RUIZ VEGUILLA , Miguel

La prevalencia de la ansiedad dental en la población adulta se cifran entre el 11% y el 20%. El objetivo del presente trabajo es identificar los factores asociados al miedo al dentista. Métodos: se evaluó en 98 sujetos que acudieron a una consulta privada de Sevilla capital. Se recogieron datos demográficos, sobre ansiedad y depresión a través...

About 11 to 20% of the population has phobia of the dentists. The main aim of this study is to identify the factors associated with fear of dentist. Methods: The study included 98 subjects who regularly attending a private practice dentists located in Seville during 13 months. A cross-sectional clinical study was carried out involving the...

The aim was to determine whether there are differences between groups in jumping to conclusions and the number of beads required to make a decision based on task difficulty. An assessment was made of 19 patients with non-affective psychosis, 19 with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), and 19 healthy controls. The Beads Task scale was used in...

The startle response is composed by a set of reflex behaviors intended to prepare the organism to face a potentially relevant stimulus. This response can be modulated by several factors as, for example, repeated presentations of the stimulus (startle habituation), or by previous presentation of a weak stimulus (Prepulse Inhibition [PPI]). Both...

Adaptar y validar al español la escala Leiden de Sensibilidad para la Depresión Revisada para evaluar la reactividad cognitiva al humor depresivo. Conocer la estructura facto-rial de la escala y hallar las propiedades psicométricas. La muestra consistió en 600 participantes (103 pacientes y 497 sujetos de población general). Se obtuvo una...

Background: Antipsychotics modulate expression of inflammatory cytokines and inducible inflammatory enzymes. Elopiprazole (a phenylpiperazine antipsychotic drug in phase 1) has been characterized as a therapeutic drug to treat SARS-CoV-2 infection in a repurposing study. We aim to investigate the potential effects of aripiprazole (an FDA...

En trabajos previos registramos la presencia de ideas de referencia con la escala REF de pensamiento referencial. Las diferencias entre pacientes y controles son claras, no siendo así entre categorías diagnósticas, exceptuando los casos de trastornos psicóticos. Objetivos: Nos proponemos verificar si las diferencias entre pacientes y controles...

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Background. Referential thinking (RT) is a common characteristic of human mentation. In psychopathology, RT has been traditionally associated with psychosis. In this study we analyze RT (self-references, SR) differences between clinical and control samples, and we identify variables to predict RT. METHODS. 120 adults (70 patients and 50 control...

In previous works we recorded the presence of ideas of reference (or self-references) with the REF-scale about referential thinking. The differences between patients and controls are clear, but not so clearly between diagnostic categories, except for psychotic disorders. Aims: We try to verify whether the differences between patients and...

Antecedentes: El pensamiento referencial (PR) es una característica común de la actividad mental humana. En psicopatología, el PR se suele asociar a las psicosis. Este estudio analiza las diferencias en PR (auto-referencias, AR) entre una muestra clínica y de control. Se identifican variables que predicen el PR. Método: 120 adultos (70...

The ideas of reference (IOR) are observable in varied psychopathological manifestations, although predominate in psychotic disorders. We tried to study the IOR according to their content (observation, communication, and other IOR). We tried to determine if these kinds of IOR are separable, and also to observe their relationship with some...

Despite the accepted link between childhood abuse and positive psychotic symptoms, findings between other ad versities, such as neglect, and the remaining dimensions in people with psychosis have been inconsistent, with evidence not yet reviewed quantitatively. The aim of this study was to systematically examine quantitatively the...

Background Cardiometabolic dysfunction is common in young people with psychosis. Recently, the Psychosis Metabolic Risk Calculator (PsyMetRiC) was developed and externally validated in the UK, predicting up-to six-year risk of metabolic syndrome (MetS) from routinely collected data. The full-model includes age, sex, ethnicity, body-mass index,...

Background Substantial evidence supports the existence of neurocognitive endophenotypes in bipolar disorder (BD), but very few longitudinal studies have included unaffected relatives. In a 5-year, follow-up, family study, we have recently suggested that deficits in manual motor speed and visual memory could be endophenotype candidates for BD....

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder with complex clinical manifestations that arise between 18 and 36 months of age. Social interaction defciencies, a restricted range of interests, and repetitive stereotyped behaviors are characteristics which are sometimes difcult to detect early. Several studies show that...

Background Negative symptoms (NS) may be observed in the general population in an attenuated form and in high-risk mental states. However, they have been less studied in the general population than positive symptoms, in spite of their importance at the insidious onset of schizophrenia and their appearance before positive symptoms. This study...

Background: Few investigations have been carried out on metabolic syndrome in antipsychotic- naïve patients with schizophrenia. Methods: Our primary objective was to compare the prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome (MetS), as defined by the National Cholesterol Education Program, Adult Treatment Panel III in 2001 (NCEP-ATP III), between a...

A currently very important line of research in psychology is about Ambivalent Sexism (that has two sub-components: hostile sexism –SH- and benevolent sexism –SB-). This construct appears related to health and psychosocial risk factors in the general female population. This research aims to investigate the relationship between the ambivalent...

Introduction Health-care Workers (HCW) are facing a critical situation caused by Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) which could impact on their mental health status. In addition, HCW women have been identified as a group at high-risk of developing psychological distress, although no previous longitudinal studies have explored this issue in a...