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Clinical Emotion Neuroscience Lab
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Clinical Emotion Neuroscience Lab

Publications

  • Wojtczak M., & Ślaski S. (in press) Motives of abstinence versus metacognition and self-awareness emotions in people addicted to alcohol Psychiatria Polska
  • Ciwoniuk, N., Wayda-Zalewska, M., & Kucharska, K. (2023). Distorted body image and mental pain in anorexia nervosa. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(1), 718. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010718
  • Pacut, A., Wayda-Zalewska, M., Ostrowski, T., & Kucharska, K. -2022 Body image, mental resilience, spirituality, and mental health in the population of young adults. Kwartalnik Naukowy Fides Et Ratio, 4(52), 67-78. https://doi.org/10.34766/fetr.v4i52.1134
  • Wayda-Zalewska, M., Grzegorzewski, P., Kot, E., Skimina, E., Santangelo, P. S., & Kucharska, K. -2022 Emotion Dynamics and Emotion Regulation in Anorexia Nervosa: A Systematic Review of Ecological Momentary Assessment Studies. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(20), 13659 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013659
  • Wayda-Zalewska, M., Kostecka, B., & Kucharska, K. -2021 Body Image in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Systematic Review of the Emerging Empirical Literature. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 10(18), 4264. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm10184264
  • Wayda-Zalewska, M., Katarzyna Ładniak-Grońska, Kostecka, B., Walenda, A., & Kucharska, K. -2021 Shame a forgotten emotion: psychopathology, neurobiology, and therapy of shame in eating disorders. Psychiatria i Psychologia Kliniczna, 21(3), 197–203. https://doi.org/10.15557/pipk.2021.0021
  • Walenda, A., Kostecka, B., Santangelo, P. S., & Kucharska, K. -2021 Examining emotion regulation in binge-eating disorder. Borderline personality disorder emotion dysregulation, (8), 25. "https://doi.org/10.1186/s40479-021-00166-6”
  • Walenda, A., Bogusz, K., Kopera, M., Jakubczyk, A., Wojnar, M., & Kucharska, K. -2021 Emotion regulation in binge eating disorder. Regulacja emocji w zaburzeniu z napadami objadania się. Psychiatria polska, 55(6),1433–1448. https://doi.org/10.12740/PP/OnlineFirst/122212
  • Bogusz, K., Kopera, M., Jakubczyk, A., Trucco, E. M., Kucharska, K., Walenda, A., & Wojnar, M. (2021). Prevalence of alcohol use disorder among individuals who binge eat: A systematic review and meta‐analysis.  Addiction. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15155
  • Anczewska, M., Biechowska, D., Gałecki, P., Janas-Kozik, M., Koń, B., Skrzypkowska-Brancewicz, B., Śremska, A., Urbański, F., Więckowska, B., Zięba, M., & Kucharska, K. (2019). Organizational units providing psychiatric services for adults – an analysis based on the National Health Fund data for 2010–2016. Psychiatria Polska. https://doi.org/10.12740/PP/OnlineFirst/111852
  • Skrzypkowska-Brancewicz, B., Janas-Kozik, M., Anczewska, M., Kucharska, K., Biechowska, D., Zięba, M., Koń, B., & Więckowska, B. (2019). Analysis of psychiatric services provided to children and youth in 2010–2016 based on the National Health Fund data. Psychiatria Polska. https://doi.org/10.12740/PP/OnlineFirst/110030
  • Kot, E., Kucharska, K., Monteleone, A. M., & Monteleone, P.  (2020). Structural and functional brain correlates of altered taste processing in anorexia nervosa: A systematic review. European Eating Disorders Review, 28(2), 122–140. https://doi.org/10.1002/erv.2713
  • Kostecka, B., Wayda-Zalewska, M., & Kucharska, K.  (2019). A case report and a psychometric assessment of therapeutic efficacy in reducing social cognition and neurocognition deficits in a patient with acute bulimia nervosa.  Psychologia Kliniczna, 19(4), 430–434. https://doi.org/10.15557/PiPK.2019.0048
