Cognitive Impairment and Depressive Symptoms in a Patient With Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Full Recovery After CPAP Treatment.

Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSA) is associated with neuropsychiatric symptoms, including cognitive impairment and depression. It is important to be aware of this association since these comorbid symptoms may be misdiagnosed as a primary psychiatric condition. We report a case of a 60-year-old man with depressive symptoms and cognitive impairment, with important deficits in memory and great functional impairment.

Dysconnectivity within the default mode in first-episode schizophrenia: a stochastic dynamic causal modeling study with functional magnetic resonance imaging.

We report the first stochastic dynamic causal modeling (sDCM) study of effective connectivity within the default mode network (DMN) in schizophrenia. Thirty-three patients (9 women, mean age = 25.0 years, SD = 5) with a first episode of psychosis and diagnosis of schizophrenia--according to the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition, revised criteria--were studied.

Forty years of a psychiatric day hospital.

Introduction: Day hospitals in psychiatry are a major alternative to inpatient care today, acting as key components of community and social psychiatry.

Objective: To study trends in the use of psychiatric day hospitals over the last decades of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century, focusing on patient age, sex, and diagnostic group, using data from Centro Hospitalar São João, Porto, Portugal.

Methods: Data corresponding to years 1970 to 2009 were collected from patient files.

[Mental health of college students: experience of the university psychiatric outpatient clinic of Hospital de São João].

The mental health of college students has been raising major awareness, due to the increased prevalence and severity of psychiatric disorders in this population. Higher education is associated with significant stressors that contribute to the development of mental health disturbances, and most college students are in the high-risk age group for the emergence of symptoms of major psychiatric disorders. Early diagnosis and treatment of these disorders in college students are important areas of effort, since they pose a high impact at the educational, economic, and social levels.