Croyances & Psychologie
Cet outil permet de faciliter la veille sur les enjeux complexes de la santé mentale et du fait religieux : de la neuroscience des croyances à l'étude des abus spirituels, en passant par la prise en charge des traumatismes et des processus de déconversion.
Dernière synchronisation : 01/09/2026
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has long been associated with epilepsy The link with temporal lobe (usually refractory) epilepsy (TLE) is particularly prominent Of TLE patients, 10% to 22% of pati…
BACKGROUND: Few studies have examined the impact of gender, age at onset, phenotype and comorbidity in pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in children. In this naturalistic study we consider…
BACKGROUND: A wide spectrum of prodromal symptoms has been reported, but their association with the severity of the active phase psychopathology in relationship to sex is unknown.METHOD: Seventy-three…
The aim of this paper is to summarize the limited literature on clinical vampirism, vampire cults and the involvement of adolescents in vampire-like behavior. The various definitions of clinical vampi…
CONTEXT: In Tanzania and some other African rural settings, a traditional proscription of injections for the treatment of cerebral malaria (degedege) stems from parents' fear that injections will kill…
This historical treatise follows the documented timeline of tooth decay into today's understanding, treatment, and teaching of caries biology. Caries has been attributed to many different causes for s…
In medicine we tend to restrict practice to using a purely intellectual understanding grounded in science to conceptualize patients and their illnesses. This approach is radically different from the e…
BACKGROUND: Male genital self-mutilation (GSM) is a rare, but serious phenomenon. Some of the risk factors for this act are: presence of religious delusions, command hallucinations, low self-esteem an…
BACKGROUND/AIMS: Spirituality and religiousness have been shown to be highly prevalent in patients with psychosis. Yet the influence of religious denomination as it affects coping methods and/or as an…
Bipolar disorder is a chronic mental illness with a profound personal and public health costs attached to it. The majority of patients suffering from bipolar disorder have an onset prior to the fifth …
We varied the format and semantic content of primes to determine the degree to which they would influence the interpretation of ambiguous figures. The primes were objects or object names that were rel…
Early neurology in German-speaking countries evolved aside from mainstream medicine. Animists like Stahl in the 18th century saw the soul as the cause of health and disease, and the later Vitalists in…