  • Kucharska, K., Kot, E., Biernacka, K., Zimowski, J., Rogoza, R., Rybakowski, F., Kostecka, B., & Bednarska-Makaruk, M. (2019). Interaction between polymorphisms of the oxytocinergic system genes and emotion perception in inpatients with anorexia nervosa.  European Eating Disorders Review, 27(5), 481–494. https://doi.org/10.1002/erv.2698
  • Grzegorzewski, P., Kulesza, M., Pluta, A., Iqbal, Z., & Kucharska, K. (2019). Assessing self-reported empathy and altruism in patients suffering from enduring borderline personality disorder. Psychiatry Research, 273, 798–807. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2018.12.109
  • Kucharska, K., Kułakowska, D., Starzomska, M., Rybakowski, F., & Biernacka, K. (2019). The improvement in neurocognitive functioning in anorexia nervosa adolescents throughout the integrative model of psychotherapy including cognitive remediation therapy. BMC Psychiatry, 19:15. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-018-1984-4
  • Tylec, A., Skałecki, M., Ziemecki, P., Brzozowska, A., Dubas-Ślemp, H., & Kucharska, K.  (2019). Assessment of cardiovascular disease risk factors in patients treated for schizophrenia.  Psychiatria Polska, 53(6), 1305–1319. https://doi.org/10.12740/PP/OnlineFirst/95123
  • Kostecka, B., Kordyńska, K., Murawiec, S., & Kucharska, K.  (2019). Distorted body image in women and men suffering from anorexia nervosa – a literature review.  Archives of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, 1, 13–21. https://doi.org/10.12740/APP/102833
  • Kordyńska, K., Kostecka, B., & Kucharska, K.  (2019). “Walk a mile in my shoes”. Mentalising ability in patients with eating disorders – literature review. Neuropsychiatry & Neuropsychology/Neuropsychiatria i Neuropsychologia, 1–2, 24–31. https://doi.org/10.5114/nan.2019.87728
  • Grzegorzewski, P., & Kucharska, K. (2018). Components of emotion dysregulation in borderline personality disorder: A review of recent research. Advances in Psychiatry and Neurology/Postępy Psychiatrii i Neurologii, 27(2), 120–134. https://doi.org/10.5114/ppn.2018.77033
  • Pluta, A., Kulesza, M., Grzegorzewski, P., & Kucharska, K. (2018). Assessing advanced theory of mind and alexithymia in patients suffering from enduring borderline personality disorder.  Psychiatry Research, 261, 436–441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2018.01.003
  • Starzomska, M., Wilkos, E., & Kucharska, K.  (2018). Modern approaches to the treatment of anorexia nervosa: “The third wave” of cognitive behavioral therapy.  Psychiatria Polska, 52(4), 651–662. https://doi.org/10.12740/PP/OnlineFirst/75338
  • Kordyńska, K., Kostecka, B., Sala, P., & Kucharska, K. (2018). Therapeutic difficulties in management of the patient with anorexia nervosa and comorbid borderline personality disorder – case study.  Archives of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, 3, 71–78. https://doi.org/10.12740/APP/94398
  • Siejko, K., Tylec, A., Dubas-Ślemp, H., Książek, P., Drop, B., Kochański, A., & Kucharska, K. (2018). The role of long term care centers in the Polish system of mental health care.  Current Problems in Psychiatry, 19(1), 30–40. https://doi.org/10.1515/cpp-2018-0004
  • Tylec, A., Dubas-Ślemp, H., Wójcicka, A., Drop, B., & Kucharska, K.  (2018). The difficulties of secondary prophylaxis of cervical cancer in women suffering from paranoid schizophrenia – a case study.  Psychiatria Polska, 52(2), 251–259. https://doi.org/10.12740/PP/69142
  • Tylec, A., Jeleniewicz, W., Mortimer, A., Bednarska-Makaruk, M., & Kucharska, K. (2017). Interaction between Val158Met catechol‐O‐methyltransferase polymorphism and social cognitive functioning in schizophrenia: Pilot study. Annals of Human Genetics, 81(6), 267–275. https://doi.org/10.1111/ahg.12209
  • Kucharska, K., Kostecka, B., Tylec, A., Bonder, E., & Wilkos, E. (2017). Binge eating disorder – etiopathogenesis, disease and treatment Advances in Psychiatry and Neurology/Postępy Psychiatrii i Neurologii, 26(3), 154–164. https://doi.org/10.5114/ppn.2017.70547
