Psychopathology and resilience in relation to abuse in childhood among youth first referred to the psychiatrist.

Background/aim: Child abuse may be related to adverse psychological outcomes in adult life. However, little is known about specific clinical, family and resilience profiles of adolescents that have experienced child abuse. The aim of this study was to investigate clinical symptoms, family functioning and resilience characteristics of adolescents with the experience of abuse, first referred to psychiatrists.

Mental health law in Serbia - an important step towards destigmatisation.

Serbia has, along with other countries in the region, begun reform of its mental healthcare services. The delivery of mental healthcare was hitherto only partially regulated by law. Hence the National Committee for Mental Healthcare in Serbia has prepared a draft Mental Health Law within the context of a multicentre project entitled 'Enhancing social cohesion through strengthening community care' as part of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe.

[Sexual dimorphism and specificities of psychopharmacological treatment in women].

The scope of gender related differences observed in mentally ill persons provides a major source of inference about the role of gonadal steroids in brain function and behavior. Reported gender dimorphism in psychiatry includes the following: prevalence of certain mental disorders specific to female gender, phenomenology and treatment characteristics, i.e.

Depression with psychotic features in a child with SLE: successful therapy with psychotropic medications--case report.

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multisystemic, autoimmune disease of unknown etiology, which affects multiple organ systems, including the central nervous system (CNS). Neuropsychiatric manifestations are seen in 13-75% of all SLE patients, with equal frequency in children and adults. Despite a high prevalence of psychiatric manifestations, there is no consensus on the proper treatment of such cases.

State of psychiatry in Serbia--problems, advances and perspectives.

Serbia has been exposed to many severe stressors during the last 20 years and as a result there is an increase of the incidence of mental health problems in its population, so that mental disorders are the second largest public health problem, after cardiovascular diseases. The National Strategy for Development of Mental Health Care was approved by the government in January 2007 which initiated the reform of psychiatry in the country. The major advantages of the existing organization of mental healthcare are a sufficient number of psychiatric services and the number of well educated professionals, but there are considerable problems in big psychiatric hospitals which are significantly overcrowded with patients, as well as with the lack of a network of community services.

[Adjustment disorders in hospital treated adolescents: a follow-up study].

Introduction: Adjustment disorders represent a frequent diagnostic entity especially among adolescents. They involve a wide spectrum of various emotional and behaviour problems.

Objective: The aim was to investigate characteristics of diagnostic category known as adjustment disorders among hospital treated adolescents for the first time at the Clinical Department for Children and Adolescents of the Institute of Mental Health in Belgrade, during five consecutive years, as well as to investigate the outcome of the disorder in follow-up period.

[DiGeorge syndrome: a case report].

Introduction: DiGeorge syndrome is a genetic disorder caused by deletion of chromosome 22. The main features are congenital heart disease, absence or hypoplasia ofthymus (with consecutive immunodeficiency and infections), hypoparathyroidism with consecutive hypocalcaemia, gastrointestinal problems, Delayed psychomotor development, abnormalities of head and face, tendency to develop seizures and psychiatric disorders. Syndrome can be detected prenatally, or during early development, which is of great importance for preventive and therapeutic measures.

Mental healthcare in Serbia.

Serbia is located on the Balkan peninsula, which served for centuries as a vulnerable crossroads between the East and the West. At the beginning of the 1990s, some of the republics of the former Yugoslavia, including Serbia, were involved in disastrous civil conflicts. In 2006 Serbia became a sovereign republic.

Changing attitudes of high school students towards peers with mental health problems.

Background: Stigma refers to the undesirable characteristics linked to mental illness and the adverse cognitive and behavioral consequences. Stigma causes a spiral of alienation and discrimination, leading to social isolation that diminishes chances for recovery. There is a great need for antistigma programs in order to decrease stigma related to persons with mental health problems.

[Internet addiction--a case report].

Some addictions cannot be connected with substance abuse (pathological gambling, video games playing, binge eating, compulsive physical activity, emotional relationship addiction, TV addiction). Since 1995, Internet addiction has been accepted as a clinical entity with profound negative effect on social, familial, educational and economical personal functioning. The diagnosis of Internet addiction could be established if the person spends more than 38 hours per week on the Internet exempting online professional needs.

[Morphological and laminar distribution of cholecystokinin-immunoreactive neurons in cortex of human inferior parietal lobe and their clinical significance].

Introduction: Cholecystocinine is a neuropeptide whose function in the cortex has not yet been clarified, although its relation with some psychic disorders has been noticed. Previous studies have not provided detailed data about types, or arrangement of neurons that contain those neuropeptide in the cortex of human inferior parietal lobe. The aim of this study was to examine precisely the morphology and typography of neurons containing cholecytocinine in the human cortex of inferior parietal lobule.

[Psychosomatic concept of hyperthyroidism-Graves type--behavioral and biochemical characteristics].

Introduction: In this study we test the hypothesis that specific behavioral and biochemical vulnerabilities characterize individuals with hyperthyroidism-Graves type, one of the classically cited "psychosomatic disorders".

Material And Methods: The sample included 24 subjects with Graves disease and 34 controls. All participants were evaluated for personality and temperament characteristics and for platelet MAO activity.

[Attitudes of psychiatry residents toward mental illness].

Introduction: Attitudes of lay people and physicians towards mentally ill patients are frequently highly biased. The aim of this study was to investigate differences in attitudes of psychiatry and internal medicine residents toward mental illness and to establish the relationship between their attitudes and their personal characteristics.

Material And Methods: The sample consisted of 45 psychiatry and 36 internal medicine residents.

[Treatment of neglected and abused children and their families in the context of complicated divorce].

Introduction: Coceptualisation of complicated divorce, as an escalation of systemic dysfunctioning in a highly disturbed and unbalanced system, acquires attributes of trauma-organised-system, and yields itself for therapeutic interventions.

Complicated Divorce Issues: The authors comment on their experience while treating families sent by Court order in divorce custody disputes, with explicit aim of evaluating parental competence. This type of systemic dysfunction is severely affecting communication styles, family rules and norms, whereas parenting is frequently marked by tendency to repeat relational-style experienced in marital, partners' conflicts.

[Marital dysfunction and personality characteristics of partners].

Introduction: A number of studies indicate that an early trauma is of extreme importance (most often experienced in the family of origin) in developing personality disorders. Researches on correlations between family dysfunction and individual psychopathology have been rare and controversial. The reason for this stems from an attempt to establish links between traditional medical models and systemic family therapy.

[Effects of ginkgo biloba extract on an experimental model of epilepsy].

Introduction: The active ingredients of ginkgo biloba extracts were determined by biochemical analyses in the last ten years and they are widely used in classical medicine. The active substances of ginkgo biloba extract, mostly affect muscarinic receptors and adrenergic receptors to a lesser degree. Recently, potential effects of ginkgo biloba on NMDA receptors and on epileptogenic seizures have been considered.

[About the professional and ethical profile of an extraordinary physician, humanist and pedagogue, Professor Niko Miljanic].

Dr. Niko Miljanic anatomist and surgeon, ordinary professor of the Medical Faculty in Belgrade, had been managing there the anatomy teaching during the period 1920-1934, then held lectures on surgery propedeutics since 1935 till 1947, when being a principled person with the moral sense for the profession and his task as an university professor, after his action as a member of the committee for Election of the Medical Faculty Teachers, he was relieved in 1954 year from the faculty. Professor Miljanic was the author of our first textbooks of anatomy, a monography on asepsis as well as a lot of scientific articles on anatomy and surgery in different journals at home and abroad.