Functional images of the brain and psychopharmacology Dr. Humberto Nicolini The various techniques of functional brain imaging have evolved surprisingly Ulti-mos in 15 years. Since the appearance of the skull radiography and electroencephalogram-techniques for over 100 years were the only tools for the brain, either in structure and function-until the [...]

Abstracts of the XII World Congress of Psychiatry of the World Association of Psychiatry in Yokohama, Japan Chosen by Drs. John E. Mezzich and Miguel R. Jorge   Profile of cytokines in MDD subtypes F. Lotufo-Neto, A. Marques, W. Domingues, E. Prado Institute and Department of Psychiatry, University of São [...]

Abstracts of XVII Peruvian Congress of Psychiatry "Federico Sal y Rosas" Bolivarian II Regional Meeting of the Latin American Psychiatric Association and I Regional Meeting of the World Psychiatric Association Chosen by Drs. Juan Mezzich, Gabriela and Maria Isabel Zapata Kuroiwa   Subjectivity in psychiatry and psychopathological phenomena Dr. Gastelumendi [...]

Summaries from the World Congress of Sexology held in Havana, Cuba, from 10 to 14 March Chosen by Dr. Carlos Berganza   The role of hotlines in clinical sexology: the Portuguese experience Dra. Patricia Pascoal, Portugal The hotlines exist in the United States since the early twentieth century. Initially, they [...]