Clinical and epidemiological research laboratory

Staff:

Konstantin E. Runets: researcher. The scope of research activities: suicidology, clinical psychiatry, medical psychology.

Viktoriya N. Shadenko: researcher. The scope of research activities: environmental psychiatry.

The laboratory was founded in 2009 and is the subdivision of the research department of the Republican Research and Practice Mental Health Center.

The practicing psychiatrists and addiction psychologists participate in the research activities carried out at the laboratory.

Our Activities:

Key research activities and developments:

• Clinical psychiatry
• Clinical addiction medicine (drug addiction)
• Suicidology
• Mental rehabilitation, including neurocognetive rehabilitation

Main achievements:

• The method for the assessment of the results of treatment for opioid dependence in HIV-positive patients;
• The method for the assessment of suicide risks in the patients with mood and schizophrenia spectrum disorders;
• The method for the assessment of risks for repeated suicide attempts in the patients with non-psychotic mental disorders;
• The method for the assessment of the social and economic loss caused by suicides;
• The method of neurocognitive rehabilitation of schizophrenia patients;
• The procedure for the diagnostics of diffuse organic brain damage in case of neurosis-like disorders;
• The procedure for the diagnosis of the epileptic activity;
• The procedure for the provision of medical and psychological care to the patients of 15-24 years of age during the early post-suicidal period;
• The method for the diagnostics of the level of maladaptation of intravenous drug users with HIV infections;
• The assessment of the current epidemic process for HIV among intravenous drug users and the population of the Republic of Belarus and possible prognosis for the epidemic situation in the next years;
• The method for the assessment of treatment efficacy for intravenous drug users;
• The short-term integrative psychotherapy in psychological rehabilitation of the patients with thyroid cancer.