Publications by authors named "L Cichon"
: Early diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a very important factor for improving the quality of life of people on the spectrum, but it still remains a major problem in Europe, especially concerning girls. In this study, we tried to answer the question of what factors affect the age of diagnosis in Poland. Additionally, we tried to establish the time between the first visit to the mental health center (MHC) and the diagnosis in this population, and what factors affect its length.
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- - Clozapine is a highly effective antipsychotic, but it carries risks for severe side effects like neutropenia, which is a drop in white blood cells that can occur especially at the start of treatment or with additional risk factors.
- - A case study of a 23-year-old woman with treatment-resistant schizophrenia showed that severe neutropenia developed after her first COVID-19 vaccine dose and a subsequent SARS-CoV-2 infection, leading to complications even after changing her antipsychotic medication.
- - The case is notable as it suggests that neutropenia triggered by exposure to COVID-19 may persist even after stopping clozapine, and this is the first documented instance of such a reaction involving multiple
Background: In the current literature the influence of sex on the clinical presentation of the bipolar disorder (BD) in adults has been indicated. It was of the interest whether such a phenomenon is also present in the pediatric population.
Methods: The authors collected retrospective clinical data in 288 patients hospitalized on the psychiatry ward aged 10-17 years; 80.
Objectives: To determine the clinical picture of bipolar affective disorders (BD) in children and adolescents hospitalized at the Clinical Ward of Developmental Age Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (DAPP) in Sosnowiec, Poland.
Methods: Documentation analysis of 288 BD patients below 18 years of age. Detailed clinical and demographic data were collected and symptoms present during hospitalization were assessed.
Objectives: Clinical effects observed in cases of oxytocin deficiency can also manifest themselves in disorders of mechanisms responsible, for example, for its secretion. For oxytocin, this function is played by - among others - the cluster of differentiation antigen 38 (CD38). Existing literature along with the correlation between protein CD38 and oxytocin secretion raise interest in the context of their possible relation to the clinical picture and development of the autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
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