Hojka Gregoric Kumperscak

• Assist.Prof., MD. PhD
• The Academic and Research Network of Slovenia

Objective: The purpose of the present study was to examine the prevalence of celiac disease (CD) in children and adolescents with ADHD. Method: In all, 102 participants between 4 and 18 years of age diagnosed with ADHD participated in the study (M = 12.8 years; 84 boys and 18 girls). CD was diagnosed according to the adapted guidelines of the Europ...

Chromosomal abnormalities involving 2q32q33 deletions are very rare and present with a specific phenotype. This case report describes a 37-year-old female patient with 2q32q33 microdeletion syndrome presenting with the characteristic features, but with the addition of secondary cognitive decline. Molecular karyotyping was performed on the patient a...

Background: The pathophysiology of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is controversial. There is growing evidence of altered pain perception in people engaging in NSSI. Some hypotheses have been made on addictive aspects of this behavior. Pain and addictive behavior are modulated by the opioid system, which makes the endogenous opioids one of the can...

Background: The aim of this study was to describe the features and functions of nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) diagnosed with DSM-5. This is a first study of this kind on Slovene adolescents that were treated in child-and adolescent-psychiatry outpatient and inpatient settings. More-over, it was our intention to define the level of anxiety, traumat...

While schizophrenia is a very rare disorder in childhood, it becomes increasingly common during adolescence and peaks in early adulthood, what is a result of rarer prevalence and diagnostic problems in childhood. There is incising evidence associating psychotic disorders with cannabis use. Many studies have confirmed the association between functio...

Causes of aggressive behaviour in children and adolescents are manifold with exogenous and endogenous factors such as personality traits, temperament, family, socio-cultural, economic and financial factors closely intertwined. Aggressive behaviour, however, can also be associated with mental disorders and this is the topic discussed by the present...

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....

Metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) is a metabolic disease that has recently been investigated as a model for the study of psychosis. We report on two sisters with adult-type MLD who developed psychiatric symptomatology, but differed in their expression of psychotic and depressive symptoms. Association studies have indicated that polymorphisms in ge...

The adult type of metachromatic leukodystrophy can manifest itself as motor or as psycho-cognitive form, the latter is very similar to schizophrenia. We report on two sisters with adult metachromatic leukodystrophy who display symptoms of both forms. Presented are genotype analyses and 4-year follow-up data regarding clinical manifestations as well...

We describe the cases of 2 sisters with adult metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD). Whereas one sister presented with disorganized schizophrenia-like symptoms as the initial manifestation of MLD, the other remained symptom free except for a 4-week period of postpartum depression. In both patients, there was some residual activity of leukocyte arylsul...

Background. Classical antipsychotics - neurolep- tics are one of the most frequently prescribed psychotropic drugs in child psychiatry. Atypical antipsychotics are used for the same indications - psychotic (schizophrenia) as well as un- psychotic disorders (pervasive developmental disorders, mood disorders, conduct disorders and tics disorders). It...