Theses - Psychiatry
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Neurobiological and metabolic mechanisms of binge-eating in anorexia and bulimia nervosa
Binge-eating is characterised by the recurrent consumption of large amounts of food, which co-occurs with a subjective loss of control over intake. This transdiagnostic syndrome results in significant distress, functional ... -
Shedding Light on the Complex Picture of Psychosocial Factors that Promote Mental Health in Young People
Across the world about half a billion people suffer from mental health problems each year. Most of such mental distress starts to manifest before or during adolescence. Childhood adversity (CA) is strongly associated with ... -
The Mental Health of Peruvian Immigrants in Santiago, Chile
(Department of Psychiatry, 2014-10)This dissertation presents results from the first quantitative population based study exploring prevalence of Common Mental Disorders (CMDs), psychotic symptoms and Hazardous Drinking (HD) and factors associated with ... -
Application of Deep Learning to Brain Connectivity Classification in Large MRI Datasets
The use of machine learning for whole-brain classification of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data is of clear interest, both for understanding phenotypic differences in brain structure and function and for diagnostic ...
