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M Jarosz

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[Influence of undernourishment in patients with chronic pancreatitis on amino acid utilization by the pancreas after its stimulation with secretin and cerulein].

The influence was studied of undernourishment in patients with chronic pancreatitis on amino acid utilization by the pancreas after its hormonal stimulation. After 45 minute of intravenous infusion of secretin (1 CU/kg) and cerulein (75 ng/kg) the decrease of plasma amino acid concentration was significantly lower (p < or = 0.001) than in undernourishment not depending on pancreas dysfunction, nor in patients with chronic pancreatitis with normal nutritional status.

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[Further research into the formation of the syntonic-autistic relationship in paranoid schizophrenia].

Research was conducted on a sample of 100 patients. The diagnosis was carefully verified according to the DSM-III. The "Syntonic" Scale and the "Autism" Scale, described in a separate paper were used. A literature review was performed with special attention to the fact that surprisingly rarely are references made to syntonia in research upon schizophrenic patients. The results are presented in table 1 and Figures 1 and 2. In all of the 100 subjects both factors studied were present though to varying degrees of severity. Both factors showed evident characteristics of selectivity. The numerical data revealed a definite predominance of autism over syntony, which is a well known fact in schizophrenia, however, of significant importance is the presence of syntony as an additional factor. The correlation variable of both scales is expressed by r = -0.79, which indicates that there is a strong negative relationship. For the needs of further analysis the groups were split into smaller subgroups. Subgroup I was characterized by the predominance of autism over syntony (47 cases). In subgroup II a predominance of syntony over autism was found (33 cases). On the basis of greater confidence the subgroup III was described, which contained the cases in which neither factor was predominant (20 cases). The majority of the sample of patients ill with schizophrenia showed the ability to react syntonically. The obtained results support the view that autism and syntony are two poles of the same dimension, they also support the hypothesis which states that there is evidence to suggest that the are two basic subgroups of paranoidal schizophrenia.

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[Further research into the formation of the "vitality and adequacy of emotion-emotional blunting" relationship in paranoid schizophrenia].

A sample of 100 paranoidal schizophrenic patients were assessed. Scales of "vitality and the adequacy of emotion" and "emotional blunting" which are described in a separate paper were used. At the beginning attention was focused on the fact that several synonimous terms are used to describe the blunting of emotion (flatness of affect, blunted or inappropriate affect, presence of affect as opposed to flatness). The results indicate that in only a very few cases the intensity of both studied qualities was negligible, however in the majority of the cases it appeared that the quality of "vitality" and its opposite is present. In 62 patients the emotional blunting was moderate. Emotional vitality in these cases remained in the wide range from moderate to significant. Both factors may be considered to be additional factors on the basis of the size and type of correlation. The coefficient of both Scales is expressed by r = -0.77. The correlation between the studied proportion and the syntonic-autistic proportion is expressed by r = 0.69. The cases of emotional blunting which occurred at different levels of intensity were generally accompanied by relative vitality and adequate emotional reaction. The formation of the studied proportion and in particular the high correlation coefficient between this proportion and the syntonic-autistic proportion suggests that autistic schizophrenia and syntonic schizophrenia form two basic subgroups of paranoidal schizophrenia.

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[The notion of psychopathological proportion and diagnostic progress in schizophrenia].

The concept of psychopathological proportions which has been described on the grounds of the analysis of the selectivity and bipolarity phenomenon, facilitates perceiving and describing clinical features of schizophrenia. The proportions make one pay closer attention to important features opposing the leading features of schizophrenia, that are not always being taken into consideration. The results of the research have verified the autistic and syntonic schizophrenia hypothesis. It may be possible that the serious and numerous differences in the results of studies on schizophrenia held by various authors are partly caused by not regarding the distinction between the syntonic and the autistic form of this psychosis.

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[Investigation into the formation of proportions of "realistic thinking vs magical thinking" in paranoid schizophrenia].

