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The director of the Dementia Unit of the Virgen de la Arrixaca University Hospital, Carmen Antunez, gave the closing conference

The Temple of The Jeronimos Monastery hosted the closing afternoon of the Fourth National Congress of Psychology, which began Wednesday with the participation of Professor in Psychiatry, Julio Vallejo-Ruiloba, who outlined the current problems of psychiatry.

Specialist in Neurology and director of the Dementia Unit of the Hospital Virgen de Murcia Arrixaca doctor Carmen Antunez, gave the closing lecture in which he referred to, among other things, how stress affects the brain.

The Antunez doctor has lectured on their field, dementias, "a disease that touches the core of who the person is, the brain that plays not only cognitive aspects but also affects decision making, ie , that which makes us free people and have an entity, "he qualified.

On increasing the life expectancy of today's society, which has been defined as the most important achievement, said that "the increase in dementia is what you pay for living longer."

Similarly, stressed that progress has been made in this field, "now we know almost everything that happens, why it occurs, what happens is that we have a solution but the first step is to know what is happening. to find a solution. "

Stress

Increasingly companies are more aware of the negative impact that stress can have not only in day to day, but also in health.

As indicated by the director of the Dementia Unit of the Hospital Virgen de Murcia Arrixaca stress is a potent immunosuppressant, further, at the biochemical level, generates many changes and also produces inflammatory lesions in certain areas of the brain, for example, at cerebral cortex, the hippocampus, where the memory is.

"We know that many diseases are secondary to stress, such as hyperthyroidism is one of them," he said.

The emotions, the forgotten

Moreover, Carmen Antunez has emphasized the importance of emotional area in our lives, in our bodies, and has highlighted this area as one of the brain areas where advances are being developed.

"Emotions are a very important part of our brain, and our culture is a little forgotten the importance. Emotional area of ​​individuals is the most important, and when balanced, the brain is much more harmonious," he I asserted.

Psychiatry & Psychology

Vallejo-Ruiloba, who gave the inaugural lecture, he listed his address during the current problems of psychiatry, including cited the confrontation between clinicians and researchers or the problem of demarcation between mental disorder and mental illness.

On the relationship of the company with the psychologist and psychiatrist, Professor said that in the last decade may be that this has lost some fear the psychiatrist, and seek more.

"Even so, most people prefer to go to the psychiatrist psychologist because it gives the impression that is less severe, that the psychologist is a more benign way of dealing with problems," he added.

Source: UCAM