Assessment of emotions in pregnancy: introduction of the Pregnancy Anxiety and Stress Rating Scale (PASRS) and its application in the context of hospitalization.

Objectives: Pregnancy is a special time that brings both joy and challenges. Among these challenges, anxiety and stress are emotions that can affect the mental wellbeing of the pregnant woman as well as the developing baby.

Material And Methods: In response to these challenges, we present the Pregnancy Anxiety and Stress Rating Scale (PASRS), an innovative tool that aims to identify and assess anxiety and stress levels among pregnant women.

Additional effects of therapeutic exercise and education on manual therapy for chronic temporomandibular disorders treatment: a randomized clinical trial.

Background: Previous studies have evaluated the implementation of behavioral approaches in individuals with chronic temporomandibular disorders (TMDs).

Objective: To evaluate the benefits of a behavioral approach to craniofacial pain. Second, we assessed the benefits of kinesiophobia, catastrophizing, mouth opening without pain, and forward head posture.

The position statement of the Working Group on the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorders in adults.

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental distress that occurs after participation in traumatic event such as the experience of natural disaster, car accident, terrorist attack or armed conflict, being a victim of sexual assault, tortured, physically abused, traumatized or being in any other life-threatening situation. The trauma victim does not always have to be in the position of the o directly threatened with physical harm. The disorder may be developed also as a result of an acute reaction to stress caused by participation in situation in which another person suffer so unimaginable that the further normal life of witness becomes impossible.

The position statement of the Working Group on the diagnosis of the post-traumatic stress disorders in adults.

Experiencing a situation of extreme danger can lead to serious stress disorders (such as PTSD) that can affect both the victims and the professional helpers. Military operations in Ukraine in the first half of 2022 started an ongoing migration crisis, resulting in the displacement of approximately 3.5 million people to Poland.

Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Genes Maintaining the Stability of Mitochondrial DNA Affect the Occurrence, Onset, Severity and Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder.

One of the key features of major depressive disorder (MDD, depression) is increased oxidative stress manifested by elevated levels of mtROS, a hallmark of mitochondrial dysfunction, which can arise from mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) damage. Thus, the current study explores possibility that the single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of genes encoding the three enzymes that are thought to be implicated in the replication, repair or degradation of mtDNA, i.e.

Psychiatric Treatment in Pregnancy: A Narrative Review.

Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium are a series of transformations and huge changes in a woman's life, which may also be accompanied by various mental problems. Very often, women experiencing mental disorders during this period and their doctors face a decision on safety of treatment. The purpose of the following review was to assess the safety of treatment during pregnancy.

Exploring the Heart-Mind Connection: Unraveling the Shared Pathways between Depression and Cardiovascular Diseases.

Civilization diseases are defined as non-communicable diseases that affect a large part of the population. Examples of such diseases are depression and cardiovascular disease. Importantly, the World Health Organization warns against an increase in both of these.

Experts and national consultants' recommendations regarding management of patients treated for migraine with comorbid depression. Diagnosis. Therapeutic strategies. Part 2.

Depressive disorders are currently diagnosed based on the ICD-10 and DSM-5 diagnostic criteria and include axial depressive symptoms and additional symptoms that must coexist for at least two weeks. Migraine is diagnosed based on the International Classification of Headache Disorders. It is generally divided into migraine with and without aura, and with regard to the frequency of attacks into episodic and chronic migraine.

Experts and national consultants' recommendations regarding management of patients treated for migraine with comorbid depression. Epidemiology. Pathomechanism. Comorbidity. Part 1.

Coexistence of migraine and depression is a significant clinical problem. Health examination surveys indicate that patients who suffer from migraine are more likely to develop depression than the general population. The inverse relationship is also observed.

Common pathomechanism of migraine and depression.

Migraine and depression often coexist and constitute an important clinical problem. Both disorders are associated with the necessity of chronic treatment, and their mutual coexistence contributes to the phenomenon of drug resistance. Influencing the functioning of patients, they also cause numerous social consequences - affecting the quality of life and achievement of personal goals of patients.

Personality Traits and Inflammation in Depressive Disorders.

Depression is a psychiatric disorder of heterogeneous etiology. One of the leading theories suggests an inflammatory background to it. It is often found in the scientific literature that certain personality traits, such as high neuroticism, low extroversion and conscientiousness, are being associated with depression.

Inflammatory Markers and Episodic Memory Functioning in Depressive Disorders.

Depression is a psychiatric disorder that is observed to be associated with changes in levels of inflammatory markers and deterioration in cognitive functioning. Here, we combined the biochemical tests of IL-1 and IL-6 serum levels and the expressions of genes encoding these interleukins with cognitive assessment of episodic memories, and examined 50 depressed patients and 37 healthy participants. Results confirmed increased serum levels of IL-1 and IL-6 in the study group when compared to healthy volunteers.

Inflammation and Cognition in Depression: A Narrative Review.

The authors aim to present a narrative review of research on the inflammatory aetiology of depression. Depression is a psychiatric disorder, constituting the most common reason of disability due to a health condition. It has been estimated that at least one in six people suffer from depression at some point of their lives.