Biomedical subjects

J Barkić

Publications and source records attributed to J Barkić.

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PubMed1998

Schizophrenic disorder and social functioning.

Social functioning is assessed according to 84 questioned subjects with schizophrenic disorder and their 84 key figures. Schizophrenic subjects showed significant dysfunction in all reviewed areas of behaviour and social roles. Key figures of all schizophrenic subjects most often showed a positive attitude in regard to the future of the schizophrenic members of their family. In relation to social functioning of the schizophrenic subject and the attitude of family key figures there is a statistically significant difference as well as a relationship. Results of assessment confirmed the impact of family life on social functioning of the schizophrenic patient and stresses the importance of active family support in rehabilitation programs.

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PubMed1998

A current psychodynamic understanding of panic disorder.

While there has been burgeoning interest in the psychiatric literature about the phenomenology and biology of panic disorder, there is little new information about the psychodynamics of this condition. The reintroduction of a psychodynamic perspective could be useful in guiding research strategies to identify traits which predispose to panic and in designing treatments to address such traits. A psychodynamic model hypothesizes a relationship between current psychological functioning, early experiences, and ongoing psychological traits. Recent published reports about the nature of underlying psychodynamics and psychological characteristics of panic disorder are discussed.

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PubMed1998

Homicides in war and peace in Croatia.

This work shows the interdisciplinary investigation of homicides in the Osijek area during the war and prewar periods. Similarities between the prewar and wartime perpetrators are related to social-demographic characteristics. Nevertheless, significant differences are found in the homicidal method of selection among victims and participation of victims involved. The major contributing factors in homicide genesis were acute alcohol intoxication and personality disorder among perpetrators. Besides these factors, the war stressors and access to firearms were significant factors during the war homicides. Prevention efforts should be directed toward consequential measures and further investigation suggests that the emphasis must be put on victimological aspects of the homicide problem. This work is a review of an interdisciplinary investigation of prewar and war homicides in the city of Osijek district. It provides confirmation of how the number of war homicides relate to the prewar number.

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PubMed1990

[Maprotiline and the heart rate].

The increased heart rate is a frequent, seldom clinically significant side-effect of antidepressants. There are different opinions about the Maprotiline influence on the heart rate, either about its very existence or the pathophysiological mechanism of its side-effect. The aim of this study was to test the Maprotiline influence on the heart rate of depressed patients and to compare the results with the results of other studies. The study was carried out in a group of 21 patients with a depressive involutional syndrome treated by fixed daily doses of 150 mg of Maprotiline. The heart rate was estimated in a small sample of examinees using the method of paired observations, as a part of the orthostatic cardiovascular tolerance testing by Schellong's method; this was done before the therapy and twice a week during four week of the application of Maprotiline. The increase in the heart rate in the basal reclining position was noticed in 20 patients. The average value was 16 beats per minute. The increase of the heart rate was not noticed immediately after the application of the first doses but after the latency of 8 days on average. While increasing in the basal reclining position, the orthostatic deviation of the heart rate did not significantly change during the therapy. At the end of the study the orthostatic deviation even showed a negative sign. The reclining of the patients at the end of Schellong's test discovered a frequent occurrence of the prolonged blood pressure return from higher to normal values. The results obtained confirm the thesis that the increased heart rate in the therapy with Maprotiline is due to its noradrenergic activity, in other words, to its ability to block the "reuptake" of noradrenalin in the synaptic cleft. The delay of the heart rate increase in the basal reclining position, a more frequent prolonged blood pressure return in the further phase of the study, and the therapeutic response delay in the treatment of depression are explained by the authors by the same mechanism: by the most probable existence of the pathological changes in the synapses.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

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