Overview of Studies on the Efficacy of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on the Severity of Symptoms of Major Depressive Disorder, Conducted in University Psychiatric Hospital Sveti Ivan 2016-2022.

This brief report presents the studies on HF rTMS efficacy on major depressive disorder (MDD) symptoms conducted in University Psychiatric Hospital Sveti Ivan from 2016 to 2022. We assessed the clinically relevant effects of rTMS delivered by H1-coil and the figure-8-coil on MDD symptoms severity in the pooled sample of patients. During the last seven years, we enrolled in the studies on MDD 336 patients with a median (interquartile range; IQR) age of 53 (45-61) years, 181 (54%) of them women.

Efficacy of Center for Integrative Psychiatry Multimodal Early Intervention Services in Early-Phase Psychosis on Hospital Readmission.

Background: Growing body of evidence has opened new opportunities to enhance treatment outcomes during early-phase psychosis (EPP). The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of the Centre for integrative psychiatry (CIP) multimodal Early Intervention Services (EIS) on time to relapse in the patients with early-phase psychosis (EPP) during 12 and 24 month period.

Subjects And Methods: We performed a retrospective cohort study on the sample of 454 EPP patients (duration of the diagnosed disorder ≤5 years) admitted to Psychiatric Hospital "Sveti Ivan", Zagreb Croatia, from January 2, 2015, to December 5, 2018, for the acute treatment of EPP.

Clinical Challenges in Patients with First Episode Psychosis and Cannabis Use: Mini-Review and a Case Study.

The influence of cannabis use on the occurrence, clinical course and the treatment of the first psychotic episode (FEP) is well documented. However, the exact link is still not clearly established. The aim of this article is to review and report the noticed increase in the number of hospitalizations of young people with a clinical appearance of severe psychotic decompensation following cannabis consumption and to show the clinical challenges in treatment of the FEP.