Around anesthesia: anesthetic aspects of electroconvulsive treatment in the light of the latest reports - review article.

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) remains the most effective method of treating acute mental conditions in psychiatry. The progress that has been made in anesthesiology in recent years allows for the personalization and optimization of electroconvulsive therapy through purely anesthetic interventions. There are few procedures in medicine where anesthesia would have such a direct impact on the effectiveness, or even success, of a given procedure.

Volunteers' psychological condition during the war in Ukraine - a survey.

Objectives: Our goal was to fill a literature gap regarding the impact of volunteering on volunteers' mental health.

Methods: Using social media platform "Facebook" volunteers were asked to fill in a self-developed research questionnaire concerning their well-being. The link to the survey remained open from April to May 2022.

Correlation between Selected Clinical Symptoms and Severity of Aggression, Impulsiveness and Their Selected Behavioral Manifestations in Patients with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Phenotype A.

Previous studies on aggressiveness and impulsiveness in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) are ambiguous. Furthermore, no biochemical or clinical factors related to these variables have been definitively confirmed. The aim of the study was to clarify whether, in women with phenotype A of PCOS, variables such as body mass index and clinical and biochemical hyperandrogenism have an impact on either the intensity of impulsivity or aggression or on other selected behavioral manifestations of these variables.

Multiple-Monitored Electroconvulsive Therapy (MMECT) - does it really just belong in psychiatry's past? A case report.

Electroconvulsive therapy has been a method used in psychiatry since 1938 and despite its rather turbulent history, it is still the most effective method of treating severe mental disorders. Despite its high efficiency and good safety profile, patients with catatonia usually require a large number of treatments. It entails a long hospitalization time and the necessity to repeatedly induce general anesthesia.

Persistent delusional disorder with delusions of poverty - a case study.

We present a case study of a patient who was hospitalized with the initial diagnosis of psychotic depression with predominant delusions of poverty. During his hospital stay despite antidepressant and antipsychotic treatment with 150 mg of sertraline and 20 mg of olanzapine per day, no symptomatic improvement was achieved. Besides, the psychotic features have risen to the fore along with inadequately vaguely expressed affective component.

Association Study of the (rs4354668), (rs2486001), and (rs2000959) Polymorphisms in Major Depressive Disorder.

The membrane excitatory amino acid transporter 2 (EAAT2), encoded by is responsible for the uptake and redistribution of synaptic glutamate. Glycine modulates excitatory neurotransmission. The clearance of synaptic glycine is performed by glycine transporters encoded by and .