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The Use of Ascorbic Acid in Adjunctive Treatment for Schizophrenia-Current State of Knowledge.
Life (Basel)
June 2024
Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medical Sciences in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, 40-055 Katowice, Poland.
Schizophrenia is a mental illness characterized by disturbances in the perception of reality, thinking, emotions, and social functioning. This significantly impacts the quality of life of patients and leads to long-term disability. Despite advances in understanding its pathogenesis and treatment, schizophrenia remains a clinical challenge, especially due to the diversity of its symptoms and the complexity of its mechanisms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAssessment of symptom severity in psychotic disorder patients based on heart rate variability and accelerometer mobility data.
Comput Biol Med
June 2024
Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medical Sciences in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, Pyskowicka 49, Tarnowskie Góry, 42-612, Poland.
Background: Advancement in mental health care requires easily accessible, efficient diagnostic and treatment assessment tools. Viable biomarkers could enable objectification and automation of the diagnostic and treatment process, currently dependent on a psychiatric interview. Available wearable technology and computational methods make it possible to incorporate heart rate variability (HRV), an indicator of autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity, into potential diagnostic and treatment assessment frameworks as a biomarker of disease severity in mental disorders, including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (BD).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCognitive functions and sense of coherence in patients with carotid artery stenosis-Preliminary report.
Front Psychiatry
September 2023
Third Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medical Sciences in Zabrze, Silesian Center for Heart Diseases, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Zabrze, Poland.
Background: There is scarcely any data in the available literature on the relationship between sense of coherence (SOC) and cognitive functioning, and no information on the relationship between SOC and cognitive parameters in patients with carotid atherosclerosis.
Aim: The aim of this paper was to determine the relationship of SOC measured prior to carotid artery stenting (CAS) with neurocognitive functioning in patients with carotid atherosclerosis 12 months after CAS.
Methods: A total of 35 patients with carotid atherosclerosis completed the SOC-29 Orientation to Life Questionnaire (SOC-29) and completed a cognitive test battery twice, i.
Prevalence of Insomnia in the Early Post-COVID-19 Recovery Period.
Int J Environ Res Public Health
October 2022
3rd Department of Cardiology, Silesian Center for Heart Disease, 41-800 Zabrze, Poland.
Background: Sleep is a complex, reversible process that is responsible for the modulation of various physiological mechanisms. COVID-19-related sleep disorders are affecting different populations with a heterogenous prevalence, yet high rates among infected patients are frequently reported. The aim of the study is to assess the prevalence of insomnia in the early post-COVID-19 recovery period and explore the differences in the results acquired by the Athens Insomnia Scale (AIS) by gender and selected infection severity parameters.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Structure of the Relationship between Physical Activity and Psychosocial Functioning of Women and Men during the COVID-19 Epidemic in Poland.
Int J Environ Res Public Health
September 2022
Department of Neurology, Neurological and Psychiatric Nursing, Chair of Conservative Nursing, Medical University, 20-059 Lublin, Poland.
Since the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is a serious crisis in many countries around the world, it is important to conduct empirical research aimed at identifying risks and factors protecting the functioning of people affected by it. For this reason, the goals of the present research were to determine the level of physical activity and the severity of symptoms characteristic of mental disorders, cognitive disorders and the quality of social functioning, as well as the structure of the relationship between physical activity and psychosocial functioning of 226 women and 226 men during the COVID-19 epidemic in Eastern Poland. The research was conducted using the , , , the original and a self-developed sociodemographic survey.
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