Orbitofrontal syndrome is characterized by disinhibition, impulsiveness, transgression of social norms and sometimes thedevelopment of criminal behavior. This is the case of an 18-year-old male offender incarcerated for kidnapping, rape andhomicide of a minor. He was evaluated through interviews and the use of the Eysenck personality questionnaire (Form B), Raven’s progressive matrices (RPM), Rey–Osterrieth complex figure (Form A), Differences perception test (FACES-R), Stroop color and word test (SCWT), Mini-Mental state examination (MMSE) and Aggression questionnaire (AGQ). The research subject showed age-appropriate speech, language and vocabulary, and had neither physical problems nor attention, language, writing, reading, praxis, calculation, perception and memory disorders. The results highlight a higher-than-average intelligencequotient, optimal cognitive skills, melancholic t...

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It is just over a year since the World Health Organization (WHO) was informed by the Chinese authorities of 27 cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology in the city of Wuhan. Thirty days later, the outbreak of a new coronavirus was declared a public health emergency of international concern, which in just one week had already recorded more than two tens of thousands of cases worldwide (99.2% in China and 0.8% in 24 other countries), so the WHO warned that the risk of spread would be very high in China and high throughout the rest of the world. Today we are faced with a figure that exceeds 93 million cases and more than 2 million deaths in the world. In Peru, more than one million cases and 38,000 deaths have been reported.

Health Universal Coverage is one of the principal public policy impulsed in the last decade in our country, despite four different national administrations their importance remains in the agenda. The advances in this process are evident in the increment of the insurance coverage, that in case of Seguro Integral de Salud (SIS) was broaded from 19,4% in 2006 to 50,2% in 2015 (National Household Survey – NHS). However, it is real that while in 2006, 44,9% of affiliates to SIS sought attention for health problems in public health establishments of national, regional o local level, this proportion decrease to 31,7% in 2015. These results force us to pay attention to other factors that would be restricting the improvement in the health services access, especially in poor people protected financially. Among the challenges to increase the provisional coverage are the gap in infrastructure and ...

Objective: To estimate the frequency of migraine, associated factors and disability generated                  (including its relationship with academic performance) in medical students at a private university in Metropolitan Lima. Methods: Cross-sectional study in a non-probabilistic convenience sample using the online application of the ALCOI-95 self-questionnaire, to assess the presence of migraine, followed by the MIDAS questionnaire to measure disability in those positive to the first questionnaire. . Results: Fourty-five (21.6%) of 208 students experienced migraine (12.5% with aura and 9.1% without aura), 14 (33.3%) of whom showed severe, and 12 (28.6%) moderate disability. Migraine with aura carriers had a lower mean than the cumulative weighted average of their academic scores. Independent factor...