Introduction: Stigma attached to mental health encompasses discrimination and exclusion of psychiatric patients and hinders their opportunities to have more productive and fulfilling lives. Moreover, stigma also exists among health professionals, and therefore, it hampers the provision of treatment and care and the promotion of mental well-being. This manuscript intends to assess and compare the levels of stigmatization toward patients with mental illness between medical students and doctors from different specialties. Methods: The Portuguese version of Attribution Questionnaire (AQ-27) was used to assess the attitudes of medical students (n = 203), non-psychiatry doctors (n = 121), and psychiatry specialists (n = 29) from the University of Minho and three hospitals in the region of Braga, Portugal (

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Coprophagia and entomophagia are two phenomena not commonly reported in the medical literature and their occurrence is usually associated with mental disorders. We present the case of a 59-year-old man with a history of alcohol abuse who was evaluated due to cognitive deterioration and disturbed eating habits including feces and living insects. Organic causes were ruled out and an important cognitive impairment became evident on neuropsychological formal test. The behavior remitted after antipsychotic pharmacologic therapy and alcohol detoxification, leaving the diagnostic impression of alcohol related dementia. This report shows a rare association of these two conditions in a patient with dementia.

Cannabis is the most cultivated and abused illicit drug worldwide. Paradoxically to the antiemetic properties attributed to cannabis, a relatively new cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (CHS) started to be recognized and is characterized by cyclic vomiting that are interspaced by asymptomatic phases. We present a case of a 36‑year‑old woman who repeatedly presented to the emergency room with cyclic vomiting that alleviated with hot showers. She was a long‑term cannabis user and the diagnosis was only established several years later after the onset of symptoms. The diagnostic work up was unremarkable, and the only effective treatment was cannabis cessation. Hot bathing behavior is a key characteristic of this syndrome. CHS is a new clinical condition that should be considered in a setting of recurrent and intractable vomiting in patients with a history of cannabis use.

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