Publications by authors named "Etienne Kimmel"

Background: Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a severe psychiatric disorder associated with frequent relapses and variability in treatment responses. Previous literature suggested that such variability is influenced by premorbid vulnerabilities such as abnormalities of the reward system. Several factors may indicate these vulnerabilities, such as neurocognitive markers (tendency to favour delayed reward, poor cognitive flexibility, abnormal decision process), genetic and epigenetic markers, biological and hormonal markers, and physiological markers.

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The Litterapsy study focuses on the assessment of health literacy in patients with psychiatric disorders, a field that has been little studied in France. It is based on the observations of an advanced practice nurse specializing in psychosocial rehabilitation. Its aim is to provide objective data to better understand how these patients understand medical information and navigate the healthcare system.

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Covid-19 did not spare the psychiatric care services. At the Sainte-Anne Hospital, as in the medicine-surgery-obstetrics departments, several care units had to be transformed and organised in order to accommodate positive patients who did not need to be admitted to intensive care. Feedback on the transformation of a care structure of the "Clinique des maladies mentales et de l'encéphale" for more than two months.

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