Dante Durand

• MD
• Professor (Associate) at University of Miami

Resumen Antecedentes: La mortalidad materna por suicidio es poco estudiada por lo que nuestro objetivo fue determinar las características de las gestantes o puérperas que mueren por suicidio. Material y Métodos: Estudio transversal de reporte de casos realizado en Cajamarca-Perú durante los años 2012-2018. Se incluyen muertes maternas por suicidio...

Objectives: People with schizophrenia (SCZ) and bipolar illness (BPI) generate self-reports of their functioning that diverge from objective information. It has been suggested that these participants do not base such reports on daily experiences, relying on other information. We used ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to sample socially relevan...

Suicide risk assessment is a subjective process and remains a clinical challenge in psychiatry. We aimed to examine physicians’ characteristics that influence management of acutely suicidal patients. In a cross-sectional design, we performed an anonymous internet survey of psychiatry residents and attendings from four academic centers. Gender, year...

The purpose of this study is to determine if psychiatrists’ level of Spanish proficiency impacts patient adherence with follow-up mental health care. We hypothesize that increased Spanish proficiency will increase the likelihood of follow up mental health care. Data were collected via retrospective chart review of Spanish-speaking patients at an ad...

Although the theoretical risk of sialorrhea exists for all antipsychotics, few cases have been reported with antipsychotics other than clozapine. In this case report, we describe a patient who developed sialorrhea with the use of perphenazine. The patient is a 75-year-old female with a long history of schizophrenia, and had been on perphenazine for...

Delusional infestation, a condition wherein a person believes his or her body to be infested with living organisms, has been observed in patients with primary psychotic disorders, as well as those with psychotic episodes secondary to mood disorders. Here we describe two similar cases of delusional snake infestation following sexual intercourse in f...

Several lines of evidence indicate that schizophrenia has a strong genetic component. But the exact nature and functional role of this genetic component in the pathophysiology of this mental illness remains a mystery. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a recently discovered family of molecules that regulate gene transcription through a variety of m...

Several lines of evidence indicate that schizophrenia has a strong genetic component. But the exact nature and functional role of this genetic component in the pathophysiology of this mental illness remains a mystery. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a recently discovered family of molecules that regulate gene transcription through a variety of m...

If treatments for cognitive impairment are to be utilized successfully, clinicians must be able to determine whether they are effective and which patients should receive them. In order to develop consensus on these issues, the International Society for CNS Clinical Trials and Methodology (ISCTM) held a meeting of experts on March 20, 2014, in Washi...

Cognition, negative symptoms, and depression are potential predictors of disability in schizophrenia. We present analyses of pooled data from four separate studies (all n>169; total n=821) that assessed differential aspects of disability and their potential determinants. We hypothesized that negative symptoms would predict social outcomes, but not...

Objective: Self-assessment deficits, often referred to as impaired insight or unawareness of illness, are well established in people with schizophrenia. There are multiple levels of awareness, including awareness of symptoms, functional deficits, cognitive impairments, and the ability to monitor cognitive and functional performance in an ongoing m...

Objective: Despite identification of several risk factors, suicide prediction and prevention is still a clinical challenge. Suicide can be seen as a consequence of poor decision making triggered by overwhelming psychological pain. We examined the relationship of choice impulsivity and psychological pain in depressed patients with acute suicidality...

Awareness of illness is a major factor in schizophrenia and extends into unawareness of cognitive and functional deficits. This unawareness of functional limitations has been shown to be influenced by several different predictive factors, including greater impairment and less severe depression. As treatment efforts are aimed at reducing cognitive d...

Vocational functioning is markedly impaired in people with schizophrenia. In addition to low rates of employment, people with schizophrenia have been reported to be underachieved compared to other family members. Among the causes of this vocational impairment may be cognitive deficits and other skills deficits, as well as social factors impacting o...

We report on a 29 year-old male with a history of antisocial personality and polysusbtance use disorder, who sustained a traumatic brain injury five months before presenting to the psychiatric emergency room in an agitated state and with suicidal and homicidal ideations. We discussed medication management and psychotherapeutic interventions in this...

Between 50% and 80% of patients with schizophrenia do not believe they have any illness and self assessment of cognitive impairments and functional abilities is also impaired compared to other information, including informant reports and scores on performance-based ability measures. The present paper explores self-assessment accuracy in reference t...

Background: Synthetic cannabinoid (SC) or "spice" refers to a variety of herbal/chemical mixtures, which mimic the effects of marijuana. They are generally marked as "herbal incense" and best known by the brand names of "K2," "spice," "aroma," "Mr. Nice Guy" and "dream." Little data are available on the psychopathological and physical effects of S...

Everyday functioning is known to be impaired in people with schizophrenia, across multiple functional domains. It is not clear, however, how impairments across social, vocational, and residential domains overlap with each other, Further, although there are multiple ratings scales available to rate everyday functioning, it is also not clear how scor...

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The objective of this study was to investigate the role of menopause in the appearance of the physiopathological sequence that leads to chronic mountain sickness (CMS) in a high-altitude female population. The females studied are 30-54 yr old (n = 152) and have permanent residence in Cerro de Pasco (Pasco, Peru; 4,300 m). The sample was divided int...