N Spatz, H Spatz, H L Mesones Arroyo, T Rosan, F Brengio
{"title":"[Elimination of N,N-dimethyltryptamine by urine].","authors":"N Spatz, H Spatz, H L Mesones Arroyo, T Rosan, F Brengio","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>N,N-dimethiltryptamine (DMT) in urine has been quantified on an 83-psychiatric patient sample. Sample covered patients who had sometimes been administered neuroleptic drugs as well as patients with some particular symptomatology associated to psychotic disorders such as hallucinations, delusions, perception disorders, etc. 43.3% (36 cases) evidenced an abnormally high DMT in urine (0.9-13.5 mcg/24 h). Higher values were more frequently found in both schizophrenic patients, and non-schizophrenic patients with either hallucinations, delusions, anorexia or bulimia. Most patients with DMT normal values (< 0.5 mcg/24 h) presented either mental retardation, cerebral atrophy or dysrhythmias. A very good correlation was found between urinary DMT abnormally high values, and patients' improvement after such patients had been treated with neuroleptic drugs.</p>","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"39 3","pages":"212-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1993-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18904648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Science, bioethics, bionomy: a transdisciplinary program].","authors":"F Lolas Stepke","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"39 3","pages":"191-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1993-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19284140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Death. Euthanasia].","authors":"J C Ortiz de Zárate","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this life of ours, the most important thing is life itself--even though this sounds like a truism. However, perspectives differ when it comes to evaluating life; that is, what are we able and willing to \"pay\" just for keeping it? Without mentioning that risking one's own life may be a source of profit. At times. Besides, other people's life is appraised according to different criteria: Some circumstances suggest that disposing of others' life--i.e. eliminating it good and proper--is advisable. Whenever such a decision is made, apparently for the sick person's own good, the physician in charge must go in for it. In such cases, the conditioning factors of a physician's behavior are questionable. Brain death, for instance, is a good example.</p>","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"39 3","pages":"206-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1993-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19284144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Psychology training in Latin America].","authors":"A R Vilanova","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although there is not such a thing as a sole criterion to define the origins of Psychology as an autonomous discipline, it is the author's contention that the roots for such an autonomy are to be found in the emergence of professional psychologists in the USA by the turn of the 19th century. Latin America has based its academic courses on the utilitarian, professionally-oriented American pattern considering, however, European sources for designing curricula. Latin American countries with a higher development level such as Mexico, Colombia, and Brazil are endowed with an excellent level as regards both their advancements in research, and legal achievements. Despite the different national traits, Latin American Psychology as a whole shares common features such as: its being originated in Humanities Departments at universities, its evolution from Psychometrics to the fostering of human resources, and its struggles so that it could eventually be differentiated from other professions. It is rather difficult to issue reliable predictions for the time being since quite heterogeneous social as well as historical factors bear on Latin American science and Latin American professionals alike.</p>","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"39 3","pages":"193-205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1993-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19284142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[San Hipólito and the Divino Salvador: the first psychiatric hospitals in America].","authors":"G Calderón Narváez","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"39 3","pages":"254-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1993-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19285381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Overweight and obesity in Chilean women. A multivariate characterization based on psychophysiologic indicators].","authors":"M I Schiattino, M T Sanfuentes, F Lolas Stepke","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper presents a reanalysis of previously collected data using multivariate statistical methods. Aside from confirming the discrimination between obese, and normal-weight women through psychometric indicators including a personality evaluation, and a verbal affective expression assessment, the power of multivariate methods for improving diagnosis is illustrated.</p>","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"39 3","pages":"238-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1993-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19285379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[A methodological contribution to the knowledge on psychosocial alienation].","authors":"L Marín, A Rodríguez Kauth, L Ottaviano","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A methodological approach to the study of alienation at a psychological level is discussed. Owing to the methodological purpose of the research at stake, researchers paid attention to the fact that the questionnaire items had been written in the first person singular--a fact that encouraged researchers to work anew, on the hypothesis of the personal implication of subjects with the items contents. A conclusion was thus reached that an item written in first person singular dissuades subjects from telling what they think or feel actually, inducing subjects to produce social desirability-oriented answers.</p>","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"39 3","pages":"246-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1993-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19285380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Patients cared for at the mental health unit of a primary care office: morbidity study].","authors":"A Roizblatt, D Humphrey, C Fullerton","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Establishing the frequency of mental disorders among patients cared for at the mental health unit of a primary care outpatient clinic of Santiago, Chile, is intended. In this connection, 618 medical records have been screened retrospectively (i.e. a whole universe excepting patients under age 15). A great majority of patients--with an absolute ratio of female patients (88.8%) were referrals from physicians' offices. The most frequent disorders were anxiety disorders and adjustment disorders. Comments are made on (a): the scarcity of referrals from larger general hospitals, and (b) the need for mechanisms apt at an early detection of the most frequent disorders to be set up.</p>","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"39 3","pages":"231-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1993-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19285378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A Gómez, A Barreras, E Jaar, F Lolas Stepke, L Suárez, C Núñez
{"title":"[Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of women who attempted suicide].","authors":"A Gómez, A Barreras, E Jaar, F Lolas Stepke, L Suárez, C Núñez","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sociodemographic and clinical features of 124 female suicide attempters, referred to the psychiatric unit of a general hospital have been assessed by means of semistructured interviews, and Pierce's Suicide Intent Scale. Mean age was 30.8 +/- 9.8 years. Subjects' socioeconomic and educational status were low. Attempts were impulsive in 70%, the most frequent method subjects resorted to was overdose (68%). Most common causes for the attempt were difficulties with either marital life or relatives. The attempt was assessed as severe in 45% of cases. Previous attempts were found in 56%. At assessment, 50% of subjects were with Major Depression (DMS-III-R). Subjects with recurrent depressive disorders evidenced a significantly higher rate of severe attempts, and previous suicidal episodes. Findings reported herein are relevant to a secondary prevention of suicidal behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"39 3","pages":"223-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1993-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19285376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Psychoactive substance abuse. Basis for a regional epidemiologic surveillance system].","authors":"H A Míguez","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A profile of alcohol and drug abusers in many a Latin American country features large groups with no or insufficient access to health services. In the light of such a situation, health resources should focus their efforts on addressing the effects instead of the causes of the problem. Both developing and strengthening local health systems should be a part of the overall effort. Every regional epidemiologic surveillance system must be decentralized, taking into account social participation, local limitations, as well as health personnel training. Placing an emphasis on research as an instrument for action is crucial for Latin America.</p>","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"39 3","pages":"217-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1993-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19284146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}