Depression and pain: often together but still a clinical challenge: a review.

Depression is a common mental disorder with various symptoms and often accompanied with unexplained painful physical symptoms. Patients, especially in primary care, often present only with somatic symptoms and depressed mood is overlooked. On the other hand, psychiatrists don't pay enough attention to somatic or painful symptoms in patients with depression.

Acute psychosis and gender.

In this review of Psychosis and gender we will present the relevant. Treatment principles and consider the foreign and local published data.

Usher syndrome and psychiatric symptoms: a challenge in psychiatric management.

Usher syndrome, the most common case of deaf - blindness, may be associated with various psychiatric disorders. Inability of communication through spoken language in association with progressive visual impairment affects diagnostics and management in case of co-morbidity with mental disorder. A patient with Usher syndrome and psychiatric symptoms is described and the difficulties in psychiatric assessment in her case are discussed.

Family functioning of recovered alcohol-addicted patients: a comparative study.

Regaining the communication, concentration on role conflicts and strengthening of emotional ties are the central issues of socio-therapeutic approach to alcoholism. The aim of the present cross-sectional study was to compare family functioning between two groups of recovered alcohol-addicted patients. They were all participants of treatment program where complex therapeutic interventions were used, and were abstaining for at least 1 year.