The current economic crisis alter the environment on which based mental health.

-There are people metereosensibles people that is influenced by seasonal changes, the different winds and intensities of light, as well as the abrupt changes of temperature or the South wind

– the roots psychiatric violence in general, both domestic (who ensures that the physical and sexual aggressors are)(, often possessive controllers feature) as social, is a worrying aspect

-climate change, pathological gambling, the hypochondria, preoccupation with imaginary or exaggerated defects of appearance or the biological determinants of mental health are other issues placed on the table

Vitoria-Gasteiz, March 2012.- the environment goes beyond atmospheric phenomena as much as they also exert their influence on mental health. Beyond the biological predisposition and the genetic fault that determine the mental health of the individual, there are a range of social factors on which this balance is also built. So the you’re work derivative of the current economic situation, personal relationships, gender-based violence and violence domestic drug consumption in growing phase in the current state, or eating disorders, fruit of the dictatorship of the image, are issues that will be on the table in the 20th update course in psychiatry that takes place during the días 7, 8 and 9 March 2012 in Europe Vitoria-Gasteiz Palace and which has begun on Thursday March 7.

The scientific meeting had a preamble to open to the public and free entry of maximum interest on last Wednesday, 6 March of 2012, which led pos title does influence the weather in Mental health? and it has been pronounced by Mónica López Moyano, degree in physics of the Earth and the Cosmos, and presenter of the time in Catalunya TV3 and TVE, and Antonio Bulbena, Professor of Psychiatry of the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Director of the INAD, Institute of Neuropsychiatry and addictions, of the Parc de Salut Mar in Barcelona. It was discussed the influence of climatology in the mental health and the existence of person metereosensibles, people influenced by seasonal changes, the different winds and intensities of light, as well as the abrupt changes of temperature. The legislation of some countries even consider the Foehn wind South, as a mitigating circumstance in some crimes.

Between 400 and 500 specialists participate in the refresher course, which also addresses issues such as violence in general, both domestic (who ensures that physical and sexual offenders, frequently present, possessive controllers feature) as the social; the hypochondria (worry, fear of or the idea of serious disease, from misinterpretation of symptoms or bodily functions), and the disorder body dysmorphic, i.e. concern for imaginary or exaggerated defects of appearance; climate change, prevention strategies; innovative biological treatments, pathological gambling or biological determinants are issues to be addressed at the meeting.