Publications by authors named "Clarissa Rosalmeida Dantas"
Article Synopsis
- This study examined post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) in head and neck cancer patients, focusing on their relationship with demographic factors, psychological aspects, and genetic variants.
- It included 155 patients split into two groups, one before the COVID-19 pandemic and one during it, using standardized questionnaires and genetic testing to gather data.
- Results indicated that younger age and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) increased PTSS before the pandemic, while during the pandemic, history of depression and negative pandemic effects were major contributors to elevated PTSS scores.
Objective: Psychiatric comorbidities are common in physical illness and significantly affect health outcomes. Attitudes of general hospital doctors toward psychiatry are important as they influence referral patterns and quality of care. Little is known about these attitudes and their cultural correlates.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSimplifying the human serum proteome for discriminating patients with bipolar disorder of other psychiatry conditions.
Clin Biochem
December 2017
Purpose: An exploratory analysis using proteomic strategies in blood serum of patients with bipolar disorder (BD), and with other psychiatric conditions such as Schizophrenia (SCZ), can provide a better understanding of this disorder, as well as their discrimination based on their proteomic profile.
Methods: The proteomic profile of blood serum samples obtained from patients with BD using lithium or other drugs (N=14), healthy controls, including non-family (HCNF; N=3) and family (HCF; N=9), patients with schizophrenia (SCZ; N=23), and patients using lithium for other psychiatric conditions (OD; N=4) were compared. Four methods for simplifying the serum samples proteome were evaluated for both removing the most abundant proteins and for enriching those of lower-abundance: protein depletion with acetonitrile (ACN), dithiothreitol (DTT), sequential depletion using DTT and ACN, and protein equalization using commercial ProteoMiner® kit (PM).
Objective: The authors reviewed demographic and clinical characteristics of undergraduates at a Brazilian public university (UNICAMP) who visited the campus mental health service (SAPPE) and compared their demographics with those from all undergraduate students enrolled in the university.
Participants: The authors looked at data from all undergraduates who sought counseling or mental health care at SAPPE over a 17-year period (N = 2,203; 1987-2004).
Methods: They obtained this information from clinical charts and a UNICAMP database.