Psychiatr Pol
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The analysis of literature and events in psychiatry in the course of past centurie show that the term mental illness even though it had played a positive role in the development of knowledge of psychic disorders and the place of psychiatry as part of clinical medicine has become an anachronic term in time. Because its content and form were never precisely defined, it began to serve as a means of hiding the lack of knowledge of the causes of mental disorders It was abused against its initial aim, e.g. used to 'label' persons whose behaviour did not fit socially accepted conventions. At times it caused a permanent exclusion of those persons. ⋯ Retaining of the term mental illness, and its derivatives menatlly ill, a mentally ill person are anchronisms in the Polish legislation, which can be a cause of serious misunderstanings and abuse. The author believes that these terms should disappear from the Polish legislation and the mental health act. They should be replaced by terms adequate for legal regulations but also be compliant with modern psychiatric terminology.
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Comparative Study
[Age and attitudes in relation to eating in girls with eating disorders and healthy girls].
The aim of the study was to compare of the D.M. Garner, M.P. Olmsted and J. Polivy Eating Disorders Inventory (EDI) results obtained by healthy lower secondary, secondary and college students versus the results obtained with their peers with eating disorders. ⋯ 1. Age is a significant factor related to eating disorders. 2. As regards their attitude in relation to eating and their own body, healthy lower secondary school students are not much different from their peers diagnosed with eating disorders. 3. Incorrect attitudes in relation to eating and their own body in girls with eating disorders increase in a significant way at secondary school and at college periods.
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Comparative Study
[Difficult asthma and gender of patients versus the presence of profound psychological trauma].
The authors examined psychiatrically a group of 97 patients suffering from severe asthma (classified according to GINA 2002). The special interest of the study was the careful analyse the time, context and content of different psychological traumas that the patients had throughout their lives. ⋯ It is highly possible, that strictly psychological and psychiatric problems affect the severity of asthma more, than it was realised before.
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Gabapentin is an anticonvulsant structurally similar to gamma - amino- butyric acid considered as the central acting GABA- analogue. It is used mostly as an antiepileptic agent. A constantly growing number of studies refer to its efficacy in the treatment of psychiatric disorders. ⋯ Adverse events were not observed and an addition of gabapentin into treatment brings improvement of the clinical condition. Complete amelioration was detected in 4 of the 6 patients. In one single year of observation panic disorder relapses were not observed even though there was a discontinuation of treatment. The presented case reports show a possibility of successful treatment with gabapentin in severe panic disorders.
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In this paper, a concept has been presented stating that the process of creativity may be connected with psychopathological features such as mood disorders, mainly bipolar, and psychosis-like thought abnormalities. Biographic studies point to a more frequent occurrence of affective disorders in creative subjects and members of their families. There is also data concerning the occurrence of schizophrenia in the families of prominent persons. ⋯ The neurotransmission system mostly connected with elevated mood and psychotic thinking is the dopaminergic system, especially its mesolimbic and cortical pathways. Both neurobiological and pharmacological evidence has been accumulated for an association of these pathways with motivational, emotional and cognitive processes, and indirectly, with the processes of creativity. In recent years, a number of interesting results has also been obtained from molecular-genetic studies about genetic determinants of creativity processes in association with bipolar mood changes and psychotic conditions.