This study is a literature review with a qualitative approach. It is justified by the significant increase in diseases acquired through lifestyle habits that generate health risks, which impair and are responsible for decreasing longevity and decreasing quality of life, such as hypertension, depression, obesity and respiratory tract diseases. Physical activity is recognized as a protective factor for health, and its benefits are associated with the reduction of chronic diseases and a decrease in the risk of premature death from diseases related to a sedentary lifestyle. The objective of this research is to search and identify, within the scientific literature, if there are in fact contributions from the practice of physical activity in subjects diagnosed with depression. For the categorization of studies and selection of materials, the following keywords were determined: physical exercise and depression and physical activity and depression. As inclusion criteria for data analysis and interpretation, the following were considered: articles in Portuguese, full texts, published in health journals, between the years 2005 to 2015. As exclusion criteria, we considered articles found by descriptors that did not contain one or more of the inclusion criteria. In this study, articles were selected by searching the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) and Lilacs. The choice of these databases was prioritized due to the quality and reliability of the materials available, and their easy access. 77 articles were found, of which 4 were selected to be part of this research. It can be noted that physical activity showed positive aspects and possible contributions and can be considered as a bias in an adjunct to conventional pharmacological treatments. The need for further clarification about the disease in relation to psychological, social and physiological issues is also evident, thus opening the possibility for further studies and research on the subject, so that in this way they can guide possible interventions that help in the treatment of the depression.Full article

The present study raises the problem of empathy of caregivers vis-à-vis patients in a covid/post-covid context. It is based on the observation that health workers are increasingly invaded by excessive fear and persistence of COVID-19 contamination. This induces avoidance, a certain suspicion, persecution and indifference/coldness towards patients, and plunges them into a strong insidious emotional deficiency. These attitudes, which are significantly close to paranoid and phobic access, seem to gradually dominate therapeutic interactions within hospitals. Freudian and Rogerian psychoanalysis advocates empathetic/benevolent listening, positive consideration and unconditional acceptance of the patient as ethical and deontological indispensable principles for any therapeutic evolution. Thus, it is predicted that within hospitals, the current non empathetic attitudes of care towards patients have their origin in a generalized covid-phobic atmosphere that develops a quasi-dominant paranoia in caregivers. Using a subscale of caregiver's Covid-phobic quasi-paranoia, and the one of caregiver's empathy in a covid/post-covid context, the data were collected from 126 participants including 55 nursing assistants, 61 state-certified nurses and 10 doctors, chosen at random from the staff of three (03) health facilities in the city of Bafoussam, MIFI department, West Cameroon region, including one (01) public district medical center (CMA) and two (02) private hospitals (clinics). After analysis, the results obtained sufficiently demonstrate that within the health institutions of West Cameroon, the higher the professional level of the caregiver, the more the severity of his quasi-paranoid covid-phobic accesses is significant, and the less he expresses an authentic empathy towards the patients who arrive at the hospital. This implies that in this period of health crisis, caregivers must reinvest in a real function of providers of affectivity and relay of empathy at the bedside of the patient both in hospital and outpatient. Thus, a real systematical vaccination operation may insure their total immunity and better reduce their quasi-paranoid empathy in this generalized Covid-phobic context.Full article

Major depressive disorder is characterized, among other symptoms, by depressed mood and anhedonia associated with a high rate of suicidal ideation. In recent years, research has shown reduced expression of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in limbic areas of individuals with depression. This reduction of BDNF is reversed by antidepressants in animal models of stress. Stress is one of the main triggers of mood disorders such as depression. Also, administration of BDNF increases the number of serotonergic fibers and serotonergic innervation, indicating an increase of serotonin in the synaptic cleft by this neurotrophin. Thus, BDNF appears to be one of the targets of antidepressant drugs for the increase of monoamines and remission of symptoms of major depression. The purpose of this review was to show the evidence that indicates BDNF as a molecular substrate for vulnerability to depression and the response of this substrate to the antidepressants.Full article

In the midst of the coronavirus outbreak, many countries around the globe initiated lockdown protocols and social distancing procedures for public safety that shifted daily routines to online activities through the internet. Such technology-led new normal life might augment internet addiction. For a better tomorrow, we must act now.Full article

This research deals with Design of a Movement Therapy in the form of Taekwondo and its Effectiveness on Easement of Clinical Symptoms in boys suffering from Deficit Attention and Hyper Activity Disorder [ADHD]. In terms of objective, it is a practical research and in terms of how it gathered data it is a half-pilot research of pre & post-test encompassing test and control groups. Samples were 32 children of 6-12 years of age who were ensured to have been suffering from ADHD as diagnosed by psychiatric clinics in Tehran. Sampling was made through easy method and test/control groups were formed randomly from among samples (each group containing16 members). ADHD was evaluated in samples using Conner’s teaching questionnaire pre & post-test questionnaire. To test group a 12-session long practice of movement therapy was prescribed in the form of Taekwondo. Findings were then analyzed using covariance analysis system. Results revealed that there is a meaningful relationship between movement therapy in the form of Taekwondo and easement of ADHD clinical symptoms in reliability of P<0.01). Therefore, difference of averages can persuade us that movement therapy in the form of Taekwondo is effective on easement of clinical symptoms of ADHD.Full article