FORTY-FIVE YEARS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL PSYCHOLOGY AT MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW – FROM CLASSICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY TO QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH
Journal Title: Acta Neuropsychologica - Year 2010, Vol 8, Issue 3
Abstract
The Department of Medical Psychology has now been func - tioning at the Medical University of Warsaw for 45 years, teaching psychology in every department of our university; we also conduct research and supervise doctoral dissertations. We have received many individual and group awards for the construction and realization of our courses. As is typical for all medical sciences, our re search is multi-thematic. Our main area of interest is psychological analysis of various aspects of the functioning and quality of life (QOL) of pa - tients with various diseases and syndromes. Professor Krzysztof Owczarek has studied patients with epilepsy and various aspects of their QOL. He has also studied psychological methods of discrimination between epileptic seizures and psychogenic pseudoepileptic seizures. He has published numerous articles in medical journals in Poland and abroad, and a book in Polish on psychogenic pseudoepileptic seizures. Several of his articles have been recognised as the best published articles in the journal Epileptologia, and have earned him the Virtuti Medicinali award. Research on the psychological aspects of functioning in patients after myocardial infarction also has a long tradition at our department. Thanks to the initiative of Dr Dorota Włodarczyk, our department is collaborating with Norway n the realization of a grant “Psychological health-promoting factors in cardiac patients – constructing a Polish-Norwegian research project.” Among our department’s many important achievements in this area is the book Ischemic Heart Disease (in Polish).
Authors and Affiliations
Krzysztof Owczarek, Mirosława Adamus
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