[Cerebrospinal fluid in clinical aspects of tuberculosis of the central nervous system].

Objective: To identify clinical features of tuberculosis of the meninges and central nervous system (TM) with detailed characterization of changes in the composition of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the initial period of the disease.

Material And Methods: We analyzed the results of the examination of 42 patients, aged from 17 to 49 years, who were hospitalized in 2005-2014.

Results And Conclusion: Most of the patients were admitted in the hospital in early acute disease onset.

Delirium associated with lithium-quetiapine combination.

Objectives: Acute lithium intoxication is a frequent complication of this treatment used for manic depressive disorders. Because lithium has a narrow therapeutic index and widespread use, its neuropsychiatric side effects are more prevalent than those of other psychotropic medications. There are only few reports about it within therapeutic serum levels.

Education and postgraduate education of psychiatrists in the Soviet Union and their integration into a new milieu. A view from the present to the past of former Soviet psychiatrists.

The article presents the problems and difficulties that psychiatrists from the former Soviet Union (FSU) have to cope with in Israel. Immigration and acculturation in a new milieu is a complex process and even more complicated for those whose specialty is medicine and particularly psychiatry. There is a wide gap between the skills and knowledge that new immigrants brought with them from the FSU and the professional demands in the new country.

Lithium intoxication associated with intramuscular ziprasidone in schizoaffective patients.

Antipsychotic agents have been used for the treatment of mood disorders in schizophrenic and schizoaffective patients. It has also been suggested that combinations of lithium and antipsychotics may be more effective than either class alone in treatment of schizoaffective patients. Lithium is known to interact with a variety of medications, including conventional and atypical antipsychotics.