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From a medical point of view, "sexual ambiguity" in new born babies has been categorized as a psychosocial emergency, which sets in motion a diagnostic and interventional protocol--both surgical and hormonal--in order to "determine" the sex and "correct" the body. From social and critical perspectives, it's preferred to speak about sexual variability, that is, about sexed bodies that don't fit into the dualistic expectations of what is considered a suitable for a man's or a woman's body, or in which the different sex components--chromosomal, hormonal, gonadal, or anatomic--are not consistent. In the last decades a strong controversy around intersexuality and the need to change not only the medical management, but also the social models, and the representation of the dualistic collective imagination, has arisen. Nevertheless there seems to be a wide gap between the medical management contexts and languages, and those typical of the political and human rights movements. Bioethical considerations, the role of support groups, and the possible social interventions may open channels of intervention and bridges for dialogue and translation among these isolated spaces. In this sense, this paper intends to analyze the meanings, uses, and practices of the psychosocial in the treatment and research of the intersexualities/DSD in order to explore up until what point there is a "psychosocial turn" taking place, or are we still in a predominantly biomedical management paradigm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper present a review of the development and current state of Chilean psychology. In 1946 formally establishes the formation of psychologists in Chile; in 1959, it made official the Association of Psychologists of Chile and in 1968 the College of Psychologists of Chile was founded. This puts Chile in the first countries in the region in the formal development of the discipline. Currently, there are 139 training programs in psychology, taught in 49 universities. Added to that, a growing supply of master’s and doctoral programs in psychology. With regard to the scientific development of the discipline shown a sustained increase in the number of published articles, noting that since 2011 has exceeded 100 items per year, although this production is linked to a few institutions and authors with high prominence. Additionally, a low collaboration between Chilean and Latin American researchers in studies and scientific productivity, despite sharing similar issues and problems observed. Regarding future challenges, it is necessary to increase systems quality assurance in pre and postgraduate courses, as well as the most influential psychologists of society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper takes very briefly on six decades of the history of psychology in the city of La Plata (Argentina), from the creation of the Pedagogic Department in the National University, in 1906, until the coup d'état of 1966, that put an end to the expansion of psychological studies that had started in 1958, after the creation of the psychology program. In that period, psychology would go through different phases, marked by oppositions such us “positivist naturalism"/ “anti-positivist humanism", “theoretical training" / “professional training", “scientific psychology" / “psychoanalytic psychology", etc. The goal of this work is to make an account of what happened at the time, giving as much importance to the individual actors as to the institutional and political factors that were present in the context. The methods are the traditional ones for history (mainly de gathering of oral, documentary and bibliographic sources. However, they have been interpreted from a critical perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The BLMP-101 peptide has the potential features to treat memory deficiency. The herein research aimed at corroborating the results obtained in previous researches and tests conducted on the effectiveness of the peptide BLMP-101 designed by the Computational and Structural Biochemestry Unit of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia. However, and unlike previous researches, the objective of this paper measured the effectiveness of the BLMP-101peptide, when supplied in different dozes and through intrahipocampal application to confirm its effects to facilitate spatial memory. 31 Wistar rats were used into 4 different groups: three treatment groups and one control group. The control group was infused with saline solution, and one of the treatment groups was infused with NMDA, while the other two experimental groups were infused with different dozes of the BLMP-101peptide (0.3, 3.0 ug/ul). Results suggest that the BLMP-101 peptide, when supplied in 3.0 ug/ul, facilitates spatial memory showing better results than the NMDA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Numerous authors have pointed out the importance of recuperating and giving its due worth to peasant and aboriginal knowledge when rural development initiatives emerge. Nevertheless the problem area related to the local knowledge concept continues presenting some dark points. Therefore, with the purpose of contributing to the topic, this paper analyzes local knowledge dynamics, particularly its value increase and reconfiguration based on the involvement of technical advancement and scientific knowledge. Keeping in mind the said purpose, this article presents the results of a research curried out in a peasant community of the Northeastern part of Argentina, where small producers' knowledge and lack of it were studied, as well as local knowledge invention, circulation, and consolidation processes from a historical perspective. Thus the dynamics involved are conceptualized with the support of frames of reference originated in social psychology, and a comprehensive model destined to describe and explain communal processes for inventing knowledge and the relationship between local knowledge and scientific knowledge has been proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper shows the relationship between Psychology and Public Health. The main tensions among these fields and the possible interdisciplinary conditions that will allow the production of beneficial effects in individual and population health are presented. Then, the encounters between Health Psychology -with a behavioral approach- and the dominant current of Public Health -based on an individualistic notion of the social and public issues- are described, especially in the areas of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Finally, some challenges for Colombian Psychology in order to advance in the integration with the Public Health in five scenarios are presented: as a field of knowledge, education, practice, research and as a scientific and professional community. The principal challenge is to develop a renovated approach from Health Psychology, constructing new models and approaches of individuality in relation to collectivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In most scientific writings, the word psychology describes things of a different and often incompatible nature. Sometimes, it refers to an entity, such as the mind, and sometimes to an occurrence, such as an activity. In this paper, it is argued that the psychological subject matter can not be an independent natural object, such as the Aristotle's composite of matter and form that he regarded as an entity and that instead the concept of event is a better descriptor. Psychological phenomena do not exist by themselves, but as the manifestation of particular properties of certain entities which exist in a Universe in everlasting motion. Since psychological events imply a reciprocal and uninterrupted transaction between living organisms and the environment in which they are embedded, functionalism, as it was first proposed, is the best approach to their study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper suggests an argument against the possibility of psychology's reduction into neurophysiology based on the notion of "boundary layer" developed by Jody Azzouni. After introducing, very roughly, the logical space occupied by this notion, both within Azzouni's philosophical doctrine as well as the philosophy of science in general, I suggest an argument in which the notion of "boundary layer" would show, once again, the methodological independence of cognitive science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]