DEPARTMENT NAME
Department of Geriatric Psychiatry and Psychotic Disorders

CONTACT DETAILS FOR HEAD OF DEPARTMENT
Prof. dr hab. n. med. Iwona Kłoszewska
iwona.kloszewska@umed.lodz.pl
+48 42 675 73 72

Department of Geriatric Psychiatry and Psychotic Disorders
ul. Czechosłowacka 8/10
94-012 Lodz, Poland

TEAM MEMBERS
Prof. dr hab. n. med. Iwona Kłoszewska
Dr hab. n. med. Adam Wysokiński
Dr hab. n. med. Jakub Kaźmierski
Dr n. med. Radosław Magierski
Dr n. med. Aleksander Grams

SHORT DESCRIPTION OF RESEARCH ACTIVITY
Immunological and metabolic changes in depression and schizophrenia.

Keywords:  depression, schizophrenia, inflammation, microbiome, obesity, diabetes, dyslipidemia

Biomarkers and pathogenesis of delirium after cardiac surgery.

Clinical, environmental and genetic factors predisposing to remission of first onset psychosis. The use of bifrontal electrotherapy in patients with a diagnosis of treatment-resistant schizophrenia. ADHD in adults.

Key words: Biomarkers, Delirium, C

DEPARTMENTAL ACHIEVEMENTS: PROJECTS AND PAPERS

1. Project Healthy Ageing Research Center (HARC) – completed in 2016
2. The Ministry of Science and Higher Education project “Iuventus Plus” – completed in 2014
3. National Centre of Science grant: ”The role of oxidative stress biomarkers, pro-inflammatory, neuroendocrine and genetic factors, brain metabolism and body composition evaluated with the use of DXA method in pathogenesis of delirium after cardiac surgery, their predictive value and impact on prognosis” – ongoing

Papers:

1. Lucka A, Arabska J, Fife E, Kroc L, Soltysik BK, Kloszewska I, et al. Atherogenic Indices Are Increased in ElderlyPatients with Unipolar Depression-Case-Control Analysis. Metab Syndr Relat Disord. 2017
2. Kozlowska E, Wysokinski A, Brzezinska-Blaszczyk E. Serum levels of peptide cathelicidin LL-37 in elderly patientswith depression. Psychiatry Res. 2017;255:156-60
3. Wysokinski A, Szczepocka E. Platelet parameters (PLT, MPV, P-LCR) in patients with schizophrenia, uni