Both magical thinking among healthy persons and magical and symbolic thinking in schizophrenia were discussed. The investigation covered 100 paranoid schizophrenics. They also underwent an examination in connection with the formation of the remaining 3 proportions. Both "realistic thinking and magical thinking" scales were used. An ability to think realistically was preserved, to a varying degree, in all patients, with 50% of those examined having shown an explicit or very explicit ability to follow realistic thinking. The above findings deviate from a simplified cognitive model within the discussed range. It was further confirmed that realistic thinking may coexist with magical thinking, and, in some cases, it concerns the same events. That type of disorders of the content of thinking are referred to as magical-realistic interpenetration. The results, and particularly high coefficient of negative correlation within the scales of the examined proportions, confirm the correctness of the assumption that the investigated modes of thinking form an antithetic bipolarity of proportions, aggregating antithetic values, therefore being also complementary.

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[Research into the formation of proportions of "insight vs lack of insight" in paranoid schizophrenia].

The relevant literature was reviewed, focusing on available evidence which emphasizes common occurrence of lack of insight among the sufferers of schizophrenia. The opinion has long been considered one-sided as it ignores occurrence of partial insight. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to attempt to find out to what extent the patient can afford to have insight and when he or she fails in doing so. A group of 100 paranoid schizophrenics were examined and both "insight and lack of insight" scales were applied. The results negate the hypothesis that insight does not take place in schizophrenia. A quarter of those examined displayed partial insight, with 16% of them showing pronounced insight indicating some awareness of changes in their psychic state due to "some" unidentified pathological factors. Different approaches and hypotheses were taken into consideration that would oscillate between the two extreme attitudes of insight and lack of insight. Contiguity between the examined phenomenon and that of coexistence of logically correct trains of thought with incorrect ones, as it occurs in hypomaniacal states, were indicated. An attempt to explain the so-called McEvoy's riddle was made. Final conclusion: It can be assumed that the interpenetration of the two antithetic trains of thought, where one displays partial lack of insight and the other partial insight, may be particularly characteristic of schizophrenia, more so than lack of insight.

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[Formation of fundamental psychopathological proportions in autistic and syntonic schizophrenias].

This paper recapitulates the research conducted in recent years, including the results of the first stage of research presented in 1988. The research is characterized by meticulous preparation of 8 scales which enables us to observe the formation of 4 fundamental proportions. Of vital importance for the interpretation of the results are correlations among the proportions and among scales. Explicit correlation (r = 0.69) between the syntonic-autistic proportion and that of "vitality and emotional adequacy--emotional dementia" was recorded. This observation is of great significance in isolating paranoid schizophrenia subgroups. Emotional dementia is also significant (r = 0.64) in cases characterized by profound autism. Thus, syntony is not only a quality which strongly correlates negatively with autism (r = 0.79) but above all there exists a high positive correlation between syntony and emotional vitality (r = 0.58). Not included here is a discussion on complex relationships between syntonic-autistic proportion and the one of "insight vs lack of insight". The obtained results confirm the correctness of earlier hypothesis and correlate with the results of the research on the formation of syntonic-autistic proportion. In other words, they verify a hypothesis which makes us isolate autistic and syntonic schizophrenias within paranoid schizophrenia.

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[Magical thinking in healthy people and in schizophrenia].

Different conditions of magical thinking have been analyzed. A formation of the proportion "realistic thinking - magical thinking" in paranoid schizophrenia has been discussed and the characteristic features of magical thinking in schizophrenia have been indicated.

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[Split of personality in schizophrenia in traditional interpretation and according to the concept of psychopathologic proportions].

The conventional concept of schizophrenic personality splitting maintains its significant values but needs regard for the considerable changes that have happened within psychology and psychopathology of personality. This concerns mainly the need of giving up the concept of mosaic feature or static symptom and adopting that of dimension and dynamic proportion. Accepting the base of mentioned notions, concerning mainly the described psychopathological proportions has enabled us to notice and measure the dynamic features significant for personality dissociation. This procedure has also afforded possibilities for measuring the opposed features (concentrated on the opposing poles of proportion).

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