[Mental disorders in a female patient with childhood sexual abuse--schizophrenia or complex PTSD]. / Zaburzenia psychiczne u pacjentki wykorzystywanej seksualnie w dziecinstwie--schizofrenia czy objawy zlozonego PTSD (CPTSD).

The paper presents the definition, synonyms of child sexual abuse and a short overview of the current knowledge about long-term effects of that kind of trauma. The case of a female patient with diagnosed schizophrenia and a history of being sexually abused in childhood who was hospitalised at The Department of Psychiatry in Lublin is described. Sexual abuse of the child is prolonged, repeated trauma, thus another probable diagnosis--Complex PTSD is discussed. The diagnosis of PTSD includes the symptoms that result when a person experiences a short-lived trauma. However, chronic trauma like child sexual abuse continue for months or years at a time and a new diagnosis called Complex PTSD describes the symptoms of long-term trauma.

[Mental disorders in a female patient with probable Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease]. / Zaburzenia psychiczne u pacjentki z prawdopodobna choroba Creutzfeldta-Jakoba.

The paper presents an overview of the current knowledge about the etiology, classification of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, abnormalities in the results of the EEG, MR and laboratory examinations in patients with this disease. The diagnostic value of the CSF examination for presence of protein 14-3-3 is underlined. The article is based on both Polish and foreign literature, describing mainly the diagnostics of CJD. The case of a female patient with dementia, mental disorders and neurological symptoms in the course of probable CJD, who was hospitalized at the Psychogeriatric Department of the Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Lublin is described.