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Hall F

Spanish Language Sessions
Session Type
Spanish Language Sessions
Date
10/19/2021
Session Time
01:30 PM - 02:30 PM
Room
Hall F
Chair(s)
  • Thelma S. Sánchez-Villanueva (Mexico)
Spanish Language Sessions
Session Type
Spanish Language Sessions
Date
10/20/2021
Session Time
08:00 AM - 09:00 AM
Room
Hall F
Chair(s)
  • Jorge M. Manzanares (Spain)
Session Description
The purpose of this symposium is to present the role of endocannabinoids and some of the phytocannabinoids in psychiatric disorders. It is becoming highly relevant to study the role of endogenous cannabinoids in psychiatric diseases before to design treatments of synthetic or phytocannabinoids to alleviate symptoms in these patients. One of the talks of the symposium will focus on the role of endocannabinoids as potential biomarkers in psychiatric disorders, especially in anxiety-related disorders. Alterations in endogenous cannabinoid ligands must be identified to design appropriate treatments with specific cannabinoids to alleviate different symptoms in these patients. Cannabidiol (CBD) has gained great interest in the last years due to the lack of drug abuse potential and a high degree of tolerability and safety. The second talk of the symposium will review animal and clinical studies with CBD and will point out the advantages and drawbacks regarding the use of this compound for the treatment of anxiety-related disorders. The bioavailability of CBD in oral administration together and the high degree of inhibition of certain cytochromes suggest that potential interaction with several central nervous system drugs should be carefully evaluated. The third talk will examine the role of CBD and sertraline in a new animal model of PTSD of long duration associated with alcohol self-administration. The results of these animal studies suggest the convenience to assay the association od CBD and sertraline in controlled clinical trials in patients with PTSD with or without problems related to alcohol consumption.

Hall G

Spanish Language Sessions
Session Type
Spanish Language Sessions
Date
10/18/2021
Session Time
12:45 PM - 01:45 PM
Room
Hall G
Chair(s)
  • Santiago Levin (Argentina)
Spanish Language Sessions
Session Type
Spanish Language Sessions
Date
10/18/2021
Session Time
02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
Room
Hall G
Chair(s)
  • Juan D. Palacio-Ortiz (Colombia)
Session Description
Studies in siblings of subjects with ADHD, specifically on psychosocial adversity, have been conducted in developed countries, but there are no known studies in a low/middle-income country, which has different genetic and environmental components. We aim to determine the psychosocial adversity and family characteristics, as potential risk factors associated, in a group of siblings of patients with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), in low/middle-income countries. We will present the results of a multicenter study. We studied siblings of subjects with ADHD with a set of instruments to assess the presence of mental disorders. Rutter indicators of adversity (RIA) were used to measure psychosocial adversity, including low social class, severe marital discord, large family size, paternal criminality, and maternal mental disorder. We will present the most frequent adversity factors in the whole sample and also their role in psychiatric disorders development in the high-risk siblings. Doctor Martinez will present results from the Colombian sample and doctor Palacios-Cruz the Mexican sample. We will present the high prevalence of ADHD in this sibling at risk in a low/middle-income country. It seems that this risk for ADHD is not only determined by a parent with an ADHD history but also by the presence of other environmental and psychosocial factors. We will explain that the best predictor for ADHD in these siblings is to have 3 or more RIA. Attendees will learn about the main psychosocial risk factors for ADHD.
Spanish Language Sessions
Session Type
Spanish Language Sessions
Date
10/19/2021
Session Time
08:00 AM - 09:00 AM
Room
Hall G
Chair(s)
  • Angela R. Acero (Colombia)
Session Description
The WHO Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) was launched in 2008 in response to the gap between the burden of mental health and the resources for the treatment of mental, neurological and substance use disorders, especially in countries with low- and middle-income. This session will present the experiences, achievements and challenges in the implementation of the mhGAP intervention program in Latin American countries and outline some of the necessary steps to continue closing the gap in mental health. For this, a general panorama will be presented initially and later the experiences by countries will be addressed, including training modalities (mhGAP version 1, mhGAP 2.0, virtual, in person, blended, remote) and types of training (pre and postservice), as well as the challenges experienced in this process.
Spanish Language Sessions
Session Type
Spanish Language Sessions
Date
10/20/2021
Session Time
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Room
Hall G
Chair(s)
  • Mirna R. Santos (Guatemala)
Session Description
La región de América Central presenta dificultades asociadas a la oportunidad de tratamientos y acceso a los mismos en pacientes con múltiples padecimientos asociados a la salud mental. Agregar nuevas terapéuticas basadas en evidencia y con respuestas robustas puede brindar una gama de alternativas que no solamente mejoren el resultado del tratamiento, sino puedan generar mayor variabilidad en una perspectiva más en sintonía con otras regiones del mundo.

