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Mental health in the virtual world
Mental health in the virtual world
Trolls, haters, memes... Do we know how to deal with digital violence? The virtual world, supposedly not real, affects the feeling of the person who looks at it. As a result of the increase in anxiety and depression that social networks can generate, these experts will talk about the necessary limits on virtuality. Sofía Aragón, a model and actress, knows a lot about the subject from her own experience. Tere Díaz is a renowned psychotherapist, and Felipe Zámano is responsible for the UNAM Glossary of Digital Violence. A conversation to identify what makes us bad, and learn to navigate the virtual world in favor of our well-being.
Participants: Sofía Aragón, Felipe Zámano, Jesús Ramírez-Bermúdez
Moderator: María Emilia Beyer

Sofía Aragón
She is a Mexican producer, actress, screenwriter and writer, author of three books on mental health and quantum physics. She represented Mexico at Miss Universe 2019, where she was the second runner-up. She was the host for six seasons of La Voz Mexico and La Voz Kids. She has lectured all over Mexico, Colombia and New York and has given four lectures for Tedx Talks. She studied acting and film directing at the New York Film Academy (NYFA) in Los Angeles, California, and now she is dedicated to writing and producing stories within the cinematic world.

Felipe Zámano
He is a journalist from the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a communicologist specializing in politics and social networks. Recipient of the Walter Reuter Journalism Award in 2018. He was there from the first click of the site Político.m , first as a content curator and now as a collaborator and host of the podcast Encuentros: la democracia explicada. He was a journalist for the Collective Dromómanos, and editor of the magazine S1INGULAR. He is currently the coordinator of the University Seminar of Social Networks and Digital Culture of the UNAM and coordinator of the diploma of social networks and digital media from the Faculty of Higher Studies Aragon and the General Directorate of Science Dissemination of the UNAM.

Jesús Ramírez-Bermúdez
He is a physician specializing in psychiatry and neuropsychiatry at the National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery (INNN) in Mexico, where he directs the neuropsychiatry and cognitive neurology program. He has a PhD in Science from UNAM and is a professor of Scientific Methodology. He is a member of the National Research System of the National Council of Science and Technology.
He has published over 100 scientific papers in the field of clinical neurosciences. He has received awards in Australia (2006, International Neuropsychiatric Association), the United States (2011, International Conference on Bipolar Disorders) and the United Kingdom (2024, JNNP Lecture, British Neuropsychiatric Association). He published the treatise Principios de neuropsiquiatría (2019) and the text book Imágenes en neuropsiquiatría: lecciones de neurociencia clínica (2022).
He has also done extensive work in the field of scientific dissemination, literature and the cultural sphere. He is the author of the novel Paramnesia (2006, Penguin Random House) and the books Breve diccionario clínico del alma (2010, Penguin Random House), Un diccionario sin palabras (2016, Almadia), Depresión: la noche más oscura (2020, Penguin Random House) and La melancolía creativa (2022, Penguin Random House), which explore the boundaries between medical fiction, literary creativity and scientific essay.
In 2009, he won the Premio Nacional de Ensayo Literario from the Instituto de Bellas Artes de México.
Other activities involving the participant:
The need to "lose one's way." Madness and creativity

María Emilia Beyer
She is an expert in telling stories about science in exhibitions, radio, television and written media. She loves reading and writing; she is the author of nine popular science books for children and young people. She loves to design interactive exhibitions, such as Ciencia con sabor a chocolate and Mujeres inventoras. She works tirelessly to bring girls closer to science; she has been a master mentor of the New York Academy of Sciences for the international program 1000 Girls, 1000 Futures. Internationally, she is a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC) and of the Board of Directors of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) for Mexico. Since 2020 she has held the position of Director of Universum, the Science Museum of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Her favorite role in life is to be Mily's mom.
Other activities involving the participant:
The language of plants and animals
Literature between dogs and cats
The letters of the garden
Wild sex
Space science
Universum, Museo de las Ciencias de la UNAM and FIL Guadalajara