Long-term Amelioration of OCD Symptoms in a Patient with Chronic Consumption of Psilocybin-containing Mushrooms.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a chronic neuropsychiatric condition, characterized by obsessions and compulsions, which is usually disabling for the suffering individual. The first-line treatment is not effective in all patients. There is evidence showing the effectiveness of psilocybin and psilocybin-containing mushrooms in the treatment of OCD symptoms.

The Benzodiazepine Dependence Questionnaire (BDEPQ): validity and reliability in Mexican psychiatric patients.

Background: Benzodiazepine (BZD) dependence is a condition generally circumscribed to a therapeutic framework. Up to 44% of chronic users become dependent. The widespread use of BZD in psychiatry requires the evaluation of psychometric properties of self-reported instruments to characterize this phenomenon.

Medication use during hemodialysis in children with end-stage renal disease in a Mexican pediatric hospital.

Chronic renal failure requiring dialysis or transplantation is known as end-stage renal disease. Several drugs are used to treating the symptoms, co-morbid conditions and treatment side effects of end-stage renal disease. We investigated drug treatment during the period of hemodialysis in children with end-stage renal disease in the Hospital del Niño DIF, Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico.