José Antonio Rodríguez Piedrabuena -- Ideology or science in brain health?
Imbalances, mental health disorders, psychiatric, emotional and behavioural disturbances are due to specific changes in the functioning of neurons and their synapses. Such brain alterations arise when some part of the neuronal circuits is overactive, inactive or unable to communicate effectively with each other. The dysfunction may be due to [...]
José Antonio Rodríguez Piedrabuena -- Mental Health Act: one step closer to demolition
Mental health should be planned for and meet the World Health Organisation's (WHO) diagnostic criteria in the international classification of diseases; which defines having an anxiety disorder, depressive disorder, substance abuse disorder, sexual dysfunction, schizophrenia or autism, to name a few. Does socio-economic factors have anything to do with adolescents and young people - specifically [...]
José Antonio Rodríguez Piedrabuena -- How does our body defend itself against COVID-19?
When a pathogen enters the body, the liver joins the army to eliminate it. It speeds up its metabolism by increasing protein production, in this case...
Endothelium, exercise and COVID-19
After being discharged, a person who has had COVID-19 is readmitted a month later for multiple thromboses in the legs and lung. He suffers from a state of dysfunction of the endothelium, the cells that line the arteries. Another person confined by COVID-19 has just had a thrombosis in one eye. [...]
Dr. Rodríguez Piedrabuena analyses the effects of confinement on our bodies.
Cortisol has been used during COVID-19 pneumonia because it can slow down the immune system's efforts through a cascade of pro-inflammatory cytokines. Cortisol's main function is to block inflammation caused by any type of damage. Inflammation is inhibited by cortisol in the early stages, [...]
Home confinement
It is a large virus that when I talk or cough it drops to the ground at only one metre twenty. It's a single-stranded ribonucleic acid virus, and it has the spike-like glycoprotein that recognises the cells of the lung alveoli and uses them to replicate, stays on surfaces for a while, and then [...]