{"title":"Psychiatria Danubina: Where we are and where we are going.","authors":"Miro Jakovljević","doi":"10.24869/psyd.2025.127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24869/psyd.2025.127","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20760,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatria Danubina","volume":"37 2","pages":"127-131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144966395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ema Nicea Gruber, Lucija Gruber Zlatec, Sanja Martić Biočina
{"title":"Awareness and practice of using public generative AI solutions (such as ChatGPT) and social media among psychiatrists compared to other professionals: A pilot study.","authors":"Ema Nicea Gruber, Lucija Gruber Zlatec, Sanja Martić Biočina","doi":"10.24869/psyd.2025.141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24869/psyd.2025.141","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20760,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatria Danubina","volume":"37 2","pages":"141-158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144966414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Juliana Naomi Okamoto, Carla Marques de Almeida, Elaine Henna
{"title":"Bell's mania: Is this concept still valid? A case report.","authors":"Juliana Naomi Okamoto, Carla Marques de Almeida, Elaine Henna","doi":"10.24869/psyd.2025.254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24869/psyd.2025.254","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20760,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatria Danubina","volume":"37 2","pages":"254-256"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144966444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michael Weinberg, Avi Besser, Jasmin Bass, Sharon Gil
{"title":"Coping, media exposure and terror: Forgiveness, mastery, and emotional distress following exposure to intense traumatic events through the media.","authors":"Michael Weinberg, Avi Besser, Jasmin Bass, Sharon Gil","doi":"10.24869/psyd.2025.88","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24869/psyd.2025.88","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Video footage of terror attacks as distributed over social networks can cause significant emotional distress. Dealing with such stress requires attention to significant personal resources.</p><p><strong>Subjects and methods: </strong>This study examined the relationship between forgiveness and mastery with PTSD symptoms and stress among 249 participants before (T1) and after watching a video clip of a series of terror attacks that were distributed over social networks (T2).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results demonstrated that higher levels of situational forgiveness and mastery at T1 were associated with lower levels of PTSD symptoms and stress at T1. Regarding T2, only PTSD symptoms at T1 were positively associated with both PTSD and stress at T2. Stress at T1 was only positively associated with stress at T2. Theoretical and clinical implications are discussed.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Among those exposed to traumatic social-media content, it is important to acknowledge previous PTSD symptoms and stress. In addition, attention should be given to gender, situational forgiveness and mastery when coping with the emotional distress following such exposure. Thus, awareness of different trajectories of the emotional distress is recommended allowing for theoretical, practical and clinical implications.</p>","PeriodicalId":20760,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatria Danubina","volume":"37 1","pages":"88-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144294822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mental health consequences of the pandemic: An overlooked challenge.","authors":"Saravan Kumar J, Rathna Paramaswamy, Surya Vishnuram, Buvanesh Annadurai","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20760,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatria Danubina","volume":"37 1","pages":"115-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144294830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Raquel Medinas, Catarina Santos, Ana Quintão, Filipe Azevedo, Leonor Santana, Filipa Prates, Ricardo Caetano
{"title":"The history of electroconvulsive therapy: From a controversial past to a merited present and towards an essential future.","authors":"Raquel Medinas, Catarina Santos, Ana Quintão, Filipe Azevedo, Leonor Santana, Filipa Prates, Ricardo Caetano","doi":"10.24869/psyd.2025.8","DOIUrl":"10.24869/psyd.2025.8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is one of the oldest biological treatments in psychiatry. ECT appeared in Europe in the 1930s. During the past century, it underwent several advances, setbacks, and successive adaptations. Despite its stigmatizing media coverage, it maintains its usefulness in current psychiatric clinical practice. This paper aims to provide a summary of the history of ECT, its present state, and its future. It covers the long history of ECT, the requirements for informed consent, most accepted techniques, clinical indications, and required staff training. Additionally, we discuss the uncertain future of ECT in the face of new therapeutic options in modern psychiatry.</p>","PeriodicalId":20760,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatria Danubina","volume":"37 1","pages":"8-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144294836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparing the antidepressive effect of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) versus transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in the treatment of patients with depression.","authors":"Hamida Memon, Haroon Ahmed","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20760,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatria Danubina","volume":"37 1","pages":"110-111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144294820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Could allopurinol be used in the treatment of schizophrenia?","authors":"Cicek Hocaoglu","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20760,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatria Danubina","volume":"37 1","pages":"105-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144294823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}