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We report a case of a 35-year old male patient that was in treatment for chronic kidney failure for 20 years, with a personal history of unsuccessful kidney transplantation and undergoing continuous haemodialysis. He had to be treated psychiatrically for the first time because of exacerbation of psychotic symptoms. He was hospitalized twice in succ...
The existing antipsychotic therapy is based on dopamine hyperfunction and glutamate hypofunction hypotheses of schizophrenia. Adenosine receptors (ADORA) have a neuromodulatory role and can control dopaminergic and glutamatergic systems. To elucidate the effect of ADORA polymorphisms on psychopathological symptoms and adverse effects in patients wi...
Slovenia is one of the countries with the highest national suicide rates (30/100,000/year). The rate of suicide attempts is accordingly high, for both adolescents and adults. Suicidal children and adolescents from the four North-eastern regions of Slovenia are hospitalised at the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit of the General Hospital Maribor....
In 2002, a Central European psychiatric journal, "Psychiatria Danubina," published research on changes in psychiatric and psychosocial care in different European countries, with specific references to middle and middle-Eastern Europe (Hofmann, Baudis, Darovec, et al, 2002). A task force of the Danubian Psychiatric Association collected data of psyc...
Suicide and Euthanasia in Older Adults – A Transcultural Journey. Edited by D. De Leo. (Pp. 224; $24.95.) Hoegrefe & Huber Publishers: Seattle. 2001. - - Volume 33 Issue 5 - ARIJANA TURCIN, ANDREJ MARUSIC