[Intracranial sinus thrombosis secondary to the consumption of inhaled speed].

Introduction: Speed is a psychostimulant of the Central Nervous System that can cause behavioral alterations, euphoria, psychosis and diverse organic medical pictures.

Clinical Case: The case of a 19 year old male patient, who consumes amphetamines, who had behavioral alterations and heteroaggressiveness, circumstances that required psychiatric admission is presented. After performing brain imaging tests, intracranial venous sinus thrombosis was found, which has not, up to the present date, developed significant symptoms.

Personality profiles of the morbidly obese after vertical banded gastroplasty.

Background: The authors attempted to determine if mental status could predict personality profiles, 18 months after surgery in morbidly obese patients.

Methods: Personality characteristics of 100 morbidly obese patients (85 female, 15 male) were analyzed after bariatric surgery (vertical banded gastroplasty). Patients were given the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-II (MCMI-II).

History of anorexia nervosa in bulimic patients: its influence on body composition.

Objective: To analyze the body composition of a group of patients fulfilling DSM-IV criteria for bulimia nervosa (BN), comparing the patients who had a history of DSM-IV anorexia nervosa (AN) with those without such a history to determine (1) whether both groups differed in terms of body composition and (2) whether the differences between groups could be the consequence of the past condition.

Methods: The sample consisted of 104 patients, 43 with prior AN (BN-AN group) and 61 without a history of AN (BN-nonAN). The patients were assessed using anthropometric and bioelectrical methods: height and weight, body circumferences, abdominal diameter, skinfold thickness, and body impedance analysis.

Gastric surgery and restraint from food as triggering factors of eating disorders in morbid obesity.

Unlabelled: Obese patients may share some clinical features with anorexia nervosa patients because they risk developing an eating disorder when they diet. Methods and Results Some common etiological, psychological, and social factors have been proposed for both disorders. We present two cases of patients suffering from morbid obesity who, after weight loss, presented an intense fear of regaining weight and developed anorexic-like symptoms.