Diseño, desarrollo e implementación de un programa de educación afectiva y social en Educación Primaria

A través de este estudio se trató de conocer el nivel de competencia emocional de los alumnos de un centro de educación primaria, con la finalidad de diseñar un programa que respondiera a las necesidades detectadas en educación emocional del propio alumnado del centro La competencia emocional fue evaluada por el profesor, por el propio alumno y por un compañero de éste. A partir de los datos obtenidos en la evaluación inicial, se diseñó un programa basándonos en las carencias detectadas. Se seleccionaron dos grupos: a) experimental, b) control. A continuación se implementó el programa por parte del profesorado que constituía el grupo experimental. La muestra de alumnado participante fue un total de 135 alumnos pertenecientes a los tres ciclos de educación primaria.. Posteriormente se analizaron y evaluaron los efectos del programa en función del nivel inicial de competencia emocional del alumnado. Dicha evaluación fue realizada nuevamente por el profesor, el propio alumno y un compañero. La mayor parte de las diferencias estadísticamente significativas se encuentran en la evaluación que realiza el profesor, concretamente en cuatro de las seis variables analizadas encontramos diferencias estadísticamente significativas. Por otra parte, fue evaluado el grado de satisfacción de los participantes con el programa, tanto el de los profesores como el de los alumnos participantes.

¡…Prescindible Organizado!: Agenda Docente para una formulación afectiva y disidente del Proyecto Arquitectónico

El texto que a continuación se presenta se corresponde de manera bastante fidedigna con el texto que el autor leyó en el acto de defensa de su tesis doctoral, realizada en la Universidad de Alicante el 14 de junio de 2012. El tribunal estuvo compuesto por Remedios Zafra, Federico Soriano, Jessica Jaques, Miguel Angel Hernández y Juan Freire. Los directores del trabajo fueron José María Torres Nadal y Pedro Alberto Cruz. Después de lo vivido, lo pensado, y lo contado, descubro perplejo al final de esta investigación que la relevancia de lo que hemos realizado junto con otrxs muchxs en la Universidad de Alicante, radica precisamente en una obsesión infantil por organizar lo prescindible, todo aquello que no nos es requerido para el cumplimiento de nuestras estrictas funciones académicas. O por utilizar otros términos, descubro con un cierto horror que casi nada de lo que en algún momento nos ha llegado a excitar parece atravesado por los dispositivos maquínicos institucionales.

Dos biomarcadores ao estadiamento da perturbação bipolar : uma revisão bibliográfica

Trabalho Final do Curso de Mestrado Integrado em Medicina, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, 2014

Biomarcadores na doença bipolar : um foco em peroxidação lipídica

Trabalho Final do Curso de Mestrado Integrado em Medicina, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, 2014

Decade of the brain : bipolar disorder.

Mode of access: Internet.

Genome scan meta-analysis of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, part II: Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a common disorder with high heritability and a 10-fold increase in risk to siblings of probands. Replication has been inconsistent for reports of significant genetic linkage. To assess evidence for linkage across studies, rank-based genome scan meta-analysis (GSMA) was applied to data from 20 schizophrenia genome scans. Each marker for each scan was assigned to 1 of 120 30-cM bins, with the bins ranked by linkage scores (1 = most significant) and the ranks averaged across studies (R-avg) and then weighted for sample size (rootN[affected cases]). A permutation test was used to compute the probability of observing, by chance, each bin's average rank (P-AvgRnk) or of observing it for a bin with the same place (first, second, etc.) in the order of average ranks in each permutation (P-ord). The GSMA produced significant genomewide evidence for linkage on chromosome 2q (P-AvgRnk

Slow binocular rivalry in bipolar disorder

Background. The rate of binocular rivalry has been reported to be slower in subjects with bipolar disorder than in controls when tested with drifting, vertical and horizontal gratings of high spatial frequency. Method. Here we assess the rate of binocular rivalry with stationary, vertical and horizontal gratings of low spatial frequency in 30 subjects with bipolar disorder, 30 age- and sex-matched controls, 18 subjects with schizophrenia and 18 subjects with major depression. Along with rivalry rate, the predominance of each of the rivaling images was assessed, as was the distribution of normalized rivalry intervals. Results. The bipolar group demonstrated significantly slower rivalry than the control, schizophrenia and major depression groups. The schizophrenia and major depression groups did not differ significantly from the control group. Predominance values did not differ according to diagnosis and the distribution of normalized rivalry intervals was well described by a gamma function in all groups. Conclusions. The results provide further evidence that binocular rivalry is slow in bipolar disorder and demonstrate that rivalry predominance and the distribution of normalized rivalry intervals are not abnormal in bipolar disorder. It is also shown by comparison with previous work, that high strength stimuli more effectively distinguish bipolar from control subjects than low strength stimuli. The data on schizophrenia and major depression suggest the need for large-scale specificity trials. Further study is also required to assess genetic and pathophysiological factors as well as the potential effects of state, medication, and clinical and biological subtypes.

Cell cycle alterations in biopsied olfactory neuroepithelium in schizophrenia and bipolar I disorder using cell culture and gene expression analyses

We previously demonstrated that olfactory cultures front individuals with schizophrenia had increased cell proliferation compared to Cultures from healthy controls. The aims of this study were to (a) replicate this observation in a new group Of individuals with schizophrenia, (b) examine the specificity of these findings by including individuals with bipolar I disorder and (c) explore gene expression differences that may underlie cell cycle differences in these diseases. Compared to controls (n = 10), there was significantly more mitosis in schizophrenia patient cultures (it = 8) and significantly more cell death in the bipolar I disorder patient cultures (n=8). Microarray data showed alterations to the cell cycle and phosphatidylinositol signalling pathways in schizophrenia and bipolar I disorder, respectively. Whilst caution is required in the interpretation of the array results, the study provides evidence indicating that cell proliferation and cell death in olfactory neuroepithelial cultures is differentially altered in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.