Introduction: Borderline Personality Disorder affects 2% to 6% of adults in the United States. It is a condition of high relevance in psychiatric disorders due to characteristics such as impulsivity, unstable interpersonal ...

Introduction: It has been found that 50% of the population with Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder present symptoms during their adult ages, causing difficulties at functional level and in their life quality. This ...

Although there have been five years since its approval in the United States for the management of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), in Colombia the use of aripiprazole for this indication remains off-label. In this context, ...

The use of entheogens has been present in the most of the cultures around the world since ancient times. Its use has been characteristic for spiritual-ritual, recreational, medicinal and psychotherapeutic purposes. In ...

Background: Substances use is a public health problem that should be approached from different perspectives. Studies shows several factors involved, age of first use, risk information, social circle and personal history. ...

The following degree paper is a literature review about the complex problem of addiction from a psychoanalytic perspective; for this purpose, research databases were consulted, such as PepWeb, Ebsco and Jstor, reviewing ...

Introduction: The harmful consumption of alcohol is one of the main causes of death and disability, and this consumption affects more than 300 thousand young people between 15 and 29 years. In Colombia, although adolescents ...

Introduction: Melatonin, an endogenous chronobiotic substance, is increasingly used for the management of sleep problems in older adults because of their apparent efficacy and safety. Here, we aimed to assess the effectiveness ...

Objective: Chronic non-cancer pain constitutes a worldwide public health problem. Sometimes it requires management with prescription opioids, which use can be associated with complications such as misuse/abuse of these ...

The purpose of this paper is to show through a literature review how the concept of depression and its treatments changed and developed during the twentieth century. Despite that the history of depression dates back to the ...