Biomedical subjects

B Boileau

Publications and source records attributed to B Boileau.

3 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed1997

Posttraumatic stress symptoms and medical procedures in children.

OBJECTIVE: To focus on posttraumatic stress symptoms after childhood diseases such as cancer, organ transplantation, and severe burns. METHODS: Differential diagnoses, risk factors, and treatment aspects (psychological and pharmacological) are discussed. RESULTS: The concept of adjustment problems in chronic or severe illnesses is widely used in pediatrics. Many aspects of severe childhood diseases are traumatic, as defined by the DSM-IV: severe illnesses are life-threatening, medical procedures threaten the child's physical integrity, and disorganized behaviour periods are common. CONCLUSION: This concept, which remains insufficiently investigated, is a promising area of investigation for prospective and prevention studies.

Adaptation, Psychological↗

PubMed1996

[Let us start medical school again! Value of problem-based learning].

In 1993, the University of Montreal Medical School changed from an old teaching curriculum to a new one with Problem-Based-Learning as its major component. The first group of problems covers growth and development at all ages. The authors present this new learning method and discuss their experience and that of students with problems involving physiologic, psychologic and environmental learning objectives.

Canada↗

PubMed1995

Case study: dreamy state and temporal lobe dysfunction in a migrainous adolescent.

Symptoms of migraine can be very atypical during childhood and adolescence. This article describes a case in which the symptoms of migraine were mainly psychiatric: dreamy state, intermittent confusion, partial amnesia, and childlike regressive behavior with depressive features. Although the results from neurological examinations and electroencephalographic recordings were normal when the individual was symptomatic or not, temporal lobe dysfunction, determined by 99mTc-hexamethyl-propyleneamine oxamine single-photon emission computed tomography, was evident during the migraine.

Adolescent↗