About the event

Several mental illnesses and disorders are believed to be more prevalent according to gender. How much of this prevalence is due to biological factors, and to potential biases in the studies that have mapped out these mental health problems? Our gender identity certainly affects our experience of society, and influences the type of challenges we face. Does gender play a role in health, when we walk into a doctor’s office and seek treatment?

In collaboration with the Student Club on Mental Health and Inclusion, on June 29 we invited Inês Simões, a medical intern in Psychiatry in Hospital de Santa Maria, to talk about this issue.

BrainStorms is an initiative promoted by the Técnico Student Club on Mental Health and Inclusion, in collaboration with the Academic Development Office (NDA), which consists of monthly conversation series, via Zoom, with mental health and inclusion professionals. At the end, the participants can ask questions and interact with the speaker in a virtual Q&A session. Past sessions are available on the club’s YouTube channel.

This event is in Portuguese.