Resilience in torture survivors: reflections, learnings and ways forward

The paper develops initial reflections on the possibility of resilience in torture survivors and how resilience would be defined in that case, who would be resilient and whether it is possible to learn to be resilient. The second part suggests a comprehensive list of individual and collective resilience mechanisms relevant during and after the experience of torture

La versión revisada de 2022 del Protocolo de Estambul: kit de orientación para personas con prisa

Editorial del Editor, Pau Pérez-Sales, introduce la nueva versión del Protocolo de Istanbul.El Director de la Revista introduce la nueva versión del Protocolo de Estambul

The future is here: Mind control and torture in the digital era

Torture, understood as a relationship of domination in which one person breaks the will and impedes the self-determination of another human being, taking control of all aspects of the victims’ life and trying to change the core elements of their identity to the perpetrator’s interests (Pérez-Sales, 2017), will increasingly come to be linked to new technologies, artificial intelligence, the use of media and internet, and to new forms of lethal and non-lethalweapons. The author reviews the implications of modern technology for the contemporary fight against torture and some of the emerging civil society initiatives that aim to face them

The 2022-Revised version of the Istanbul Protocol: orientation kit for people in rush

Editorial by the Editor in Chief introducing the revised versión of the Istanbul Protocol

La version 2022-révisée du Protocole d'Istanbul: kit d'orientation pour les personnes en situation d'urgence

Le Rédacteur en Chef présente la version révisée du Protocole d'Istanbu

Learning from the past to face the challenges ahead: Celebrating 30 years of Torture Journal

This Editorial walks us through the 30 years of the Torture Journal in commemoration of its anniversary. Moreover, it introduces the reader to this issue 2021(3)

Detection and assessment of victims of illtreatment and torture in Primary Health Care.: Quick guide including developments in the 2022 updated version of the Istanbul Protocol.

Editorial to the 2023(1) issue published in 17.03.202

VIVO Questionnaire: A Measure of Human Worldviews and Identity in Trauma, Crisis, and Loss. Validation and Preliminary Findings

Various proposals have been made in order to measure worldviews and identity in extreme trauma or loss experiences. The use of these scales has provided mixed results. The Vital Impact Assess- ment Scale (VIVO) was designed to fill some of the gaps of the exist- ing tools: (a) to be administered to the general population, as well as to survivors of extreme experiences; (b) to include an extensive range of human responses to extreme situations; (c) to be adminis- tered to large population samples from different cultural backgrounds; (d) to avoid anchoring to a specific personal experi- ence; and (e) to work with extensive and complex response profiles. Validation data and preliminary results are presented for the Spanish version, and an English formulation is proposed. The final version of the VIVO Questionnaire, composed of 116 items, offers an organized profile divided into 10 conceptual blocks (world- views, attitude towards the world, view of human beings, coping, impact of past situations, emotions, telling the experience, conse- quences, social support, and identity) and 35 subscales

If You Could Only Choose Five Psychotropic Medicines: Updating the Interagency Emergency Health Kit

Mark van Ommeren and colleagues describe how they chose five psychotropic medicines to add to the Interagency Emergency Health Kit, which is a box with medicines and medical supplies designed to help people in major humanitarian emergencies

Remission of obesity and insulin resistance is not sufficient to restore mitochondrial homeostasis in visceral adipose tissue

Metabolic plasticity is the ability of a biological system to adapt its metabolic phenotype to different environmental stressors. We used a whole-body and tissue-specific phenotypic, functional, proteomic, metabolomic and transcriptomic approach to systematically assess metabolic plasticity in diet-induced obese mice after a combined nutritional and exercise intervention. Although most obesity and overnutrition-related pathological features were successfully reverted, we observed a high degree of metabolic dysfunction in visceral white adipose tissue, characterized by abnormal mitochondrial morphology and functionality. Despite two sequential therapeutic interventions and an apparent global healthy phenotype, obesity triggered a cascade of events in visceral adipose tissue progressing from mitochondrial metabolic and proteostatic alterations to widespread cellular stress, which compromises its biosynthetic and recycling capacity. In humans, weight loss after bariatric surgery showed a transcriptional signature in visceral adipose tissue similar to our mouse model of obesity reversion. Overall, our data indicate that obesity prompts a lasting metabolic fingerprint that leads to a progressive breakdown of metabolic plasticity in visceral adipose tissue