Long-term safety of photobiomodulation exposure to beta cell line and rat islets in vitro and in vivo.

This study evaluates the safety and potential benefits of PBM on pancreatic beta cells and islets. PBM was applied to insulin-secreting cell lines (MIN6) and rat pancreatic islets using a 670 nm light source, continuous output, with a power density of 2.8 mW/cm², from 5 s to several 24 h.

[The painful body of the psychotic. A balance between psychiatric symptoms and somatic diseases in somatic patients].

This paper revises the medical and psychoanalytical studies approaching the relationship between physical and psychiatric symptoms in the psychotic patient, with special attention to P. Marty, A. Andréoli and C.

[The representation of the mental patient in motion pictures].

By the examples of 80 movies from different countries, the study describes the representation of mental patients, in the films. They are shown as victims of family and society. And the psychiatric hospital is never shown as therapeutic, but only used for keeping away, and bringing back the stray sheep to the social fold.