HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRY IN GEORGIA: HIDDEN PAGES (DEDICATED TO OUR TEACHERS).

Psychiatry preserves a special place among the diverse medical specialties. It is noteworthy that in Europe and America the professional and scientific psychiatry gradually emerged during the second half in 1800s. Roots of psychiatry in Georgia go back to the distant past.

[Pain perception among depressed heroin addict patients].

Investigation of heroin addict patients in post-abstinent state revealed that low mood, anxiety, tension and guilt feeling increased sensitivity toward pain, which mostly experienced as algetic, coenestetick and hypochondriacal sensations. Algetic symptoms highly correlated with psychopathology. Efficient treatment of psychopathological symptoms decreased pain.

[Sensory and psychoemotional productivity in the type I diabetes mellitus].

Depressive psychosis with anxiety or without it is the most spread disorder among the patients with diabetes mellitus. According to our investigations the depression was found in 36.6% of cases of patients with the I type diabetes mellitus which affects negatively their mental working ability.

Georgia mental health country profile.

This article is on the mental health of the population of Georgia describing context and mental health needs, extrinsic and intrinsic influences on mental health in the country, and health and social services for people with mental health problems and mental illnesses. The mental health profile of Georgia has been compiled with the help of an instrument developed by the International Consortium on Mental Health. Georgia is one of the former republics of the USSR with a population of about 4.

[Method of repair of anterior abdominal wall defects in children].

Experimental studies were conducted on 60 cadavers of children whose ages ranged from 0 to 14 years. A defect measuring 6-10 cm was formed in the muscles of the anterior abdominal wall (an approximate model of a hiatal opening). Several rows of crimping sutures were then applied to the aponeurosis of the rectus abdominis muscle above and below the defect.