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    Uso de Antidepresivos y Suicidio en el Trastorno Bipolar 

    Undurraga Fourcade, Juan Pablo (Date of defense: 2013-11-27)

    Introducción. El trastorno bipolar (TB) tiene un gran impacto en las personas que lo padecen y una mortalidad por suicidio hasta 20 veces mayor que el resto de la población. La depresión bipolar es uno de los principales ...

    The Role of the Human Auditory Middle Latency Response in Auditory Novelty Detection 

    Althen, Heike Corinna (Date of defense: 2014-01-17)

    One way of structuring the huge amount of sound input reaching the human ear, is extracting sound objects, which are formed by stimuli having a certain regularity in common. Mismatching stimuli are detected pre-attentively ...

    Cognitive Functioning and Quality of Life in Patients with Dual Diagnosis 

    Benaiges Fusté, Irina (Date of defense: 2013-06-27)

    Dual Diagnosis (DD) is the co-occurrence of a Severe Mental Illness (SMI), commonly a major psychotic or affective disorder, and a Substance Use Dependence Disorder (SUD). It is a highly prevalent disorder with a large ...

    Neuroinflammation in first episodes of psychosis 

    Bioque Alcázar, Miquel (Date of defense: 2013-10-14)

    Around 3% of the general population suffers a first episode of psychosis (FEP). The population of FEPs represents a unique opportunity to study psychotic disorders in general and schizophrenia in particular, avoiding ...

    Structural And Functional Connectivity Alterations And Their Relationship With Cognitive Impairment In Traumatic Brain Injury 

    Palacios, Eva M. (Date of defense: 2013-05-31)

    Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) can be defined as an alteration in brain function or evidence of brain pathology caused by an external force. In this thesis the focus of attention is on brain diffuse axonal injury (DAI). DAI ...

    Estats mixtes, viratges i antidepressius: estudi d'una cohort de pacients bipolars 

    Valentí Ribas, Marc (Date of defense: 2012-02-21)

    El trastorn bipolar és una malaltia crònica i recurrent, caracteritzada per l’aparició d’episodis d´(hipo)mania i/o estats mixtes, que alternen, de manera irregular, amb episodis de depressió. Tot i que l’elevació i ...

    Propiedades reguladoras del humor de los antipsicóticos atípicos en los episodios afectivos del trastorno bipolar 

    Goikolea Alberdi, José Manuel (Date of defense: 2012-11-07)

    La aparición de los antipsicóticos atípicos o de segunda generación ha supuesto un gran cambio en el manejo de los pacientes con trastorno bipolar. Los ensayos controlados han demostrado la eficacia de prácticamente todos ...

    Brain mechanisms of executive control: Event-related potentials and oscillations in schizophrenic patients and healthy controls during task-switching 

    Finke, Mareike (Date of defense: 2013-01-18)

    The brain's ability to represent, maintain and update contextual (task-set) information enables us to alternate successfully between different tasks. Task-set reconfiguration is required when task demands change, as goal ...

    The neural correlates of cognitive impairment in schizophrenia / Els correlats neurals del dèficit cognitiu en l’esquizofrènia 

    Ortiz Gil, Jordi (Date of defense: 2012-09-14)

    Background: In recent years it has become recognized that schizophrenia is associated with cognitive impairment, which affects particularly executive function and memory. Although cognitive impairment implies brain damage ...

    Biomarkers of cognitive decline and dementia 

    Miralbell Blanch, Júlia (Date of defense: 2012-07-13)

    Cognitive impairment in the elderly encompasses many forms, ranging from subtle impairments in otherwise cognitively healthy individuals through mild cognitive impairment and dementia. Brain structural and functional changes ...

    Verbal Fluency in Parkinson`s disease: neuroanatomical correlates and functional networks modulated by noninvasive brain stimulation 

    Braga Pereira, Joana (Date of defense: 2012-07-20)

    Parkinson’s disease (PD) is currently the second most common neurodegenerative disorder after Alzheimer’s disease (AD), affecting 100.000 people in Spain and more than 4 million people worldwide. Being a movement disorder, ...

    Prevalence, clinical correlates and factors associated with course and outcome of anxiety disorders in youth with bipolar disorders 

    Sala Cassola, Regina (Date of defense: 2011-12-14)

    OBJECTIVE: Anxiety disorders are among the most common comorbid conditions in youth with bipolar disorder (BP). We aimed to examine the prevalence, correlates, persistence (>50% of the follow-up time), and the onset of new ...

    Característiques clíniques i neuropsicològiques en nens i adolescents d’alt risc per esquizofrènia 

    de la Serna Gómez, Elena (Date of defense: 2011-11-30)

    El resum presentat es basa en els resultats dels següents treballs: ­Relationship between clinical and neuropsychological characteristics in child and adolescent first degree relatives of subjects with schizophrenia. de ...

    Regularity encoding in the auditory brain as revealed by human evoked potentials 

    Costa Faidella, Jordi (Date of defense: 2011-12-19)

    Acoustic regularity encoding has been associated with a decrease of the neural response to repeated stimulation underlying the representation of auditory objects in the brain. The present thesis encloses two studies that ...

    Influencia de la reserva cognitiva en la estructura y funcionalidad cerebral en el envejecimiento sano y patológico 

    Bosch Capdevila, Beatriz (Date of defense: 2010-12-17)

    INTRODUCCIÓN: El envejecimiento es un factor de riesgo para enfermedades neurodegenerativas como la Enfermedad de Alzheimer (EA), que constituye la demencia más frecuente. Uno de los objetivos de la comunidad científica, ...

    Factores incidentes en la reproducción y desarrollo de los primates en cautividad: conservación “ex situ” de los gorilas occidentales (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) 

    Abelló Poveda, Mª Teresa (Date of defense: 2010-12-13)

    Esta investigación se basa en los problemas detectados en la reproducción y desarrollo de los grandes simios y específicamente en los gorilas de las poblaciones que se mantienen ex situ dentro del proyecto de conservación ...

    Funcionament psicosocial en el trastom bipolar: Factors implicats i seguiment als 4 anys 

    Bonnín Roig, Caterina del Mar (Date of defense: 2011-06-20)

    El trastorn bipolar és una malaltia altament discapacitant i que té un gran impacte en la vida dels pacients. L’any 2007, el Programa de Trastorn Bipolar de l’Hospital Clínic juntament amb la col•laboració d’altres centres ...

    Patrón de conducta tipo A y pautas educativas 

    Castro Fornieles, Josefina (Date of defense: 1993-07-03)

    A finales de la década de los años cincuenta, dos cardiólogos, M. Friedman y R.H. Rosenman (1959), identificaron una serie de actitudes y comportamientos en sus pacientes coronarios que consideraron favorecían la aparición ...

    Psicopatología en familiares de primer grado de niños y adolescentes con trastorno obsesivo-compulsivo 

    Calvo Escalona, Rosa (Date of defense: 2006-02-17)

    <br/><br/>El Trastorno Obsesivo-Compulsivo (TOC) como entidad clínica está definido en el DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM-IV; American Psychiatric Association, 1984) y consiste en el ...

    The vegetative and the minimally conscious state: brain function, connectivity and structural abnormalities 

    Fernández Espejo, Davinia (Date of defense: 2010-12-10)

    The Vegetative State (VS) is a clinical condition characterized by wakefulness in the absence of awareness of self or environment. A person in a VS retains autonomic functions but exhibits no evidence of voluntary responses ...