Anxiety as an enhancing phenomenon in origin of stress, CAN and PTSD in disabled children. Contribution to the ICD-10 re-classification.

This paper studies the contribution of anxiety in origin of functional behavioural disorders of children. The intense sensing of anxiety attributes to the shaping of one's personality. Adaptation and adjustment, accommodation and assimilation to stressful conditions producing anxiety are analyzed.

Treatment of ADHD with French maritime pine bark extract, Pycnogenol.

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most common psychiatric disorder in children. Pycnogenol, an extract from the bark of the French maritime pine, consisting of phenolic acids, catechin, taxifolin and procyanidins, has shown improvement of ADHD in case reports and in an open study. Aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of Pycnogenol on ADHD symptoms.

On the psychopathology of patients with disorders in the descent of the testis.

The authors deal with disorders in the descent of the testis and analyse the causes and manifestations from the point of view of fertility and indications to medical treatment or early surgery. Thirty-nine patients were examined and diagnosed as unilateral or bilateral cryptorchism and retention of the testis. The spermatogenetic functions in individual diagnosis and type of operation are described.

Psychologic follow-up of personality factors in the chromosomal anomaly of Klinefelter's syndrome.

The authors deal with the psychopathology of the genetic-andrologic disorder of Klinefelter's syndrome. The problem is analysed from the point of view of mental level, personal characteristics, sexual life and tendency to psychical maladaptation in this disorder. In the theoretical part the results of researches of other authors are summarized.