Publications by authors named "Svetlinka Koleva"
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- Medication adherence is a major public health challenge in treating severe psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia, leading to the exploration of new treatment methods, such as implantable medication delivery systems.
- A study evaluated the attitudes of psychiatric patients and their families towards these implantable systems, including individuals with schizophrenia and mood disorders.
- Results show significant support for the implantable option, with nearly half of the patients and over 74% of family members expressing acceptance, suggesting it could be a viable alternative to traditional medication methods.
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- The study investigated how visuoperceptual (VP) and visuomotor (VM) processing streams interact in the brain by testing six patients with brain lesions and 26 healthy participants.
- Participants were asked to either grasp or estimate the size of a visual illusion presented to different sides of their visual field.
- Findings showed that intact-brain participants had a bigger illusion when estimating size than when grasping, and patients with right hemisphere damage had notable differences in their performance on the two tasks, indicating a stronger dissociation between VP and VM processing in the left hemisphere.
Background: The gene encoding the dystrobrevin binding protein (DTNBP1) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia by several association studies. We tried to replicate these findings in a sample of 488 parent-proband trios recruited in Bulgaria. Probands had a diagnosis of schizophrenia (n = 441) or schizoaffective disorder (n = 47).
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