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).

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.

[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.