Self inflicted injury to the eyes including self-enucleation is a rare phenomenon. The authors describe a case of bilateral self-enucleation in a patient with paranoid schizophrenia. A review of literature shows that self-enucleation is correlated with moral, religious and psychodynamic paradigms and various unconscious mechanisms have been proposed to explain this unusual behaviour.

The concept of schizotypy represents a rich and complex psychopathology construct. Furthermore, the construct implies a theoretical model that has considerable utility as an organizing framework for the study of schizophrenia, schizophrenia-related psychopathology (eg, delusional disorder, psychosis-NOS (not otherwise specified), schizotypal, and paranoid personality disorder), and putative sch...

Schizophrenia is a major psychiatric disorder characterized by a disruption in affective, cognitive and social domains, which results in compromised ability to adapt to a changing environment and to function adequately in the community. Schizophrenia is often accompanied by gross and progressive impairment in different functional areas of a person. They are mostly seen in the form of – cognitiv...

The hippocampus serves as a funnel for heavily processed sensory information that has converged at the entorhinal cortex. Lesions of the hippocampus do not alter incoming sensory or motor information but, rather, alter their integration with our baggage of emotional experiences and social values. According to Bogerts, such a lesion would be ideally situated to result in laboriously processed se...

Bogumiła Witkowska1: 1Institute of Pedagogy and Psychology, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland. Correspondence email: [email protected] Summary Aim. The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between psychological therapeutic interactions and the severity of psychopathological symptoms in patients diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia during their hospitalisa...

AIM The aim of the study was to find genetic markers which can have influence on susceptibility of paranoid schizophrenia and the treatment efficiency measured by the PANSS (Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale). We analysed the gene polymorphisms: dopamine receptor--DRD2 (Taq 1A, in egzon 8,- 141 C ins/del), dopamine transporter--DAT, kainate receptor--GRIK3, serotonine transporter--SERT, sero...

AIM The aim of this study was to answer following questions: Does the self-image of male schizophrenics differ from the image their parents have? Do parents judge their sons more negatively or more positively than they themselves do? Are opinions of the mothers and fathers different or consistent? METHODS 30 unmarried male patients with paranoid schizophrenia (diagnosis based on ICD-10) were ...