The feeders are usually people who encourage others (the "gainer") to increase their weight by the pleasure of seeing eat or see "fat" or, more often, because of the relationship of domination, control and dependency that this holds. Although still little studied, there are references to “feeding” as a fetishism, disturbance of eating, or even as a form of physical and psychological violence with special features.

Presentation of a clinical case (emerged in the consultation of general psychiatry) of a patient for 43 years, married, overweighted (because of imposed feeding of her husband) that presents depressive episodes. Hold a literature review based on the search Pubmed / Medline on the concepts of feeders and gainers and pharmacological approaches and psicotherapy.

There are numerous cases described in both sexes, weighing above normal and that fail to reach the ideal weight for food imposition of other persons, most often, someone close to the patient (spouse, parents, etc.). There is a need to distinguish this from the "fat lovers”, that as a sexual link. The imposition food can lead to an addiction control and the patient and the feeder often requires the psychiatry assistance in a systemic perspective.

Alcohol is represented in the arts since the beginning of time. Since the time of Baco and Dionísio to Impressionism, alcohol, and especially the wine, is an expression in the arts striking over the centuries and in various civilizations.

The authors propose to characterize the various forms of art that represented the alcohol. Since classicism, the liturgical representation of alcohol, through rebirth and finally “by the new art,” were the various representations of alcohol, seen as “representative” of several current and various forms of being in life.

The alcohol in the arts is the sociological expression of society deal with this issue. From initial Nectar of the Gods, the wormwood that served as a refuge for expressionists, the authors want to make a brief discussion of the evolution of the role of alcohol in society and its expression in the arts

Assessing the existence of risk behavior for the development of eating disorders in young people,

Cross study of students attending two schools (semi-urban and rural) and the university. There was registered individual weight and height and implemented questionnaires of food history, relationship with food, body image (BSQ) and the test of attitude towards food (EAT-26).

In the samples, there was a predominance of the female population (57%, 68%, 74% in Ceira, Pombal and the University). In samples with less than 18 years, the average weight is situated in the range 50-59 kg and the sample university in the range 60-69Kg. In all samples the height average is located in the range 1.60 m to 1.67 m. The satisfaction with the weight is higher in rural population (74%). It is, paradoxically, in the rural population, with mean age of 18 years who are the largest percentage of change in scales EAT-26 and BSQ (29 and 23%).

In all populations are uniform in terms of weight and height, and noted however, that the rural population, with an average of 18 years of age there is a predominance of abnormal behavior food and dissatisfaction with body image.

Depression is very common among institutionalized elders. Because of the increased risk of cognitive impairment/dementia, and mortality we want to describe the evolution of depression and analyze predictive factors.

In the Aging Trajectories Study (Instituto Superior Miguel Torga - Coimbra), we followed up a sample of 83 nondemented persons (M ± SD baseline age = 79.51 ± 6.58; men: 17; women: 66). In a 2-year prospective cohort analysis (2010-2011, and 2013), we assessed depression using the Geriatric Depressive Scale/GDS as screening tool and the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview to diagnose depression. We also used the UCLA Loneliness Scale, the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory/GAI, the Positive and Negative Affect Scale/PANAS. Sociodemographics, and health were control variables. We performed a multinomial logistic regression to identify predicitive factors.

Fifty participants had depression at baseline, nine developed, 49 maintained, nine remitted, and 16 maintained without depression.

Having depression was associated with worse scores in UCLA, GAI, and PANAS. Not having depression was correlated with higher positive affect.

Baseline higher GAI and UCLA, and lower positive affect and satisfaction predicted recurrent depression.

Improvement in GDS, GAI, and positive affect predicted depression remission.

Results show that depression is a concern issue for professionals working with institutionalized elderly. Anxiety, loneliness, low positive affect and satisfaction constitute a risk factor for maintaing depression in institutionalized elderly and low anxiety and depressive symptoms are a protective factors for depression. These results could be used in depression prevention programs.

Cognitive rehabilitation techniques, reminiscence therapy, and reality orientation therapy, have shown an impact on cognition, life satisfaction, mood, and on the progression of cognitive decline in elderly.

To test the effectiveness of a NRGP on the cognitive and emotional functioning of institutionalized elderly.

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single blind randomized controlled study with paired groups.

Coimbra institutionalized elderly, aged between 64-92 (N = 88) with cognitive impairment no dementia, mostly women (75.0%).

randomization of participants to the rehabilitation group/RG (n = 41) and to the comparison/waiting-list group/CG (n = 23). NRGP involved groups of five elders, and took 90 min. per day, once a week, for 10 weeks.

Mini-Mental State Examination/MMSE, Frontal Evaluation Battery/FAB, Geriatric Depression Scale/GDS.

We used general linear model with repeated measures analysis of variance.

RG improved significantly on cognitive, and executive function (p < 0.001), and CG worsened on cognitive, executive function, and mood (p < 0.01). There was a significant effect on the MMSE, FAB, and GDS scores, after excluding pre-rehabilitation scores as covariates [F (1, 81) = 43.98, p < 0.001; η2 = 0.35; F(1, 80) = 28.37, p < 0.001; η2 = 0.26; F(1, 79) = 19.66, p < 0.001; η2 = 0.20].

A NRGP including cognitive rehabilitation, reminiscence therapy, and reality orientation proved to be effective on cognitive and executive functioning, and on depressive symptoms of institutionalized elders with cognitive impairment no dementia.