Mental and behavioural disorders (665 contents)
Schizophrenia, schizotypal [schizotypal] and delusional disorders (42 contents)
What is schizophrenia and how is it treated?
Schizophrenia is a chronic mental disorder that affects the way you think, act and perceive the world. In this article we will discuss the definition of schizophrenia, its symptoms, causes and...
Midwife support for the pregnant/obstetrician with depression: useful information
Mood disorders among pregnant and postpartum women are a common phenomenon. Depression is an illness that an increasing number of women also suffer from at conception age. The risk of depression in...
Nearby with manifestations of mental disorders - what should be worrying and where to go for help?
Mentaldisorders are, unfortunately, becoming more common and affect children, young adults and seniors alike. Just as sometimes the patient himself notices that there is something worrying going on...
Schizophrenia and life expectancy
Schizophrenia is regarded as one of the most serious mental illnesses for good reason - if untreated, it can essentially make it impossible for a patient to function normally. However, appropriate...
Positive symptoms of schizophrenia
In the course of schizophrenia there can be two types of symptoms, which are sometimes referred to as positive symptoms and negative symptoms. This division, contrary to appearances, does not take...
World Mental Health Day
world Mental Health Day is celebrated on 10 October. This year marks the 28th edition of the event initiated by the World Federation for Mental Health. The main rationale behind the day is to raise...
Why Christmas can lead to stress, lowered mood and even... depression?
Christmas is commonly associated as a blissful time spent with family, a time that provides respite. In practice, this is not always the case in the run-up to Christmas and during the festive period...
Objective tools in psychiatry - about laboratory tests
The psychiatrist tries with all available methods to create as accurate a picture as possible of the patient who comes to his office. The psychiatric examination begins with a thorough medical...
Side effects of normothymic drugs
More and more is being heard and spoken about normothymic drugs, or so-called mood stabilisers. Recent scientific studies show that more and more people (both men and women) are taking them. Many...
Psychological problems as a significant symptom of neurological diseases
Psychopathological symptoms in the general population are as high as 25%. They usually relate to anxiety or mood changes.
Psychological problems as a significant symptom of neurological diseases
Psychopathological symptoms in the general population are as high as 25%. They usually relate to anxiety or mood changes.
Psychosis from the patient's point of view
What is psychosis from the point of view of a patient who has experienced a psychotic state and chafed to death? Not everyone is aware that manic psychosis is a state of mind in which one experiences...
Pharmacological treatment of nicotine dependence in patients with schizophrenia
Nicotine is a psychoactive substance with high addictive potential both mentally and physically. Smokers account for approximately 23-35% of the general population, whereas among schizophrenic...
Modern forms of doctor-patient collaboration
One of the modern forms of mutual doctor-patient collaboration is so-called 'shared decision-making'. This type of mutual relationship has a relatively short history. It began to be written about...
Aggression in schizophrenia
The author of this article attempts to take an objective look at the incidence and causes of aggressive behaviour in people with schizophrenia and strategies for dealing with this phenomenon.
Capgras syndrome - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Capgras syndrome belongs to a group of disorders associated with the misidentification of persons (this also includes Fregolese syndrome - see further below). The disorder is named after the...
Hallucinations, pseudo-hallucinations, hallucinoids - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
In spite of the similarities in the spelling of the terms mentioned in the title and the fact that they all belong to the so-called "productive symptoms", they differ (from each other) in certain...
Neuroleptics - what is this group of drugs?
Neuroleptics are one group of drugs used in psychiatry. Another name used is 'antipsychotic drugs'.
Heart palpitations - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Panic anxiety (paroxysmal anxiety, panic attacks) is a sudden, time-delimited attack of very strong anxiety that is not triggered by any external factor.
Heart palpitations - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Panic anxiety (paroxysmal anxiety, panic attacks) is a sudden, time-delimited attack of very strong anxiety that is not triggered by any external factor.
Depersonalisation - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Depersonalisation is a condition in which there is a sense of alienation of the self. It occurs in schizophrenia, neuroses, depressive syndromes, after the use of certain psychoactive substances, in...
Schizophrenia: genes versus intelligence and memory performance?
Consequences of a certain polymorphism in the NOS1 gene: The results of a recent study indicate that the intelligence and memory performance of schizophrenia patients are dependent on differences in...
