Bell - conceptualização a propósito de um caso clínico

Introdução: A mania de Bell (ou “mania delirante”) constitui um quadro clínico grave, que consiste sucintamente na sobreposição de sintomas de delirium e de mania. Vários autores deram contributos para a definição desta entidade nosológica, não obstante este ser um quadro clínico ainda mal compreendido, não existindo guidelines diagnósticas e terapêuticas, nem se conhecendo muito da sua etiopatogénese. Objectiv...

Efficacy of Electroconvulsive Therapy in Bipolar Disorder with Mixed Features.

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in medication-nonresponsive patients with mixed mania and bipolar depression. METHOD: Forty-one patients with mixed mania (DSM-IV diagnosis of bipolar I disorder, most recent episode mixed) and 23 patients with bipolar depression (DSM-IV diagnosis of bipolar I disorder, most recent episode depressed) consec...

Characteristics of frequent users of an acute psychiatric inpatient unit: a fiv...

OBJECTIVE: This study examined demographic and clinical characteristics of frequent users of a psychiatric inpatient unit in Portugal. METHODS: Data (2004-2008) for 1,348 consecutive psychiatric inpatients were reviewed. Frequent users (N=137), who had at least three admissions in the study period, were compared with nonfrequent users (N=1,211) on age, gender, race-ethnicity, diagnosis, and compulsory admission...

Empathy as related to motivations for medicine in a sample of first-year medica...

Professionalism and empathy are crucial in clinical settings. An association would be expected between empathic attitudes and altruistic motivations for a medical education. However, data is scarce in first-year students, and a previous small-scale study did not fully confirm the hypothesis that person-oriented motives would have a strong relationship to empathy. The present study tested this association in a l...

Kraepelinian systematic paraphrenia as a recognizable disorder

Objectives: To demonstrate that systematic paraphrenia as defined by Kraepelin (the most consistent prototypic paraphrenia subtype) can be recognized and diagnosed. Subjects and methods: All patients admitted to a Portuguese psychiatric inpatient unit between September 2006 and October 2011, meeting the criteria for systematic paraphrenia based on Kraepelin’s definition, Munro’s operational criteria and the aut...