Correction to: A loss of consciousness in a teenage girl with anorexia nervosa, due to polydipsia: case report and a minireview.

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A loss of consciousness in a teenage girl with anorexia nervosa, due to polydipsia: case report and a minireview.

Purpose: Anorexia nervosa is a chronic disease which may result in various complications. In pediatric clinical practice, it is common to observe complications related to progressive cachexia caused by malnutrition; however, cases of severe complications, like electrolyte disorders, which represent a direct threat to life, due to polydipsia, are rarely observed. The purpose of this study is to highlight that excessive drinking is of primary importance in anorexia nervosa patients, as it can result in severe medical complications, including increased risk of death.

Subjective daytime functioning assessment in people with insomnia.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and severity of subjective daytime functioning impairment among people with insomnia complaints. Another goal was to establish its relationships with age, gender, type and duration of subjective insomnia.

Methods: Study group consisted of NATPOL study participants - 2,413 people (1,245 women and 1,168 men) aged 18-79.

Prevalence of self-reported insomnia in general population of Poland.

Aim: The aim of this paper is to present the subjective insomnia prevalence. Assessment of sleep problems was a part of NATPOL study conducted to explore the risk factors for cardiovascular diseases.

Methods: The study group consisted of 2,413 people (1,245 females and 1,168 males) aged 18-79 and it was representative for the Polish population.

[Changes of coefficients of sleep onset, sleep maintenance and awakenings in most common psychiatric disorders in inpatients].

Introduction: The study's purpose was to find differences of selected psychopathological syndromes according to characteristic disturbances of sleep which are present in them.

Methods: Among 194 patients (mean age: 42.27 +/- 14.

[Clinical efficacy of citalopram in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder].

16 patients (9 female, 7 male; mean age 32.69 +/- 10.30) with coexisting obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and depression were treated for 6 weeks with citalopram (10-60 mg; mean dosage after 6 weeks--25.

[Prognostic value of pharmaco-EEG in depression treated with fluvoxamine].

14 patients (age 42.1 +/- 15.5; 12 women, 2 men) with a depressive episode (moderate, mild; ICD-10) were treated with fluvoxamine (150 mg).

[Prognostic value of pharmaco-EEG in depression treated with moclobemide].

Ten women (age 41.90 +/- 5.67) with depressive episode (moderate, mild; ICD-10) were treated with moclobemide (450 mg).

[Usefulness of an original questionnaire for the sleep pattern analysis in distinguishing between some psychopathological syndromes].

By the use of an original questionnaire constructed by the authors, sleep patterns in 194 patients with mental disorders admitted to the hospital were investigated. Six main psychopathological syndromes were diagnosed in this group. The results suggest that most of these syndromes exhibit their characteristic sleep patterns.

[Alprazolam in the treatment of anxiety disorders and mixed anxiety and depressive disorders. Results of multicenter clinical trial].

Alprazolam is one of the most commonly prescribed psychotropics drug all over the world. This suggests that alprazolam is very effective and safe. A multicentre clinical trial was carried out for assessing its efficacy and side effects.

[Depressive syndromes in patients dependent on alcohol with regard to mental disorders in the family].

We looked for the present and past history of functional disorders, especially mood disorders among 215 inpatients with diagnosis of alcohol dependence using Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia--Life-time Version (SADS-L). This same was determined in their first degree relatives using Family History--Research Diagnostic Criteria (FH--RDC). The incidence of mood disorders among probands was rather low--9.

[EEG sleep patterns and biogenic amine metabolizing enzymes in patients with endogenous depression].

Polygraphic sleep patterns as well as monoamine oxidase (MAO) and aldehyde reductase (AR) activity in blood platelets were assessed in 16 patients with endogenous depression. Results subjected to factor analysis revealed four essential factors. One of the factors was significantly loaded with MAO and AR activity as well as with REM latency and phasic REM percentage.

[Depressive symptoms in alcohol dependent subjects].

In the presence of contradictory estimations of frequency of depression among alcoholics, 84 in-patients from Department of Psychiatry, Medical Academy in Gdańsk, and from psychiatric hospitals in Starogard Gdański and in Frombork were studied; 64 were male and 22 female. The RDC criteria as well as SADS-L were used. In 13 subjects (15.