Agenesia e lipoma de corpo caloso: relato de caso

The agenesis and lipoma of the corpus callosum is a very rare association. We report the case of a 18-years old woman with rare epileptic seizures since the age of 6 years, normal neurological examination, as well as normal electroencephalogram. The brain computed tomography scanning and the magnetic resonance showed the lipoma and the agenesis of the corpus callosum.A agenesia e lipoma do corpo caloso é uma associação muito rara. Relatamos o caso de uma paciente de 18 anos com raras crises epilépticas desde os 6 anos de idade, exame neurológico normal, assim como eletrencefalograma normal. A tomografia computadorizada de crânio e a ressonância magnética mostraram o lipoma e a agenesia de corpo caloso.Escola Paulista de MedicinaUNIFESP, EPMSciEL

Anxiety, Depression and Emotional Profile in Renal Transplant Recipients and Healthy Subjects: A Comparative Study

Renal transplantation is a well-established treatment for end-stage renal disease. However, transplant recipients have been shown to develop emotional distress and affective disorders, such as anxiety and depression, associated with compromised quality of life. Some accounts report an improvement of affective disorder after transplantation, others draw opposite conclusions. A cross-sectional study selected 42 transplant recipients and 42 control subjects. The two groups were matched for gender, age, educational background and marital status. Symptoms of anxiety and depression and general emotional profiles were compared employing the Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale, the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the Affective Neuroscience Personality Scale (ANPS), a self-report inventory that evaluates six neurally-based affective tendencies: seeking, caring, playfulness (Positive Affects), fear, anger and sadness (Negative Affects).No significant difference was found between transplanted patients and the control group in the scores for anxiety and depression, evaluated with the Zung and BDI scales. However, transplanted patients scored significantly lower than controls in the fear and anger scales, and in general negative emotions. Transplant recipients did not display symptoms of anxiety and depression. However, a significant reduction in negative affect, evaluated through ANPS scales, did reveal psychological distress. Present findings suggest the affective profile in transplanted patients should be more extensively examined and review all the facets covered in their mental and emotional assessment, especially in regard to the role played by this emotional pattern in complying with the medical treatment, which is well known to be a clinically critical feature of these patients

Reflections on 20 years of Neuropsychoanalysis

As this journal was founded in 1999, and the 20th Congress of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society took place in 2019, this year seems a fitting time to celebrate the 20th anniversary of neuropsychoanalysis. The celebration was kicked off by an in-depth interview of Oliver Turnbull by Christian Salas in our previous issue. In what follows, other members of the neuropsychoanalysis community share some personal, social, and theoretical reflections on the importance of neuropsychoanalysis since the founding of the journal and the Society. Through personal histories, remembrances of the \u201cpre-history\u201d and development of the neuropsychoanalysis community, and discussions of concepts and findings that have emerged at our congresses and in these pages, a nuanced landscape of our vital, interdisciplinary project emerges