[Complex therapy of schizophrenia].

Schizoprenia is not a consistent illness, but the symptoms free state do may achive with different methods. During the last fifty years the clinical psychopharmacology improved very quickly, but the psychotherapy and sociotherapy as well. The complex therapy of schizophrenia is a new method: the psychopharmacons together with psychotherapy (first of all with cognitive one), sociotherapy and psychiatric rehabilitation.

Comparison between genes of Alzheimer's disease and brain tissue of others.

We have examined samples from 14 donors that were prepared from 44 different anatomical regions of the brain. These samples were prepared both as frozen formalin-fixed, paraffin embedded. There were 310 frozen samples and 367 fixed samples.

Culturally-sensitive complaints of depressions and anxieties in women.

Background: Current classifications of Mental Disorders are centered on Westernized concepts and constructs. "Cross-cultural sensitivity" emphasizes culturally-appropriate translations of symptoms and questions, assuming that concepts and constructs are applicable.

Methods: Groups and individual psychiatrists from various cultures from Asia, Latin America, North Africa and Eastern Europe prepared descriptions of main symptoms and complaints of treatment-seeking women in their cultures, which are interpreted by clinicians as a manifestation of a clinically-relevant dysphoric disorder.

[Clinical observations with aripiprazole in schizophrenia].

The atypical antipsychotic aripiprazole was administered once a day by peroral dose--10-15 mg--in 103 schizophrenics; they were hospitalized or in day-hospital or outpatient department. During the simple blind clinical trial it was compared by 70 schizophrenics administered by haloperidol treatment (9-15 mg/day dose). The aripiprazole had good therapeutic effect at the positive and negative symptoms of acute schizophrenia, and at the other antipsychotic non-responder patients, and had no serious side-effects.