Spanish Language

Spanish Language Sessions
Session Type
Spanish Language Sessions
Date
10/16/2021
Session Time
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Room
Spanish Language
Chair(s)
  • Graciela B. Onofrio (Argentina)
Session Description
The objective of this Symposium is to establish a dialogue between Psychoanalysis and Neurosciences regarding dissociative disorders that are triggered by cumulative traumas. The traumatic situation is usually described as an objective disruptive event, but, in the usual mental health clinic, we find situations that are difficult to diagnose, due in part to the silence of the victims of these traumas and to their naturalization. Psychoanalytic theory and technique serve as the theoretical framework for many psychosocial interventions in mental health. It must be reviewed in light of changes in the patient's observing ego. That damaged ego has had to split up and sacrifice its unity of integration in the service of defensive mechanisms. Just as an example, we can mention eating disorders generated from sexual abuse, the consequences of medical malpractices in cosmetic surgeries chosen by patients, migrations in highly unstable conditions, unforeseen job changes, non-elaborate duel, bonding difficulties in joined families. Access to verbal therapy is hindered in front of the wall that is raised to protect the subject from the irruption of memories. The facts are presented to memory as unrealized and alien events. Most of the time the queries become circular and inoperative. Dr. Graciela Onofrio will refer to “The splitting of the ego in the process of defense”. Prof Eduardo Gastelumendi will refer to “Stealth dissociative disorders”, rarely investigated in the usual clinic and which are expressed as distancing from emotions. Dr Miguel Cuellar will refer to “What does Neurosciences teach us about dissociative disorders?”
Spanish Language Sessions
Session Type
Spanish Language Sessions
Date
10/16/2021
Session Time
08:00 AM - 09:00 AM
Room
Spanish Language
Chair(s)
  • Andrea Mendiola (United States of America)
Session Description
Allowing people with severe and persistent mental illness to enjoy a fulfilling life in the community implies a shift from the disease-centered approach to a person-centered approach. The recovery-based model's goal is to accompany people with severe and persistent mental illness in developing the emotional, social, and intellectual skills necessary to live, learn, and work, with the least amount of professional support. Two strategies promote a recovery-oriented model. The first strategy focuses on developing individual skills to interact in a stressful environment; the second aims to develop resources and protect a society that promotes social inclusion and reduces stigma. All persons suffering from a serious and persistent mental illness require a professional team trained in the model and willing to work from the individual and the community. This Symposium offers the attendee an update on psychiatry's recovery perspective focused on medical education.
Spanish Language Sessions
Session Type
Spanish Language Sessions
Date
10/16/2021
Session Time
06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Room
Spanish Language
Chair(s)
  • Juan Undurraga (Chile)
Session Description
Treatment resistant schizophrenia (TRS) can affect up to 1/3 of patients. It has a significant impact in quality of life and high societal economic costs. A large proportion of these patients are treatment resistant from an early stage of the illness. The most effective treatment for TRS is clozapine, and a delay in its use may result in poorer response. Delay in its indication may be motivated by clinicians’ resistance to prescribe, due to hematological complications and other side effects, but also, the need to make weekly and then monthly hematological testing. Clozapine has relatively low affinity and fast dissociation from D2/D3 receptor, and affects other neurotransmitter systems, such as the glutamatergic. In addition, drug occupancy at dopamine D2/3 receptors have similar levels of receptor occupancy in responders and TRS patients, and some of the latter do not show elevation in dopamine synthesis capacity. This has attracted interest in exploring other pathways to TRS and their potential as biomarkers and therapeutic targets. This session will review TRS from a clinical and socio-demographical perspective, as well as novel tools for diagnosis, and explore early dysregulation of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate in early stages of psychosis as a potential biomarker. Early identification of TRS has the potential to reduce time of untreated (or inadequately treated) psychosis in a critical period, improving long term clinical outcomes, as well as minimizing functional disability and social burden resulting from prolonged psychosis.
Spanish Language Sessions

SPANISH LANGUAGE SESSION: BRANCHES OF THE SAME TREE WITH ROOTS THAT EMBRACE: SYNDEMICS FRAMEWORK BASED MODELS TO FACE PANDEMICS, PAN-DISASTERS, AND PAN-VULNERABILITIES

Session Type
Spanish Language Sessions
Date
10/16/2021
Session Time
02:00 PM - 02:40 PM
Room
Spanish Language
Chair(s)
  • Leticia Ubinas (Puerto Rico)
Session Description
The first two decades of the 21st-century have brought about significant transformations in health care delivery, marked health disparities, civil unrest, unforeseen public health crises in the forms of natural disasters, the opioid epidemic, unprecedented rates of health care professionals burnout and suicide, the coronavirus pandemic and more upcoming challenges, such as the post-acute COVID19 syndrome. Individuals and communities are responding to these overwhelming circumstances in ways yet to be seen. Syndemics framework examines the health consequences of identifiable health problems interactions and the social, environmental, or economic factors that promote such interaction and worsen disease. Current and future health care providers need effective tools such as arts and humanities along with other evidence-based practices and experiences to address complex situations. We will review state of the art psychosocial interventions which incorporate a syndemics framework for the prevention of mental health problems and, discuss the “Tabonuco model”, a unique intervention implemented in Puerto Rico after two major hurricanes, earthquakes, political crisis, in the context of the COVID19 pandemics and, preparing for the long term neuropsychoimmunological effects of this human experience. Our innovative approach is an interprofessional, psychoeducational, culturally adapted fluid intervention for healthcare providers and other survivors of these catastrophic events. The “Tabonuco”, a native tree of Puerto Rico is our symbol. It connects with other members of its community through its roots. The model is an adaptation of the SEDE method (Navarro, 1998) that integrates arts and humanities and has demonstrated to be reliable and applicable to different scenarios.
Spanish Language Sessions
Session Type
Spanish Language Sessions
Date
10/16/2021
Session Time
01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Room
Spanish Language
Chair(s)
  • Marie Theodore (United States of America)
Session Description
The behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is the most common of the diseases of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). Psychiatric manifestations are common, often precede cognitive manifestations, and can result in misdiagnosis. Timely and accurate diagnosis of neurocognitive disorders benefits individuals with the disorders and their families and is recommended as part of high‐quality health care. A diagnosis leads to evaluation for reversible causes, guides the selection of appropriate treatments, allows individuals and families to access supportive interventions, and focuses on plans for future care needs. Prevalence data are limited by misdiagnosis, with many patients misclassified with other psychiatric diagnoses. We will describe characteristics of the clinical presentation for a diverse and under-represented Latin American population, all who eventually were diagnosed with probable bvFTD, and finally we will provide recommendations to distinguish behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia from psychiatric disorders.