CURRENT ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology is one of the bigest psychiatric and neurological hospitals in Poland. It facilitates comprehensive diagnostic and treatment services of all sleep disorders. It is national reference center for narcolepsy and central hypersomnias and member of the European Narcolepsy Network and European Insomnia Network.
Areas of research interest:
sleep in patients with mental disorders
effects of antidepressants, antipsychotics and hypnotics on sleep EEG
pharmaco-EEG
alcohol and sleep
primary insomnia
narcolepsy
restless legs syndrome
circadian sleep disorders
parasomnias and epilepsy
Sleep as a biomarker for depression. Wichniak A, Wierzbicka A, Jernajczyk W. Int Rev Psychiatry. 2013 Oct;25(5):632-45.
Sleep and Antidepressant Treatment. Wichniak A, Wierzbicka A, Jernajczyk W. Curr Pharm Des. 2012 Jun 6. [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 22681161
Patients with insomnia and subthreshold depression show marked worsening of insomnia after discontinuation of sleep promoting medication. Wichniak A, Wierzbicka A, Jernajczyk W.
Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2011;35(7):1671-6.
Actigraphic monitoring of activity and rest in schizophrenic patients treated with olanzapine or risperidone. Wichniak A, Skowerska A, Chojnacka-Wójtowicz J, Tafliński T, Wierzbicka A, Jernajczyk W, Jarema M. J Psychiatr Res. 2011;45(10):1381-6.
Sleep disorderd breathing and recurrence of cerebrovascular events, case-fatality, and functional outcome in patients with ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack. Rola R, Jarosz H, Wierzbicka A, Wichniak A, Richter P, Ryglewicz D, Jernajczyk W. J Physiol Pharmacol. 2008;59 Suppl 6:615-21.
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