Sadness, confusion, headaches, or difficulty sleeping. These are the main symptoms of the Ulysses syndrome, a stress pattern common among immigrant populations. Seventeen percent of Spain’s immigrant patients suffers from this syndrome, according to a study on health centers in the province in Valencia.

ÀNNIA MONREAL | DECEMBER 9TH, 2010

Film and psychoanalysis were almost born in agreement with one another. The nineteenth century was drawing to a close. Whilst in Vienna Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuers were engaged in publishing a study on hysteria, inventors Louis and Auguste Lumière were making history in the darkness of the Salon Indien of the Grand Café in Paris projecting the first scene ever filmed in cinema: workers leaving the Lumière factory in Lyon Monplaisir.

Jordi Montaner | 28 june 2010

Psychology is no stranger to the wave of new technologies that have revolutionized the way we interact and communicate. Therapists are well aware of this revolution, and this has led experts to analyze the pros and cons of these “next-generation treatments” offered on the Internet. The College of Psychologists of Catalonia has included these on-line techniques in its code of ethics, and a variety of websites now offer such services. Phobias, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, insomnia, eating disorders and certain addictions are some of the diseases people are increasingly willing to seek treatment for via the anonymity of the web.

Núria Llavina Rubio | 30 abril 2010

Fuster and Navarro-Valls received their Honorary Degrees, ceremonial caps, books of science, rings and white gloves from the Rector as part of a moving investiture ceremony in which Dr Albert Balaguer, the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, and Dr Salvador Aragonés, the first Dean of the Faculty of Communication Sciences, gave their respective laudatory speeches.

10 may 2010

A roundtable on “Dance, Creativity and Health,” the Fair Trade Festival and the Ethical Bank along with the activity for kids “From the Garden to the Mouth” are some of the activities offered by Casa Orlandai this Friday and Saturday, May 7 and 8.

7 may 2010

The i2CAT Foundation has presented at the eHealth Week 2010, which took place from 15 to 18 March 2010 in Barcelona, the project results Carers Network, a pilot scheme aimed at preventing progressive social exclusion faced by caregivers of dependents with the creation of a social network between psychologists and caregivers.

18 March 2010

It's the thing about prime numbers: they're lonely. They are only divisible by unity and themselves. Tacitly they take their place in the infinite series of natural numbers, but are essentially different, perhaps unique...

16 November 2009

Guess ten numbers as well as the ‘big one’. And you win for life.

4 November 2009

Luca Tancredi Barone, Roma

In these past months, not a day passes without the Italian newspapers talking about an aggression on homosexuals or transsexuals in some part of the country

21 October 2009

Luca Tancredi Barone, Roma

New research from the University College London has shown that subliminal messaging is at its most powerful when it arouses a negative reaction. The findings, recently published in the journal ‘Emotion’, may have implications for how subliminal messages are used in areas such as advertising, public service announcements and safety campaigns.

A.R. | 1 october 2009