Pierre Cole

University-Hospital Brugmann UVC | BUVC · Service de psychiatrie et psychologie médicale

Le lien observé entre variabilité du rythme cardiaque et psychopathologie a suscité de nombreuses considérations théoriques. Le modèle explicatif le plus populaire est la théorie polyvagale de Porges, laquelle développe le lien entre le système nerveux autonome et les comportements humains dans une perspective évolutionniste. Nous détaillons les hy...

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) is a cheap, easy to use, and relatively safe noninvasive brain stimulation technique. It is increasingly used in several indications in psychiatry and neurology, mainly for depression, chronic pain and cognitive decline due to degenerative brain diseases. Its efficacy is probable in depression and must...

Background: A valid screening instrument is needed to detect attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in treatment-seeking borderline personality disorder (BPD) patients. We aimed to test the performance of the widely-used Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale v1.1 screener (ASRS-v1.1). Methods: 317 BPD subjects were systematically assessed for co...

In the past few years, there has been an increased and widespread interest for Mentalization-Based Therapies (MBTs). Although originally developed by Anthony Bateman and Peter Fonagy for the treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), the scope of MBTs has now been broadened and is relevant in liaison psychiatry, not only to cope with perso...

Les thérapies basées sur la mentalisation (TBM), développées pour le trouble borderline, ont connu ces dernières années un essor important. Les techniques des TBM pourraient être utiles en psychiatrie de liaison au-delà des troubles de la personnalité et de phénomènes comme la dérégulation émotionnelle ou les conduites suicidaires. En effet, le véc...

Background: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with marked impairments in familial, social, and professional functioning. Although stimulant treatments can be effective in adult ADHD, some patients will respond poorly or not at all to medication. Previous studies demonstrated that cognitive behavioural therapy- (CBT) and...

Deaf people with mental illness have to face to a double stigma: mental illness and deafness. Deaf and hard of hearing are a fragile population in term of accessibility to psychiatric care. The approach to the psychiatric clinic of deaf people must face the stigma that permeate the professionals in mental health about deafness. The possibilities to...

Les expériences hallucinatoires ne sont pas spécifiques des troubles psychotiques et on les observe dans d’autres situations, notamment dans le cadre des déprivations sensorielles auditives. La proportion des gens ayant des hallucinations auditives est sous-estimée en raison du stigmate associé, d’où la constatation clinique d’une réticence des gen...

This article aims to examine data on Psychiatric diagnoses among deaf people in comparison with hearing people in the psychiatric hospital in Beau-Vallon. This work proposes to study the diagnostic data from the Summary Psychiatric Minimum (Résumé psychiatrique minimum: RPM) from the years 2000 until 2009 from the psychiatric hospital Beau Vallon a...

This work aims to study the relationship between psychopathology and deafness. These results show that the most frequent diagnosis among the deaf are disorders of mood and post-traumatic syndrome. Psychotic disorders and mental retardation, once widely diagnosed among deaf populations, are less frequent. The accuracy of these findings results from...

La prise en charge d'une grossesse chez une patiente bipolaire représente un cas particulier de prise en charge médicale où une collaboration entre différents intervenants est nécessaire : médecins généralistes, obstétriciens et psychiatres. Au cours de la grossesse, les praticiens doivent mettre en balance, d'une part, les effets (à court et à lon...

The term neuroplasticity is used more and more in the medical language. It refers with the structural and/or functional modifications of the brain in answer to the environmental stimuli. It deals with strict rules as for neurogenesis and synaptogenesis. After having developed the conditions of possibilities of neuroplasticity and its components, we...