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Abuzul de o substanţă este un pattern maladaptativ al utilizării acesteia care conduce la o suferinţă sau disfuncţie semnificative.

Over the last decades, psychologists and psychiatrists have extensively debated and researched the dissociative phenomena. Nevertheless, they have not reached a consensus concerning the significance of the term. The...

Introduction: Because the onset in bipolar affective disorder (BD) is often with a depressive episode (or several episodes), differentiating it from recurrent depressive disorder (RDD) can be difficult in...

Introduction: Assessment of suicidality after accidents, paired with active identification of protective factors against suicide, can generate more effective management strategies tailored to...

Introduction: Breast cancer is considered to be the most frequently encountered form of malignancy in women; it generates the fifth cause of cancer death and remains the main cause...

Borderline personality disorder remains a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge for both psychopathology and clinicians. Diffuse identity, emotional instability, chronic disruption of attachment behavior and interpersonal relationships lead to maladaptive...

Facilitating Mental Health, Primary Care & Public Health Integration for Southeast Europe & Eurasia Bucharest, Romania, 10-13 April, 2013, The Palace of the Parliament www.wpa2013bucharest.org Prof. Pedro Ruiz, Congress...

The interface between the humanities sciences is given u n d e r t h e i r p h i l o s o p...

This article presents the historical significance of Jaspers's book General Psychopathology, published 100 years ago. Are discussed main ideas through their influence on clinical psychopathology of the XX century....

Health systems worldwide remain quite fragmented, affecting access to preventive and curative health care services, quality and costs. Strengthening health systems is a global challenge for all countries regardless...

Brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is a neurotrophin related to neuronal survival, synaptic signaling and synaptic consolidation that enhances the growth and maintenance of several neuronal systems, serves as...

Aging is one of the most significant social phenomena of the twenty-first century. The world's elderly population is growing at a rate of 2.4% per year, faster than the...

Introduction: Data about differences in first episode schizophrenia patients are rather scant. Some (but not all) studies seem to indicate that there are some differences between sexes regarding prevalence,...

Introduction: Persistent delusional disorders still represent a controversial psychopathological area, an aspect that has led the majority of researchers to unjustly keep away from it. In the last decade...

Introduction: Cognitive deficits particularly in memory, attention, verbal fluency and executive functions are considered to be core and stable features of schizophrenia, with great influence on functional outcomes. There...