Revista médica de ChileApril 1, 2023Francisco J. Villalón López, Maximiliano Escaffi‐Schwarz, Adrian P. Mundt4 citations
BACKGROUND: The increasing use of Mindfulness-based interventions requires standardized construct-based measurement instruments for clinical and research purposes. The Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire scale with five factors was developed in the United States and validated in Spain. There are versions of 39, 24 and 15 items (FFMQ-39, FFMQ-24 and FFMQ-15). OBJECTIVE: To validate the FFMQ-24...
Revista médica de ChileJuly 1, 2019Juan Campodónico, Paula Aedo, M. Ignacia Montané et al.8 citations
Phyllomedusa bicolor or Kambo is a frog that lives in the Amazon rainforest. It can release through its skin a substance used in healing rituals that are common among South-American tribes, as well as in urban people of America and Europe. We report a 41-year-old female patient who, during a healing ritual consumed ayahuasca (a drink obtained from the mixture of Banisteriopsis caapi, Psychotria...
Revista médica de ChileApril 1, 2019Manuel E. Cortés, Yanara A Bernal, Renán Orellana4 citations
Señor Editor:La legalización del uso medicinal y recreativo de la marihuana (Cannabis sativa) es un tema de controversia mundial.Un artículo en Nature Reviews Neuroscience 1 destaca que el uso de Cannabis es cada vez más importante para la medicina moderna, especialmente en el tratamiento del dolor y de trastornos motores.Sin embargo, su uso más extendido es «recreacional» debido a las...