diagnosis

Chicken or egg: A dual diagnosis narrative

Scientific article

Summary What is known on the subject? Dual diagnosis is a term used to describe persons who have a co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. It is the cause of significant economic burden to health care, justice and...

INTEREST Workshop

14 May 2019

Accra

Ghana

Known as the “African CROI” the INTEREST Conference brings together scientists involved in HIV treatment, pathogenesis, and prevention research in Africa to share pivotal findings, promote collaboration, and transfer experiences across several fields and many continents.

Opportunistic Screening for Alcohol Use Problems in Adolescents Attending Emergency Departments: An Evaluation of Screening Tools

Scientific article

26 March 2018

Abstract Objective To estimate and compare the optimal cut-off score of Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) and AUDIT-C in identifying at-risk alcohol consumption, heavy episodic alcohol use, ICD-10 alcohol abuse and alcohol...

“Gestaltomics”: Systems Biology Schemes for the Study of Neuropsychiatric Diseases

Scientific article

9 May 2017

The integration of different sources of biological information about what defines a behavioral phenotype is difficult to unify in an entity that reflects the arithmetic sum of its individual parts. In this sense, the challenge of Systems...