An uncontrollable gambling addiction.

Same authors regard gambling as addiction. A detailed psychiatric examination revealed the obsessive-compulsive syndrome in the patient. The authors treated the patient systematically using the individual psychotherapy and sertraline from low doses up to the maximal dose (i.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder secondary to a right parietal lobe haemorrhage: a case report.

This case report presents a 39-year-old previously healthy man, who presented with typical obsessive-compulsive disorder and neurological symptoms and was found to have a right parietal lobe haemorrhage. His psychiatric and neurological recovery was associated with a complete radiological resolution. This report is consistent with recent imaging studies implicating the parietal lobe in the pathogenesis of obsessive-compulsive disorder and adds haemorrhage to the list of organic cerebral lesions causally associated with this disorder.

Treatment of postpsychotic depression with sertraline in patients with schizophrenia--own experience.

Some authors treated two groups of patients with postpsychotic depression in a group of patients with schizophrenia. Sertraline proved better than imipramine in view of earlier onset of action and lower incidence, intensity and duration of adverse effects and lower risk of schizophrenic symptom recurrence.

Treatment of postpsychotic depression with sertraline in patients with schizophrenia.

Some authors treated a two groups of patients with postpsychotic depression in a groups of patients with schizophrenia. Sertraline proved better than imipramine in view of earlier onset of action and lower incidence, intensity and duration of adverse effects and lower risk of schizophrenie symtom recurrence (Ref 4).

Symptomatic depression after long-term steroid treatment: a case report.

Good results of the treatment of mood disturbances and psychoses induced with steroid administration are in agreement with the fact described in literature of serotonin release reduction caused by steroids and possible relationship between depressive and psychotic manifestations and low seretonin level in cerebrospinal fluid. The patient had no head trauma in the past. He denied any loss of consciousness.

A case of "double" depression under outpatient treatment conditions.

During his professional practice the author encountered a case of coexistence of "major depression" with psychic depressive attacks (dysthymic attacks) of so-called temporal epilepsy. Apart from major depression of medium intensity, other manifestations developed. These were independent of the time of the day, suddenly occurring within several seconds, developing without any cause, attacks of very strong dejection, sadness, breakdown, feeling of lacking sense and hopelessness of life with slight lessening of consciousness and strong groundless fear.