[Correlations between some features of social networks and treatment outcome in patients with schizophrenia three years after initial hospitalization]. / Zaleznosci miedzy wlasciwosciami sieci spolecznej a wynikami leczenia chorych na schizofrenie w trzy lata od pierwszej hospitalizacji.

There were studied correlations between some features of social networks of 56 DSM-III schizophrenic patients and "specific aims of treatment": insight, satisfaction of the treatment, compliance, motivation for the treatment and "outcome of treatment" in psychopathological and social level three years from the first admission. There were used Fallow-up Chart, Bizon's Social Support Questionnaire, BPRS-LA scale and Social Assessment Scale (SAS). There were obtained statistically significant results concerning correlations between the type of support (concentrated, dispersed, and mixed) and the size of the extra-familiar network and the "specific aims" of treatment. This means that patients who have a mixed type of social support and a extended extra-familiar social network obtain better specific treatment aims as: motivation for treatment, co-operation in treatment, insight and a subjective satisfaction of treatment. There exists also significant correlation between some features of social network such as the range of network, the amount and localisation of support and the size of the extra-familiar network and the psychopathology level. The patients who get little support and those whose whole support is localised in family have higher level of negative symptoms measured with BPRS sub-scale. Patients of little range of the social network, including extra-familiar network show more positive symptoms three years after the first hospitalisation. There were found no correlations between the social network features and profession.

[Relationship between structural brain abnormalities and psychopathologic profile in patients with schizophrenia]. / Zwiazki miedzy anomaliami strukturalnymi mózgu a obrazem psychopatologicznym u chorych na schizofrenie.

Aim of this study was to determine the presence of structural brain abnormalities, dynamics of psychopathology three and seven years after the first hospitalisation and correlation between them. We examined 59 first admitted schizophrenic patients. We used computed tomography to examine structural brain abnormalities and BPRS-LA to measure the psychopathology level. CT and BPRS measures were both completed 3 years after the first admission. 7 years after the first admission the psychopathology level was measured with BPRS. We observed spaces in the brain and cortical sulci widened in 55 subjects (93%). The most commonly met structural brain pathology was a widening of the IIIrd ventricle and frontal cortex pathology. Assessment of the dynamics of psychopathology shows stability of the negative syndrome and increase of the positive syndrome and general psychopathology between the third and the seventh year of the illness. Three years after first admission, structural brain pathology in the left temporal cortex and frontal cortex correlate with the overall level of psychopathology measured with BPRS-LA, but this correlation vanishes in seventh-year catch-up. Seven years after first admission subcortical cerebral pathology, especially in the subcortical frontal area correlate significantly (p < 0.01) with a lower level of positive symptoms.

[History of medicine and military health service in doctorate's and habilitation theses written in Military Medicine Academy in Lodz-retrospective bibliography against the background of medicine and military medicine bibliographies]. / Historia medycyny i wojskowej sluzby zdrowia w pracach doktorskich i habilitacyjnych obronionych w Wojskowej Akademii Medycznej w Lodzi - bibliografia retrospektywna na tle historii bibliografii medycznych i wojskowo-medycznych.

The work introduces the subject of medicine history, military health service history and medicine bibliographies with particular attention to Polish accents. It remembers the beginnings of medicine history education in Poland in the 19th century, in the II Polish Republic and after 1945. It discusses widely the achievements of Military Medicine Academy in the range of medicine history military health service together with bibliography. It points out the necessity of dealing with this subject in didactic and scientific activity of the Academy.

[Social networks of schizophrenic patients three years after the first psychiatric hospitalization. Differences between a group treated in psychosocial program and patients treated in an individual treatment program]. / Sieci spoleczne pacjentów chorych na schizofrenie w trzy lata po pierwszej hospitalizacji. Porównanie grupy objetej programem leczenia srodowiskowego z grupa z indywidualnym programem leczenia.

Social networks of 54 DSM-III schizophrenic patients were studied. There are differences between social networks of patients who took part in the psychosocial program (n = 23) and social networks of patients treated in individual treatment program (n = 31). Patients treated in the psychosocial program receive significantly more social support from their social networks and there are significantly more new relationships in their networks than in the networks of patients treated in individual treatment program.