  • Kucharska, K., Jeschke, J., & Mafi, R. (2016). Intact social cognitive processes in outpatients with anorexia nervosa: A pilot study. Annals of General Psychiatry, 15:24. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12991-016-0108-0
  • Kasperek-Zimowska, B., Zimowski, J., Biernacka, K., Kucharska, K., & Rybakowski, F. (2016). Impaired social cognition processes in Asperger syndrome and anorexia nervosa: In search for endophenotypes of social cognition.  Psychiatria Polska, 50(3), 533–542. http://dx.doi.org/10.12740/PP/OnlineFirst/33485
  • Mafi, R., Naqvi, A., Jeschke, J., & Kucharska, K. (2016). Therapeutic traps in management of diabulimia in acute setting: A case report. Advances in Psychiatry and Neurology/Postępy Psychiatrii i Neurologii, 25(2), 124–128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pin.2016.04.003
  • Kucharska, K., Wilkos, E., Stefański, R., Makowicz, G., Ryglewicz, D., Sławińska, K., & Piątkowska-Janko, E.  (2016). Behavioural and neurophysiological effects of a stroke rehabilitation program on emotional processing in tuberothalamic infarct – case study. Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science, 6(1), 42–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jbbs.2016.61006
  • Charzyńska, K., Kucharska, K., & Mortimer, A. (2015). Does employment promote the process of recovery from schizophrenia? A review of the existing evidence. International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, 28, 407–418. https://doi.org/10.13075/ijomeh.1896.00341
  • Wilkos, E., Brown, T. J. B., Sławińska, K., & Kucharska, K. (2015). Social cognitive and neurocognitive deficits in inpatients with unilateral thalamic lesions–pilot study. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 11, 1031–1038. https://doi.org/10.2147/NDT.S78037
  • Mohee, K., Karthigeyan, A., Wheatcroft, S. B., & Kucharska, K. (2015). Cardiac abnormalities in anorexia nervosa inpatients – a retrospective study.  Polish Journal of Public Health, 125(3), 125–128. https://doi.org/10.1515/pjph-2015-0038
  • Kucharska, K., Wilkos, E., Stefański, R., Makowicz, G., Ryglewicz, D., Sławińska, K., & Piątkowska-Janko, E. (2015). (2015). Psychological and physiological changes in cognitive functioning in thalamic lesion throughout the rehabilitation process. Journal of Neurology & Neurophysiology, 6(5), 1–7. https://doi.org/ 10.4172/2155-9562.1000318
  • Tylec, A., Baran, T., Wojciechowska, K., Dubas-Ślemp, H., & Kucharska, K. (2014). Complications after the treatment of laryngeal cancer in a paranoid schizophrenia patient.  Acta Neuropsychologica, 13(3), 293–300.
  • Kułakowska, D., Biernacka, K., Wilkos, E., Rybakowski, F., & Kucharska-Pietura, K.  (2014). Neurocognitive and social cognitive deficits in patients with anorexia nervosa.  Psychiatria Polska, 48(3), 465–475.
  • Mohee, K., Kucharska-Pietura, K., Karthigeyan, A., & Naqvi, A. (2014). Diagnostic and treatment dilemmas of persistent chronic hypokalaemia in a patient with anorexia nervosa: A case report. Journal of Medical Case Reports, 8(1), 294. https://doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-8-294
  • Kucharska-Pietura, K., & Mortimer, A.  (2013). Can antipsychotics improve social cognition in patients with schizophrenia?  CNS Drugs, 27, 335–343. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40263-013-0047-0
  • Tylec, A., Kucharska-Pietura, K., Jeleniewicz, W., Cybulski, M., & Czernikiewicz, A. (2013). Functional polymorphism of genes inactivating biogenic amines and cognitive deficits in paranoid schizophrenia.  Psychiatria Polska, 47(2), 197–211.
  • Wilkos, E., Tylec, A., Kułakowska, D., Kucharska, K. (2013). The newest therapeutic directions in the rehabilitation of patients with mental disorders. Psychiatria Polska, 47(4), 621–634.
