A5012813212- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Psychology and Mental Health
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Psychedelics and Drug Studies
- Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Treatment of Major Depression
- Health, Nursing, Elderly Care
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Ethics in medical practice
- Neurological disorders and treatments
- Reproductive Health and Technologies
- Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
University of Lisbon
2016-2025
Hospital do Desterro
2023-2025
Hospital CUF Descobertas
2023-2024
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
2024
Companhia União Fabril
2022
Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte
2017-2022
King's College London
2015-2019
Hospital de Santa Maria
2012-2016
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
2011
Abstract The prescription of psychotropic drugs has been rising in Europe over the last decade. This study provides a comprehensive profile prepandemic consumption patterns antidepressant, antipsychotic, and anxiolytic Portugal considering full nationwide drug dispensing records (2016–2019) against several criteria, including active ingredient, sociodemographics, medical specialty, incurred costs. An increase 29.6% 34.7% antipsychotics antidepressants between 2016 2019 is highlighted,...
The self-disorder model offers a unifying way of conceptualizing schizophrenia's highly diverse symptoms (positive, negative, disorganized), capturing their distinctive bizarreness, and conceiving longitudinal development. These are viewed as differing manifestations an underlying disorder ipseity or core-self: hyper-reflexivity/diminished-self-presence with accompanying disturbances "grip" "hold" on reality. Recent revision to this phenomenological theory, in particular distinguishing...
Purpose This paper aims to assess the presence of mental health stigma among public safety personnel (PSP) in Portugal. Design/methodology/approach An online self-administered form was applied, including Attribution Questionnaire (AQ-9), Attitudes Towards Mental Health Problems scale (ATMHP) and socio-demographic characterisation: age, gender, marital status, children, education geographical location. The sample included police officers, workers General Directorate Reintegration Prison...
Abstract Schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSDs) are complex syndromes involving psychopathological, cognitive, and also motor symptoms as core features. A better understanding of how these mutually impact each other could translate into diagnostic, prognostic, and, eventually, treatment advancements. The present study aimed to: (1) estimate a network model in SSD; (2) detect communities explore the connectivity relative importance variables within network; (3) differences subsample networks...
<b><i>Background:</i></b> Anomalous self-experiences (ASEs), presumably involving alterations in “core” or “minimal self,” have been studied as manifest schizophrenia and its spectrum, contrast with mood disorder personality samples. This is the first study to examine ASEs panic (PD), beginning exploration of these disturbances subjectivity anxiety disorders. We aimed clarify what might, might not, be specific spectrum domain - which, turn, could useful for developing...
Objetivou-se avaliar o efeito da suplementação com glutamina e nucleotídeos na dieta sobre desempenho morfologia mucosa intestinal de frangos corte criados no sistema alternativo.Foram utilizados 600 pintos machos distribuídos em delineamento blocos casualizados, esquema fatorial 3x2 (três níveis glutamina: 0,0; 0,5 1,0% dois purificados dieta: 0,0 0,04%), totalizando 6 tratamentos, 4 repetições 25 aves cada.Foram obtidos os dados (peso corporal, ganho peso, consumo ração, conversão...
Background: Psychedelics are known for their powerful mental effects due to the activation of 5HT-2A receptors in brain. During 1950s and 1960s, research was conducted on these molecules until criminalization. However, clinical investigation as therapeutic tools psychiatric disorders has revived deontological ethics surrounding this subject. Questions arise outcome becomes a reality. We aim explore understand implications psychedelics clinician, patient, society. Results: A total 42 articles...
Abstract The increasing prevalence of mental health disorders has been matched with growing psychotropic drug consumption rates around the world. Assessing psychopharmacoepidemiological trends and their determinants is essential to guide medical care delivery public policies. However, nation-wide studies on up-to-date patterns are scarce generally disregard important pharmacological, medical, sociodemographic, economic covariates. Previous Portuguese case, a case known for critically high...
Introduction: Alterations of the "pre-reflective" sense first-person perspective (e.g. "basic self") are characteristic features schizophrenic spectrum disorders and significantly present in prodromal phase psychosis subjects at Ultra High Risk for (UHR). Studies healthy controls suggest that neurobiological substrate basic self involves cortical midline structures, such as anterior posterior cingulate cortices. Neuroimaging studies have identified neuroanatomical structures abnormalities...
The Russian-Ukrainian war (RUW) is responsible for extensive individual suffering and a socio-economic impact on the world reshaping global affairs. Many studies have focused direct exposure to conflict several public health policies been devised. Nonetheless, indirect through media has received minimal attention there limited evidence that mental symptoms disorders may arise as result. We explored role of voluntary or involuntary media-based RUW individuals’ including stress symptoms,...
AbstractIn this work we aim to investigate how the COVID-19 pandemic measures influenced frequency of intercourse, auto-erotic behaviors, sexual desire and satisfaction quality couple relationships Portuguese Population. We also aimed address if these changes were different across gender, relationship status (home-based; in-office work). This was an observational cross-sectional study, performed through online survey. included 316 participants. About half participants who in a revealed no...
Depressive and anxious syndromes have been proposed as risk factors consequences of Problematic Internet Use (PIU). There has no study relating affective symptoms in subjects with those major depressive syndromes. In this study, three samples were collected: two from ambulatory clinical settings the North Lisbon Hospital Centre (1. for PIU 2. Out-patient psychiatry consultation adolescents young adults) a control group Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Lisboa. use profile psychopathology...