title: A synopsis of original research projects published in scientific database in the Russian Federation.
abstract: The article describes the current state of scientific publications in the field of psychiatry in the Russian Federation. Issues of academic dissertations, lack of access to recent Russian language research in foreign databases, and recent reforms in the Ministry of Education and Science for overcoming these limitations are discussed in detail. Four exemplary dissertation studies published in Russian language are summarized. The first research examines the contribution of patient's verbal behavior to the reliable diagnosis of mild depression, identifying objective signs for distinguishing it from normal sadness; the mood component influenced the whole mental status and was represented in both structure and semantics of patients' speech. The second paper describes the course of panic disorder with agoraphobia, with the notable results that debut of panic disorder with full-blown panic attacks, often declines to a second accompanied with agoraphobia, which after several years gives way to limited symptom attacks and decreased agoraphobic avoidance. The third study describes the high prevalence of affective and anxiety disorders in patients with diabetes mellitus type 1 and 2, and the role of personality traits in adherence to treatment in patients with poor glucose control. The fourth project uses functional MRI for probing the features of neuronal resting-state networks in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy; the association with affective symptoms provides a model for investigating the pathophysiology of mood disorder.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Narcology, Psychotherapy and Clinical Psychology, Samara State Medical University, Nagornaya str., 78, 443078 Samara, Russian Federation. Electronic address: daria.smirnova.phd@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Daria
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Smirnova
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Addiction, Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, Moscow, Russian Federation.
authors.forename: Alexey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pavlichenko
authors.affiliation: Department of Systemic Research in Psychiatry, Moscow Research Institute of Psychiatry, Moscow, Russian Federation.
authors.forename: Olga
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Karpenko
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Narcology, Saint-Petersburg State I. Pavlov Medical University, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.
authors.forename: Liubov
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Schmeleva
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty for Advanced Medical Studies, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Medical Research University, Moscow, Russian Federation.
authors.forename: Petr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Morozov
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D011570:Psychiatry; D012426:Russia
keywords: Academic dissertations; Comorbidity of mental and somatic disorders; Language diagnostic marker; Mild depression; Neurological approach; Panic disorder; Russian Science Citation Index; Russian Society of Psychiatrists; Temporal lobe epilepsy