[Detection of anti-Borna disease virus antibodies in patients hospitalized in psychiatric hospitals located in the mid-Western region of Poland].

Borna Disease Virus (BDV) is single stranded RNA virus, which may infect a wide range of animal species. Manifestations of the experimental BDV infection show some resemblance to psychopathological symptoms of mental disorders in humans. Several reports suggest the higher prevalence of anti-BDV antibodies in psychiatric patients than in healthy controls.

[Age-associated memory impairment].

This paper presents the diagnostic criteria for age-associated memory impairment (AAMI), proposed by the National Institute of Mental Health work group in the USA [1]. The paper also discusses the related notions and possibilities of differentiation between AAMI and dementia of the Alzheimer type.

[Dementia in diffuse Lewy body disease].

The article presents diagnostic criteria for dementia associated with diffuse Lewy body disease (DLBD) elaborated by the group of investigators from Nottingham (Byrne et al. 1991). These criteria allow to make the diagnosis of "probable" or "possible" dementia associated with DLBD.