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Introducción: la actitud hacia la muerte y la empatía corresponden a aptitudes personales y sociales, de dichas aptitudes se desprende la creación de buenas relaciones humanas, por lo tanto deberían ser consideradas como un aspecto esencial de profesionalismo en la medicina y, por ende, debería ser incorporado al proceso de enseñanza­aprendizaje. Objetivo: asociar las actitudes hacia la muerte y empatía en estudiantes de Medicina. Métodos: se realizó un estudio no experimental, correlacional de corte longitudinal. La muestra fue no probabilística a conveniencia y se conformó con 307 voluntarios de primer año de la Facultad de Medicina UAEMéx; se aplicó la escala de Empatía Médica de Jefferson y Perfil Revisado de actitud hacia la muerte. Se realizó la comparación de medias mediante ANOVA y Prueba T de Student, la relación de variables se hizo por el coefiente de correlación de Pearson. Resultados: en la Empatía Médica de Jefferson el promedio obtenido por los hombres fue mayor con respecto a las mujeres en el pre y pos test; solo se encontró una diferencia estadísticamente significativa en el pretest. El 54,59 por ciento de estudiantes obtuvieron un puntaje superior al promedio en ambas mediciones. Conclusiones: las actitudes hacia la muerte y la Escala de Empatía Médica de Jefferson se relacionan positiva y negativamente, los valores de las correlaciones son débiles, pero significativos(CU)

Introduction: The attitude toward death and empathy correspond to personal and social skills, such skills creating good human relations is clear, therefore they should be regard as an essential aspect of professionalism in medicine and, therefore, It should be incorporated into the teaching-learning process. Objective: The objective of this research was to associate the attitudes toward death and empathy in medical students. Methods: Anon-experimental study, correlational slitting was performed. The sample was non-probabilistic convenience and settled for 307 volunteers first year of the Faculty of Medicine at the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico; Scale of Physician Empathy Jefferson and revised profile attitude toward death was given. Comparison of means was performed using ANOVA and Student t test, the ratio of variables was made by the Pearson correlation coefiente. Results: Jefferson Medical Empathy average earned by men was higher compared to women in the pre and post test; only statistically significant difference was found in the pre test. 54.59 percent of the students scored above average on both measures score. Conclusions: Attitudes toward death and the Scale of Physician Empathy Jefferson relate positively and negatively, the values ​​of the correlations are weak, but significant(AU)

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INTRODUCTION: Being diagnosed with breast cancer is devastating for women because they face a "sense of loss". Since this loss is observed by the women themselves as well as by those around them, this can often lead to depression. OBJECTIVES: (1) To verify a possible association between body image and depression; (2) To establish a relation between depression and time since breast cancer diagnosis. METHOD: The data came from the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) and the Body Image Scale (BIS), which were used to evaluate the subjects. A random sample of n=120 women was divided into two groups. The women in Group 1 had been recently diagnosed with breast cancer, but had not at that time had any type of surgical treatment. The women in Group 2 had undergone a mastectomy over a year ago. RESULTS: The women in Group 1 were found to be more severely depressed, and a statistically significant association was detected between depression and body image (p0.05). CONCLUSIONS: The women in Group 1, the majority of whom were suffering from severe depression, had a disturbed body image even though they had not had a mastectomy. The women in Group 2, who had been operated, also suffered from similar body image problems, but their depression was not as intense.

Introducción: El cáncer de mama constituye una patología de extremada prevalencia en la actualidad y con un alto impacto en la sociedad, tanto en los países desarrollados como en México, ésta patología ha aumentado en los últimos años. El diagnóstico es impactante para las mujeres porque se enfrentan al problema de "sentido de pérdida" y este hecho puede ser observado tanto por ellas como por otras personas, provocando con frecuencia alteraciones depresivas. Objetivos: Relacionar la imagen corporal y la depresión. En segundo lugar, determinar la posible implicación entre la depresión y el diagnóstico reciente y tardío. Material y métodos: Se recolectó información de datos a partir de la historia clínica, entrevista y aplicación del BDI-II (Escala de depresión de Beck) y el BIS (Body Image Scale) de 120 mujeres diagnosticadas y tratadas de cáncer de mama durante el periodo de Enero-Diciembre 2012. Se seleccionó la muestra aleatoria n=120 mujeres divididas en dos grupos. El grupo 1 con diagnóstico reciente sin intervención quirúrgica de la mama. El grupo 2 de mujeres mastectomizadas de más de 1 año. Resultados: El grupo 1 presentó mayor severidad de la depresión y se encontró una asociación estadísticamente significativa entre la depresión y la imagen corporal (p0.05). Conclusiones: El grupo 1 presenta una percepción de la imagen corporal incompleta aunque no estén mastectomizadas y un mayor grado de depresión. Las mujeres del grupo 2 también se percibían su imagen corporal incompleta aunque presentaban menor grado de depresión.

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The present study deals with the effect of chronic toluene inhalation (30,000 - 40,000 ppm in air, 15 min/day for 30 days) that induced abnormal behavior states resembling the serotonin syndrome in rats: resting tremor, hindlimb abduction, Straub tail, head weaving and rigidity. The head weaving latencies were significantly decreased when assessed at 15 and 30 days of exposure totoluene vapors. The sequence pattern sign of serotonin syndrome were changed after 15 and 30 days of exposure, indicating possible comulative effects and/or tolerance development. There were no changes in concentrations of indolamine and catecholamine compounds in different parts of the rat brain (cerebral cortex, modbrain, brainstem and cerebellum) as influence of chronic toluene exposure. Examination of specific serotonin ((3H)-5HT) to crude synaptic membranes prepared from rat brains and subjected to chronic toluene inhalation revealed a very high increased value in apparent Kd (30.7 ñ 15) with respect to its air control (9.7 ñ 2.3) and baseline control (5.8 ñ 3.2). This difference was highly significant (p <0.02). There were no changes in apparent Bmax of specific (3H).5HT binding sites. On the other hand (3H)-NE binding of rat brain studies did not show any difference either in apparent Kd or apparent Bmasx. These results indicate that serotonin syndrome may be a consequence of changes of serotonergic mechanism, specifically a reduced affinity in specific (3H)-5HT binding sites

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