Salvador Perona Garcelán

2 papers in the library · 10 citations · publishing 2020-2022

Papers

Validation of the aberrant salience inventory in a general and clinical Spanish population

Comprehensive Psychiatry August 18, 2022 Juan Francisco Rodríguez Testal, S. Fuentes-Márquez, Cristina Senín‐calderón et al. 5 citations

The Aberrant Salience Inventory (ASI) is a tool for measuring a psychological process linked to the onset of psychosis, where ordinary experiences become unusually noticeable or significant. A Spanish version of the ASI was tested in 6178 people, including 4523 adolescents, 1292 adults from the general population, and 363 patients with a mental health condition. The inventory worked similarly for men and women, and for both clinical and nonclinical groups. Scores tended to stabilize around age 19, suggesting a developmental change in motivation-related responses. Patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, other psychotic disorders, or bipolar disorder had the highest average scores, supporting the inventory's value for evaluating abnormal motivation in schizophrenia.

DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2022.152343 Psychopathology Salience neuroscience Psychosis Population +5

Ecstasy (MDMA): A rebellion coherent with the system.

Nordisk Alkohol Nark November 28, 2020 José Manuel García-montes, Marino Pérez-Álvarez, Miguel Ángel Sánchez-Moya et al. 5 citations

The development and mainstream integration of ecstasy over the past 45 years is best explained by a socio-cultural model rather than a purely medical or criminal one. The substance was shaped by successive groups—university students, gays, yuppies, and the New Age movement—each leaving its imprint. Ecstasy's link with techno music produced the socially integrated club scene and the initially countercultural rave movement. Over time, raves and ecstasy became absorbed into mainstream culture, inadvertently reinforcing capitalist postmodernity. The authors argue that a cultural perspective, emphasizing subculture, myths, and rituals, offers a more productive paradigm for drug research than current approaches, and propose blending academic and common knowledge for studying drug use.

DOI: 10.1177/1455072520954329 Full text