DEPARTMENT NAME
Department of Adult Psychiatry

CONTACT DETAILS FOR HEAD OF DEPARTMENT
Professor Piotr Gałecki, MD PhD piotr.galecki@umed.lodz.pl
+48 42 71 55 98

Department of Adult Psychiatry
ul. Aleksandrowska 159
91-229 Lodz, Poland

TEAM MEMBERS
Professor Gałecki Piotr, MD PhD
Jasionowska Justyna, MD
Kowalczyk Małgorzata, MSc PhD
Kuśmierek Maciej, MD PHD
Łukasik Maria, MD
Mossakowska-Wójcik Joanna, MD PHD
Orzechowska Agata, MSc PhD
Professor Talarowska Monika, MSc PhD
Doctoral students at the Department of Adult Psychiatry:
Bliźniewska Katarzyna, MD
Broniarczyk-Czarniak Marta, MD
Filip Maria, MD
Helman Bartłomiej, MD
Pietrzyk-Orkisz Katarzyna, MD
Skiba Aleksandra, MSc
Zajączkowska Marlena, MD
Żuchowicz Paulina, MSc

SHORT DESCRIPTION OF RESEARCH ACTIVITY
The Department of Adult Psychiatry conducts scientific, research, teaching and medical activities as well as providing services. The Institute of Clinical Psychology, the TMS laboratory and the Institute of Judicial Decisions operate within the Department. The Department is a postgraduate education centre in the field of Psychiatry, psychiatry of children and teenagers, and Clinical Psychology. The Department has been the co-organiser of the International Congress on Forensic Psychiatry.

DEPARTMENTAL ACHIEVEMENTS: PROJECTS AND PAPERS

Research projects:
“NEW THERAPY OF PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS AND IN THE HUNTINGTON DISEASE WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO COGNITIVE DEFICITS”

“THE INFLUENCE OF A COMBINED THERAPY OF NON-STEROIDAL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS AND SEROTONIN REUPTAKE INHIBITORS ON OXIDATIVE STRESS AS WELL AS SELECTED PARAMETERS OF INFLAMMATORY PROCESSES IN RECURRENT DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS”

Publications:

1. Gałecki P, Talarowska M. Neurodevelopmental theory of depression. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry.2017May29.
2. Maes M, Galecki P, Chang YS, Berk M. A review on the oxidative and nitrosative stress (O&NS) pathways in major depression and their possible contribution to the (neuro)degenerative processes in that illness. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry.2011;35(3):676-92.

3. Gałecki P, Szemraj J, Bieńkiewicz M, Zboralski K, Gałecka E. Oxidative stress parameters after combinedfluoxetine and acetylsalicylic acid therapy in depressive patients. Hum Psychopharmacol. 2009;24(4):277-86.