PERSPECTIVES IN PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH -- PERSPECTIVES IN PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH -- Contents -- Preface -- Lessons Learned After Ten Years of Telepsychiatry Practice -- The Experience of "El Hierro" Island -- The Experience of "La Gomera" Island -- Lessons Learned -- Telepsychiatry Room -- Videoconference System -- Working with the Equipment -- Legal and Ethical Issues -- Lessons Learned Specific to the Psychiatrist's Role -- Conclusion -- References -- Fear Emotional Expression in Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder -- Introduction: Psychopathy and The Emotions -- Part I: Nosology and Psychopathic Disorders -- N.B. -- 1. History and Definition of the Concept of Psychopathy -- 2. Categorical Nosographical Approaches -- a) The Antisocial Personality Disorder -- b) Hare Psychopathy Checklist Revised -- c) Commentary -- 3. Dimensional Nosographical Approaches -- 4. Psychopathy as a Developmental Disorder -- A. CD -- A.1. Clinical Features -- A.2. Etiological Factors -- A.3. Psychopathy Construct in Youth: Callous-Unemotional Traits -- B. ODD -- B.1. Clinical Features -- B.2. Etiological Factors -- B.3. Psychopathy Construct in Youth -- C. ADHD -- C.1. Clinical Features -- C.2. Etiological Factors -- C.3. Psychopathy Construct in Youth -- Part II: Neuropsychological, Neurophysiological, Neurocognitive And Neuroanatomical Bases -- 1. Neuropsychological Measures and Antisocial Behaviour -- A. Executive Functions -- B. Emotional Processing -- 2. Psychophysiological Measures and Antisocial Behaviour -- Introduction -- Adult Studies -- Youth Studies -- Psychophysiological Abnormalities as a Sign of Structural Dysfunctions -- 3. Neuroimaging and Antisocial Behaviour -- A. The Cerebral Structures Involved in Emotional Responses: The Supremacy of the Amygdala -- B. Psychopathy and Structural Imagery -- C. Psychopathy and Functional Anatomy.

Conclusion -- References -- Fear and Anxiety in Psychiatric Disorders, Cognitive-Behavioral Concepts and Treatments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Fear and Anxiety -- 2.1. The Distinction Between Fear and Anxiety -- 2.2. Anxiety Disorders in Psychiatry -- 3. The Cognitive-Behavioral Model of Fear -- 3.1. Cognitive Behavioral Analysis -- 3.2. The Cognitive-Behavioral Model of Anxiety -- 4. Methods of Intervention in Cognitive-Behavior Therapies for Anxiety -- 4.1. Behavioral Interventions -- 4.2. Cognitive Interventions -- 4.3. Interventions at Physical Level -- 5. Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Treatements: A Brief Overview -- Conclusion -- References -- On the Possibility of Direct Memory -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Experience, Perception and the Coding Problem -- The Coding Problem -- Holography - Unfolding a Code -- Gibson and the Invariance Structure of Events -- Invariance and Action -- Form, Velocity Flows and the Time-Extent of Events -- Qualia, Flows and the Scale of Time -- Invariance Laws and Space-Time Partitions -- Primary Memory -- Memory as Non-Differentiable Motion -- Physics and the Abstraction -- The Origin of the External Image -- The Brain as Wave -- Direct Memory -- The Redintegrative Model -- Verbal Tasks and Redintegration -- Parametric Variation of Cues in Concrete Events -- Imagery and Concreteness -- Subject-Performed Tasks -- 1) The Transitve-Intransitve Pattern -- 2) The Role of Objects -- 3) Verb to Verb Failure -- 4) EPT vs. SPT Performance -- 5) EPT vs. SPT and Reenactment -- Priming -- Priming - An Hypothesis -- General Discussion -- Encoding Specificity - Not -- Distinctiveness - Not -- Storage - Not -- Cognition and Compositionality -- Abstraction and Redintegration -- The Piagetian Base of Systematicity -- Imagery and Thought -- Thought, Consciousness and the Non-Computational -- Free Recall and the Explicit.

Is Everything Stored? -- Interference Theory and Eye-Witness Phenomena -- Brain Storage: No Contrary Proof -- Problems/Difficulties -- Conclusion -- References -- The Montreal Adolescent Depression Development Project (MADDP): School Life and Depression Following High School Transition -- Abstract -- Introduction -- School Life and Depression Development -- Psychological Characteristics -- Socialization Experiences -- School Environment -- Remaining Questions -- The Present Study -- Methodology of the MADDP -- Sample and Procedure -- Instruments -- Dependent Variable: Depressive Symptoms -- Controlled Variables -- Predictors -- Analytical Strategy -- Missing Data Replacement -- Choosing The Control Variables -- Answering The Research Question -- Answering Sub-Questions -- The Final Model -- Results -- Normality and Multivariate Outliers -- Choosing the Control Variables -- Correlations among Predictors and Controls -- Relationships between School Life and Depression -- School-Related Psychological Characteristics -- School-Related Socialization Experiences -- Perceived School Environment -- Contribution of School Life to Depression Development -- Discussion of the Results -- Relationships between School Life and Depression -- Moderating Role of Gender: Differentiated Impact of School Life on Boys and Girls -- Moderating Role of Previous Depressive Symptoms: Prevention or Intervention Targets? -- Total Contribution of School Life to Depression Development -- A Note on Controlled Variables -- Limitations and Directions for Future Research -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- The Relationship Between Societal Crime and Socio-Economic Status, Income Inequality and Education: A Cross-National Study -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Methods -- 1. Data Collection -- 2. Data Analysis -- Results -- Discussion -- Conflict of Interest -- References.

Development of an Epidemiological Transition Model to Explain Cross-National Variations in Elderly Suicide Rates, Time Trends in Elderly Suicide Rates and Age-Associated Trends in Suicide Rates -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Cross-National Variations in Elderly Suicide Rates -- Cross-National Variations in Trends Over Time in Elderly Suicide Rates -- Age-Associated Trends in Suicide Rates -- Methodological Considerations -- Development of an Epidemiological Transition Model for Elderly Suicide Rates -- 1. Low Elderly Suicide Rate-Low Socio-Economic Society Stage -- 2. High Elderly Suicide Rate-Low Socio-Economic Society Stage -- 3. High Elderly Suicide Rate-High Socio-Economic Society Stage -- 4. Low Elderly Suicide Rate-High Socio-Economic Society Stage -- Conclusion -- Conflict of Interest -- References -- Psychotropic Analgesic Nitrous Oxide [PAN] for Substance Abuse Withdrawal: Current Status -- Abstract -- Introduction - Distinguishing between Psychotropic Analgesic Nitrous Oxide and Anaesthetic Nitrous Oxide -- How PAN Ameliorates Substance Abuse Withdrawal States -- PAN for Treating Alcohol Withdrawal States -- Alcohol Withdrawal States -- Double-blind, Randomised Trials with PAN versus a Benzodiazepine -- PAN for Treating Other Substances of Abuse Apart from Alcohol -- Opioids -- Cocaine -- Nicotine -- Cannabis -- Polydrug Abuse -- Anti-Craving Properties of PAN -- Alcohol -- Cannabis -- Nicotine -- Current Status of PAN for Substance Abuse Withdrawal -- Credibility Gap -- Lack of Commercial Interest in PAN -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Index.