The specificity and the affective sign of autobiographical memories in individuals with depressive disorders and alcohol use disorder.

Objectives: Mental disorders may disrupt autobiographical memory (AM). An example is over general memories - without details, generalized or semantic. This paper assesses the functioning of AM in a depressive episode (DEP) and alcohol use disorder (ALC).

The comparison of nucleotide metabolites and amino acids patterns in patients with eating disorders, with and without symptoms of depression.

Purines, pyrimidines, and amino acid level have gained attention recently as potential determinants of mental disorders. However, eating disorders patients (ED) have not been yet appropriately studied, especially subjects with coexisting mood disorders. This paper examines the serum level of nucleotide catabolites and plasma amino acids in eating disorders with hyperphagia, with and without Major Depressive Disorder (MDD).

Comparison of plasma nucleotide metabolites and amino acids pattern in patients with binge eating disorder and obesity.

Binge eating disorder (BED) increasingly affects population, but the mechanisms of the disease and its biomarkers are not well characterized. Recently, plasma purines, pyrimidines, amino acid and nicotinamide metabolites profiling attracted attention in studies on pathology and biomarkers of mental disorders but has not been adequately studied in BED. Blood and plasma samples were taken from patients with adult obese with BED (n = 20) and control adult obese without BED (n = 17).

Application of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) in individuals after stroke.

Objective: To examine the effects of Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) in individuals after stroke on self-efficacy, symptoms of depression and anxiety.

Design: Randomized controlled trial.

Setting: Clinic of Adult Neurology of Medical University of Gdańsk and M.

Autobiographical memory and its meaning in selected mental disorders.

This paper presents the general characteristics of the phenomenon of autobiographical memory (AM), the current knowledge of the subject and describes hitherto identified distortions of AM in mental disorders.AM is the part of memory concerning the personal past of an individual. It includes episodic and semantic memories associated with an identity.

Hollow mask illusion - is it really a test for schizophrenia?

Objectives: The aim of the study was an assessment of the phenomenon of depth perception in schizophrenic patients compared to healthy subjects.

Methods: We conducted a comparison erroneous assessment of the concave side of the mask as convex, using the popular website presenting rotating Charlie Chaplin's mask. The study was performed in patients hospitalized at the Stanisław Kryzan Psychiatric Hospital in Starogard Gdanski diagnosed with paranoid and undifferentiated schizophrenia based on ICD-10 criteria and control group matched for age and education; each group included 58 subjects.

Clinical utility of chosen factors in predicting post-stroke depression: a one year follow-up.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to identify possible interrelation between the presence of post-stroke depression (PSD) and chosen clinical and demographic parameters.

Methods: Initially 116 patients (61.4 ± 12.

[Perception of physiological visual illusions by individuals with schizophrenia].

Visual perception by individuals with schizophrenia has not been extensively researched. The focus of this review is the perception of physiological visual illusions by patients with schizophrenia, a differences of perception reported in a small number of studies. Increased or decreased susceptibility of these patients to various illusions seems to be unconnected to the location of origin in the visual apparatus, which also takes place in illusions connected to other modalities.

[Mineralization of the basal ganglia as the supposed cause of poor tolerance of zuclopenthixol in a patient with long-term untreated paranoid schizophrenia].

Formations described as intracranial calcifications can appear in the course of diseases of the central nervous system, other systems and organs (e.g. endocrine), but also as a disorder of idiopathic character.

[Screening post-stroke depression using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale].

Introduction: Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) for its simplicity is potentially useful for screening depressive and anxiety disorders in post-stroke patients. To our best knowledge HADS hasn't been assessed in the Polish population of post-stroke survivors.

Aim: Assessment of clinical value of HADS in screening depressive and anxiety disorders in post-stroke patients.

[Somatopsychic and cenesthetic types of schizophrenia: common features and discrepancies].

The aim of this paper is to discuss the development of the concepts of cenesthetic type of schizophrenia and somatopsychic type of schizophrenia along with the review of differences between those two diagnostic approaches in scope of their historical background and the current diagnostic concepts. Those independently described diagnostic phenomena have some common features. However, the cenesthetic type of schizophrenia emphasises sensory elements of the disorders and includes a broader spectrum of the psychopathology while the somatopsychic type of schizophrenia focuses on the thought disorders and strictly schizophrenic psychopathology.

[Abdominal dystonia in a patient with schizophrenia: a case report].

The case of 31-year-old woman suffering from schizophrenia with movement disorder is described. The patient had a 7-year history of schizophrenia. In course of the psychiatric treatment the patient presented dystonic movements within abdominal muscles.

Psychogenic axial myoclonus: report on two cases.

Axial myoclonus (AM) is characterized by sudden muscle jerks involving axial and proximal muscles. It includes propriospinal myoclonus (PSM) which consists of trunk flexion or extension jerking with activity arising in axial muscles and spreading to caudal and rostral muscles at low velocity along propriospinal pathways. We report on two patients displaying flexion AM jerks in the absence of structural lesion of the central nervous system or electrophysiological evidence of organic origin.

Wilson's disease associated with delusional disorder.

Wilson's disease (WD), or hepatolenticular degeneration, is a genetic neurodegenerative disorder of copper metabolism. It is an uncommon medical condition that produces psychiatric symptoms during the early phase in approximately 50% of patients. Reported herein is a case of WD in a young man presenting persistent delusional disorder of organic etiology, which resolved entirely after 4 months of combined pharmacotherapy.

[Changes of coefficients of sleep onset, sleep maintenance and awakenings in most common psychiatric disorders in inpatients].

Introduction: The study's purpose was to find differences of selected psychopathological syndromes according to characteristic disturbances of sleep which are present in them.

Methods: Among 194 patients (mean age: 42.27 +/- 14.

[The stroke variables assessment as a prognostic factor for post-stroke depression with the emphasis on the cerebral SPECT regional blood flow asymmetry].

Aim: The aim of this paper was to assess the risk for depression in a 6-month-long post stroke follow up period as related to the stroke variables (i.e. stroke localisation, haemodynamic parameters).

[Giant meningioma of the cranial vault and brain: a report of two cases who had not consented for more that 10 years].

It is extremely rare nowadays to meet the patient with a giant tumour of the skull and brain with deformity of the head and who has not consented for any treatment for many years. We present two rare cases of large tumours. The first case is an example of good prognosis of the surgical procedure despite the extensive size of the tumour.

[Opinions on the subject of sex life among students of the Medical University in Gdańsk].

Aim: The aim of this study was to illustrate opinions on the subject of sex life among students of the Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk.

Method: A group of 340 medical students aged 18 to 28 (195 females and 118 males) were examined with the study questionnaire from October till December 2003. The examined group was representative for the investigated population (chi squared test: p> 0.

[Sexual behaviors among students of the Medical University in Gdańsk].

Aim: The aim of this study was to illustrate sexual behaviours, needs and expectations as well as attitudes towards contraception among students of the Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk.

Method: A group of 340 medical students aged 18 to 28 (195 females and 118 males) was examined with the questionnaire from October till December 2003. The examined group was representative for the investigated population (chi squared test: p> 0.

Factors associated with depression in Parkinson's disease: a cross-sectional study in a Polish population.

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and factors influencing depression in PD patients in a cross-sectional outpatient clinic - based Polish patients sample.

Materials And Methods: One hundred consecutive PD patients were included in this study; 35 of them fulfilled DSM-IV criteria for Major Depression and its severity was assessed with Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS). A structured interview and a neurological examination, including Hoehn and Yahr scale (H-Y), Schwab-England disability scale, II, III, IV parts of Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS), and Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) were performed.