{"title":"[Psychopharmaceuticals from the public health perspective].","authors":"B Saraceno","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"40 1","pages":"63-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1994-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19050228","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":"[The psychiatric diagnostic task].","authors":"J J Saurí","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When glancing through the works of different authors, two different modes--related to a predominance of either the naturalistic believes, or the crisis thereof--can be detected. Of both modes, the former devised diagnosis as aimed at a cognitive goal yielding a kind of \"photograph\" of symptoms and signs that had been scrutinized. The latter devised diagnosis as a task that had to be undertaken. The main points of both trends are reviewed.</p>","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"40 1","pages":"27-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1994-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19050225","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":"[Drug combinations of lithium: reasons and limitations].","authors":"A J Lagomarsino","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Lithium is widely used in the treatment of several psychiatric diseases-bipolar mood disorder, in particular. It is often necessary to have lithium combined with other psychopharmacological agents when efforts are aimed at either enhancing a less-than-optimal therapeutic effect or treating other symptoms as well. A therapist should be familiar with every possibility, limitation, and probable risk such pharmacological combinations are likely to lead to.</p>","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"39 4","pages":"319-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1993-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19181985","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}
C Marco Sanz, E Cepero Moreno, S Narín Ballabriga, P Trasmonte Lienas, J Castellote Olitivo
{"title":"[Space perception in cerebral hemisphere damage. Neuropsychological study].","authors":"C Marco Sanz, E Cepero Moreno, S Narín Ballabriga, P Trasmonte Lienas, J Castellote Olitivo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present study was aimed at using both semiotic and symbolic spaces as an exploratory method of the simultaneous synthesis, and interhemispherical transfers among hemiplegic patients. Thirty-six hemiplegic patients with an established neurological deficit were selected, then split into two groups: 19 patients with their dominant hemispheres affected, 17 patients with their subordinate hemispheres affected. The following types of patients have been excluded from this study: Patients with cerebral degenerative and/or progressive alterations, patients with sensory aphasias, and damage to the counterlateral side opposite the hemiplegic side. Age range was 67.2 (with 45-year-old as a minimum, and 70-year-old as a maximum). Subjects were 11 females and 25 males. Both the semiotic, and the symbolic spaces have been explored as well as the existence of a parietal, sensitive syndrome, and damage topography by means of a scanner device. A major damage of the symbolic space in patients with their dominant hemispheres affected was observed. Conversely, semiotic space, in its figurative trait, was most affected in patients with their subordinate hemispheres affected.</p>","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"39 4","pages":"309-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1993-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19181984","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":"[Gerontology, a problematic science].","authors":"F Lolas Stepke","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"39 4","pages":"283-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1993-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19181979","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":"[Restructuration of psychiatric care in Latin America].","authors":"I Levav, H Restrepo, C Guerra de Macedo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Both the epidemiological and program bases for action are reviewed as well as the political, historical, and technical background of the Initiative for a Re-structuration Psychiatric Care in Latin America. Attention is also paid to (a) the wide repercussion of this new-old health policy, (b) procedures for its implementation, and (c) the main obstacles the Initiative has been facing to date. Results obtained so far are reviewed.</p>","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"39 4","pages":"285-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1993-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19181981","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":"[Patterns of drug abuse among youngsters of upper social class].","authors":"H A Míguez, R Magri","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Street drug use, and alcohol abuse among young adults from a high social class range were studied in the posh seaside resort of Punta del Este (Uruguay) during the (austral) summer vacation (February 1993). In this connection, an anthropological methodology was applied: Four young people were trained in systematic record and observation technics abilities. Results suggest two clearly defined social-cultural patterns with regard to both cannabis, and cocaine use. Both patterns take place within a social environment agreeable to drug use as well as strongly connected with social interaction ways peculiar to high-class youth.</p>","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"39 4","pages":"294-300"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1993-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19181982","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":"[Charcot and psychiatry].","authors":"L Meyer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"39 4","pages":"281-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1993-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19181980","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":"[Locus of control: differences by sex and age].","authors":"A Tamayo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To explore gender-, and age-related differences on locus of control orientation, the Levenson's Tri-factorial Scale was administered to a 1200-male/female Brazilian subjects sample within a 17-to-56 age range. Anova 2X7 found out a main effect due to gender on the \"Powerful Others\" factor, men scoring higher than women. Reliable age differences were observed at the level of internality factor when scoring for \"Total Internality\". Generally speaking, internality increased with age.</p>","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"39 4","pages":"301-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1993-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19181983","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":"[The myth of the saint of the sword].","authors":"V Cecchi, N Yampey","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The authors delve into an Argentine enigma: The character of Gen. José de San Martin--a historical figure that has been sacralized as Father of the Homeland, and hailed by historians as a saint with a sword. A short biographical sketch is offered prior to an analysis of Gen. San Martin's psychological traits coupled to his work with masonic lodges that allowed him to display his abilities as strategist and political ruler. The mystery of his giving up his military and political tasks after his meeting with Simon Bolivar in Guayaquil can be compared to an epilogue to the \"destiny\" of a paradigmatic hero. Such a paradigm unites Gen. San Martin's own traits on the one hand, and a longing for a powerful fatherly image among Latin American communities, on the other hand. San Martin was no saint, no prophet, and no \"shrewd half-breed\" whose ultimate ambitions fell apart: Instead, he was a stoic revolutionary very much \"de son temps\"--however, his fellow countrymen simply cannot accept or admit that he was no worshipper or that his were very human qualities, and defects.</p>","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"39 4","pages":"326-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1993-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19183440","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}