Psychosomatic disorders in young adolescents and future adults

From the Greek “soma” means body: people suffering from psychosomatic disorders express psychological distress through the body. Historically, the term “psychosomatic” is associated with a series of somatic diseases, in whose etiology and pathogenesis a significant presence of mental factors has been demonstrated, such as stressful emotional experiences, personality factors and conflicting conditions of a…

Effects of alcohol and adolescence

Adolescence is a stage of human development characterized by wonderful dynamic transformations that take place in the context of physiological, psychological and social variations. Everyone knows how high young people’s propensity towards risk is. Alcohol is not only one of the most widespread addictions worldwide, but also the most preferred by adolescents. The central reason…