Oxygen is seriously detrimental to the mental salud…!

X annual meeting of the Basque-Navarre society of Psychiatry (Vitoria 29 and 30 September)

-oxygen is necessary for the body to function correctly but too much is harmful to the organism.

-vasco-navarros experts in psychiatry put on the table the therapeutic keys and the chronicity of mental diseases prevention.

Vitoria, September 2011. The Agency continually faces the stress of keeping at Bay the vital and non-toxic concentrations of oxygen, which must maintain a balance with antioxidant mechanisms. The body defends itself, but when oxidative factors outweigh the defenses, produced damage in nerve cells, which may be associated with cognitive damage.

Thus the President of the Basque Navarre society of Psychiatry, Ana González Pinto, confirmed during a press conference in which has presented the tenth meeting of the society held since yesterday, Thursday, September 29, until today Friday.

The meeting, declared of health interest by the education service of the Department of health and consumption of the Government, has the majority of Basque and Navarrese professionals dedicated to mental health to address in the papers the different treatments that are underway in the chronicity of Psychiatry

during his speech, the Chairperson pointed out that since the discovery of oxygen by Lavoisier is known to this gas of vital importance for human can become toxic.

Oxygen is necessary for the body to function properly and is vital to the cells because they sick and the individual would end up dying. But the excess oxygen is equally damaging to the body.

More than 90% of what you inhalamos through the respiration of the body is transformed into energy, but the remaining 5% is often the causative agent of what is known as cellular oxidation. This excess of oxygen directly attacks the cells that eventually will be affected.

In the case of mental health, neurons can be seriously affected in a long period of time by an excess of oxidation, brings cognitive damage as a result, present in dementias such as Alzheimer’s.

In this sense, during the meeting of the society, with the name, ‘ chronicity in Psychiatry: future challenges and therapeutic keys ’, dealt with chronic diseases such as the overhead of the caregiver, brain imaging, how affects the medication used in psychiatric treatment for erectile dysfunction, etc.

One of the key acts carried out in meeting of the society is also the delivery of the Ajuriaguerra award, given to individuals or institutions with a particular involvement in the advancement of the specialty or in the care of persons with mental illness.

This society aims to ensure the role of Psychiatry as a medical specialty within the health system and to boost an excellent attention to persons with mental illness; but it is also its mission to recognize the work done.