, located south of Loire-Atlantique, around 10 kilometres from Bourgneuf-en-Retz Bay, the remains of the Machecoul Castle are installed on a slight calcareous depression. In the Middle Ages, the fortress was placed on the southern confins of Brittany, close to the coastline and Falleron, a river tha...

The relative success of the fight against inflation and excessive attention over the short period tend to mask trend developments in developed economies. The political consensus on the idea of restoring the “big balances” means that the reasons for the continuing rise in unemployment in Europe — a f...

Schwankungen in der Ausdehnung geschlossener Seen liefern einen detaillierten Nachweis ùber régionale und kontinentale Variationen im durchschnittlichen jàhrlichen Wasser-Budget. Man hat die zeitliche Abfolge von Wasserschwankungen wàhrend des Holozàn in Nordamerika rekonstruiert, gestùtzt auf Infor...

During the 1930s, Great Depression, repeated droughts, dust storms and erosion weakened farmers in the Great Plaines. More than two million will leave their farms for California. It was this social, economic and climate phenomenon that the American painter Alexandre Hogue chose to paint in a series...

peer reviewed Depression is a syndrome from which 12% of men and 20% women suffer. Behavioral activation (AC) is a structured and brief psychotherapeutic procedure which has shown its efficacy in the treatment of depression. It follows two objectives: 1. increase engagement in activities associated...

this article aims to inform public health planners, clinical staff and suicide prevention actors in Quebec as well as families and the French-speaking public about recent studies on the treatment of depression as a suicide prevention strategy. The authors summarise the findings, review methods and e...

Depressive disorders are definded by heterogeneous symptoms that include sleep disorders such as comorbid condition. Comorbidity of sleep disorders in depression is usually marked by a decrease in NREM sleep, increased REM sleep and sleep fragmentation, both in humans and within animal models of the...

Any scientific approach must formulate, and provide answers to, a few scoping questions. First, the exact scope of the results of the Anadep survey arises and, secondly, the question of the limits and interpretations of those results arises.

Depression is often presented as the ‘disease of the century’. The study of opinions on depression makes it possible to approach the representations of this disorder among the population. The aim of the work presented here is to characterise representation profiles relating to depression, based on t...

Experimental evidence suggests that estrogen can have psycho- and neuro-protective effects; however this has not been consistently supported by certain clinical trials and epidemiological studies. This thesis aimed to provide a detailed investigation of the role of estrogen in later-life depression...

PhD thesis in management sciences, led by Philippe ROBERT-DEMONTROND, Professor, University of Rennes 1, jury members: Luc BOYER, Professor, University of Paris IX; Dominique MARTIN, Professor, University of Rennes 1; Didier CAZAL, Professor, University of Lille I; Zahir YANAT, Professor HDR, Bordea...

‘titrebSummary’/titrebIf early mother-infant interactions in the event of maternal depression have been widely studied, we are much less familiar with those of psychotic mothers. Studies, comparing early interactions in different maternal mental conditions, are also rare. This study aims to assess w...

Unipolar depression is among the leading cause of invalidity and disability-adjusted life-years. Many depressed patients do not respond to several antidepressant treatments. Several treatments have been investigated in resistant depression using electrical or magnetic stimulation of the brain. In th...

serotonin (5-HT) is a neurotransmitter regulating several fundamental functions of the body: thermorregulation, sexual and dietary behaviour, eye-sleep cycle, pain perception, anxiety, engine control, but above all known for mood control. The lack of serotonin in the central nervous system is associ...

‘titrebSummary’/titrebAped from the point of view of a pathogenic disorder of the link and intersubjectivity, the narcissic perversion will be questioned in the light of the true negative which it leaves in the psyche of her narcissic election object. Always in search of a coherent narcissic life, t...

The older population now accounts for an increasing share of consultations for depressive disorders, hence the importance of providing effective and optimal care. While cognitive-behavioural therapy has proven to be effective in these patients, it has limitations, hence the need for specific adaptat...

Many blog articles describe studies on the effects or relationship between physical exercise or physical activity and depression. In the specific context of clinical research focusing on the effectiveness of PA in the treatment of major depressive episodes, a significant number of studies have been...

Little is known about the psychological determinants of quality of life in brain metastases patients treated with neurosurgical techniques, in particular the contribution of cognitive and emotional functioning. Authors encourage the consideration of temporality in order to better understand the conc...

The relationship between stress and health have been the subject of a great deal of research, particularly with students in health training. Indeed, expectations of the university can generate stress and have harmful consequences on the physical and mental health of students (e.g., sleep problems, d...

fentanyl is a powerful opioid used in the treatment of moderate to severe chronic pain. It acts on mu receivers located on the spinal, supraspinal and peripheral level, thus generating analgesia and sedation. The administration of too high a dose can cause toxic effects such as respiratory depressio...

Objective. — Assess the value of musicotherapy in the care of chronic lumbalgic patients in hospitalised.Materials and methods. — Randomised, alternately randomised study in 65 chronic lumbalgic patients. Patients sonthospitalised for a period of 12 days. The intervention group (n = 32) receives fou...

‘titrebSummary’/titreb. through a psychanalytic conception of desires and depression (Freud, Lacan, Bowlby, etc.) we try to demonstrate that pathological depression is the reverse truth of the desire. Thus, it seems to me that the movement of desire is a sign of the success of the bereavement when p...

This text focuses on the Corrèze rye markets, drawing on the department’s mercury from the 1860 Free Trade Treaty until the end of the Great Agricultural Depression in 1896. From 1860 to 1882, all local markets are integrated and remain isolated from international trade. They are set up from 1883 on...

In the psychological or psychoanalytical literature, it is uncommon to find the “psychic errancy” understood as a concept or as a healthy process. This research presents our construction of a conceptual and metapsychological model of the psychic errancy by cross referencing some conceptualizations o...

In this storm, the ancient and current Venice symbolic is similarly connected by a network of intersigns to the apartment where the heros-narrator lives in a decati palace, ultimately leading to a coincidence in the past with the present. What could have been treated in a fantastic, or even psychiat...