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Children’s and Adolescents’ Mental Disorders Scientific Research Unit

Children’s and Adolescents’ Mental Disorders Scientific Research Unit

The Children’s and Adolescents’ Psychiatry and Medical and Social Rehabilitation Unit was inaugurated in 1994. Over the years of the Institute’s history, the name of the unit was repeatedly changed and reorganized.

Finally, the Children’s and Adolescents’ Mental Disorders Unit was set up in 2014.

Unit’s main responsibilities:

  • To carry out scientific research on child and adolescent psychiatry, medical and social problems of children and adolescents with special needs due to mental and behavioral disorders, psychopharmacotherapy, to plan and coordinate scientific research in these areas.
  • To develop and implement highly efficient medical technologies and methods of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders of children and adolescents.
  • To study, analyze, and develop recommendations for applying international expertise in treating mental disorders of children and adolescents in Ukraine.
  • To substantiate and improve organizational forms of psychiatric care, rehabilitation, and social protection of children and adolescents with mental diseases.
  • To develop epidemiology, etiology, pathogenesis aspects, as well as social effects of mental diseases of children and adolescents.
  • To train research and academic staff of the highest qualification: candidates and doctors of sciences.
  • To provide advisory, organizational, and methodical support to health care institutions based on clinical facilities of the Unit.
  • To provide high-quality medical services to children and adolescents, to take part in conducting psychological, medical, pedagogical, forensic, and psychiatric examinations.
  • To organize and participate in regional, national, international scientific, and practical conferences, meetings, and symposia on social psychiatry and psychopharmacotherapy topics.
  • To organize and implement educational and pedagogical activities to raise the qualifications of children’s psychiatrists in the field of medical and social problems of the therapy of mental disorders of children and adolescents.

Scientific and Research Potential:

No. Name Scientific Degree Academic Title Position and Contact info
1. Igor MARTSENKOVSKY Candidate of Sciences in Medicine Senior Research Associate Head of Unit

Email: igor.martsenkovsky@cmhmda.org.ua

2. Inna MARTSENKOVSKA Candidate of Sciences in Medicine Leading Research Associate

Email: inna.martsenkovska@cmhmda.org.ua

3. Tetiana SKRYPNYK Research Associate

Email: child.psychiatry@cmhmda.org.ua

4. Ganna MAKARENKO Junior Research Associate

Email: child.psychiatry@cmhmda.org.ua

5. Olesia VASHCHENKO Junior Research Associate

Email: child.psychiatry@cmhmda.org.ua

Контакти:

Contacts:

Igor Martsenkovsky – Head of Unit, email: child.psychiatry@cmhmda.org.ua

Publications:

Monographs:

  • Марценковський І.А. Депресії у дитячому та підлітковому віці [глава колективної монографії] Нециркулярні депресії: монографія / О.К. Напреєнко, К.М. Логановський, О.Г. Сиропятов; За ред. проф. О.К. Напреєнка. – К.:Софія –А, 2013. – 624 с.  – С.565 – 599
  • Martsenkovsky Igor, Butenko Lily. Probleme der psychiscen Adaption der Kinder von Remigranten in die Ukraine // Kinder zwischen den Kulturen: Migration, Integration und seelische Gesundheit[Kapitel der Sammelmonographie] / Herausgegeben von Reiner Frank. – München: Hans Marseile Verlag GmbH, 2009. – P. 115 – 124.
  • Martsenkovsky Igor,  Seleznev Alexandre. Nonconventional methods of treatment in narcology: The methodical  guidelines for psychiatrists-experts in narcology [chapitre de la monographie collective] / Under the editorship of A.G.Seleznev. − Moscow: Medical news agency of National fund on struggle against an alcoholism, 1998. − 208 p.
  • Martsenkovsky Igor,  Seleznev Alexandre. Technologies non-medicamenteuses dans la narcologie. − Zone Franche de Zarzis, Tunisie: l’Academie des Sciences de l’Afrique du Nord, 1998. − 168 S.
  • Чуприков А.П., Марценковский И.А. Алкоголизм и латеральная уязвимость мозга. − Киев: Акмис, 1995.− 168 с.

Methodological manuals:

  • Депрессии: Практикум врача / Под ред. И.А. Марценковского. –  К:ООО Доктор – Медиа – Групп, 2017. – 108 с.
  • Очерки детской психиатрии: учебное пособие для специалистов в области охраны психического здоровья детей / Под ред.главного внештатного специалиста  МЗ Украины по специальности «детская психиатрия» И.А. Марценковского // НейроNews . – 2016. – 236 c.
  • Очерки детской психиатрии. Аутизм: учебное пособие для специалистов в области охраны психического здоровья детей / Под ред. И.А. Марценковского // НейроNews. – 2014. – 280 c.
  • Лекции по психиатрии для врачей общей практики и семейных врачей / Под ред. И.А. Марценковского// Справочник врача: Психиатр. – К.:ООО Библиотека «Здоровье Украины», 2013. – 516 с.
  • Очерки детской психиатрии: учебное пособие для специалистов в области охраны психического здоровья детей./  Под ред. С. Табачникова и В. Фримонт // Нейро News – 2012. – 346 с.
  • Kazakova S.E., Linyov O.M., Martsenkovsky I.A. Psychiatry: Manual edited by prof S.E.Kazakova. – Луганськ: Віртуальна реальність, 2010. – 226 с.
  • Чуприков А.П., Марценковский И.А., Линев А.Н. Латеральная терапия. − Киев: Здоровье, 1994 − 176 с.

Articles:

  • Some new approaches for the prevention of schizophrenia spectrum disorders in patients exposed to exogenous stressors // Psychosomatic Medicine and General Practice, 2017. –  V.2. –  N3. – DOI.
  • Mental Health Services for Children and Adolescents in Ukraine: The existing Problems and Direction of Reforms // Archives of Psychiatry, 2015. – V. 21. – № 1 (80). – pages 95 – 100.
  • Легкие когнитивные нарушения (лекция для врачей общей практики) // Український медичний часопис online, 2015. –  №  3 (107) . – V/VI. –  С. 45 – 53. /  електронна публікація www.umj.com.ua/
  • Эпилепсия и коморбидные расстройства психики и поведения // Український медичний часопис online, 2015. –  №  4 (108) . – VII/VIII. –  С. 43 – 53. /  електронна публікація www.umj.com.ua
  • Противоэпилептические препараты и другие способы лечения эпилепсий у детей з расстройствами спектра аутизма // Украинский вестник психоневрологии., 2014 – Т.22. – № 3(80) . – С.121 – 126.
  • Диагностика и  лечение эпилепсий у детей с расстройствами спектра аутизма // Архив психиатрии: научно-практический журнал, 2014. – V.20. – № 1 (76). – pages 77 – 81.
  • Common variant at 16p11.2 conferring risk of psychosis // Molecular Psychiatry: Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2012. – P. 1–7 (Molecular Psychiatry advance online publication, 20 November 2012).

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