  • Kucharska-Pietura, K., Mortimer, A., Tylec, A., & Czernikiewicz, A. (2012). Social cognition and visual perception in schizophrenia inpatients treated with first-and second-generation antipsychotic drugs. Clinical Schizophrenia & Related Psychoses, 6(1), 14–20. https://doi.org/10.3371/CSRP.6.1.2
  • Kucharska-Pietura, K., Tylec, A., Czernikiewicz, A., & Mortimer, A.  (2012). Attentional and emotional functioning in schizophrenia patients treated with conventional and atypical antipsychotic drugs. Medical Science Monitor, 18(1):CR44-49. https://doi.org/10.12659/MSM.882202
  • Tylec, A., Kucharska-Pietura, K., Jeleniewicz, W., Czernikiewicz, A., & Stryjecka-Zimmer, M. (2010). Functional polymorphism of genes inactivating catecholamines and emotional deficits in paranoid schizophrenia.  Psychiatria Polska, 44(2), 207–219.
  • Surguladze, S. A., Elkin, A., Ecker, C., Kalidini, S., Corsico, A., … Kucharska-Pietura, K., … Phillips, M. L. (2008). Genetic variation in the serotonin transporter modulates neural system-wide response to fearful faces. Genes, Brain and Behavior, 7, 543–551. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1601-183X.2008.00390.x
  • Russell, T. A., Reynaud, E., Kucharska-Pietura, K., Ecker, C., Benson, P. J., Zelaya, F. ... Phillips, M. L. (2007). Neural responses to dynamic expressions of fear in schizophrenia. Neuropsychologia, 45, 107–123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.04.026
  • Tylec, A., Stryjecka-Zimmer, M., & Kucharska-Pietura, K. (2007). Genetic polymorphism of COMT in mental disorders. Psychiatria Polska, 41(4), 473–483.
  • Surguladze, S., Russell, T., Kucharska-Pietura, K., Travis, M. J., Giampietro, V., David, A. S., & Phillips, M. L. (2006). A reversal of the normal pattern of parahippocampal response to neutral and fearful faces is associated with reality distortion in schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry, 60, 423–431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2005.11.021
  • Kucharska-Pietura, K.  (2006). Disordered emotional processing in schizophrenia and one-sided brain damage. Progress in Brain Research, 156, 467–479. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0079-6123(06)56026-1
  • Kucharska-Pietura, K., David, A. S., Masiak, M., & Phillips, M. L.  (2005). Perception of facial and vocal affect by people with schizophrenia in early and late stages of illness. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 187(6), 523–528. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.187.6.523
  • Kucharska-Pietura, K., Nikolaou, V., Masiak, M., & Treasure, J. (2004). The recognition of emotion in the faces and voice of anorexia nervosa. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 35(1), 42–47. https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.10219
  • Kucharska-Pietura, K., & Masiak, M. (2003). The location of the deficits of emotional communication in dimensional models of schizophrenia. Psychiatria Polska, 38(5), 809–818.
  • Kucharska-Pietura, K., & David, A. S. (2003). The perception of emotional chimeric faces in patients with depression, mania and unilateral brain damage.  Psychological Medicine, 33(4), 739–745. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291702007316
  • Abel, K. M., Allin, M. P. G., Kucharska-Pietura, K., David, A., Andrew, C., Williams, S., Brammer, M. J. & Phillips, M. L.  (2003). Ketamine alters neural processing of facial emotion recognition in healthy men: An fMRI study.  Neuroreport, 14(3), 387–391. https://doi.org/10.1097/00001756-200303030-00018
  • Abel, K. M., Allin, M. P. G., Kucharska-Pietura, K., Andrew, C., Williams, S., David, A. S., & Phillips, M. L. (2003). Ketamine and fMRI BOLD signal: Distinguishing between effects mediated by change in blood flow versus change in cognitive state.  Human Brain Mapping, 18(2), 135–145. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.10064
  • Kucharska-Pietura, K., Russell, T., & Masiak, M. (2003). Perception of negative affect in schizophrenia – functional and structural changes in the amygdala: Review. Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Sklodowska. Sectio D: Medicina, 58(2), 453–458.
  • Łoza, B., Kucharska-Pietura, K., Kopacz, A., & Dębowska, G.  (2003). Factor structure of paranoid schizophrenia: A prospective study.  Psychopathology, 36(3), 132–141. https://doi.org/10.1159/000071258
  • Kucharska-Pietura, K., David, A. S., Dropko, P., & Klimkowski, M.  (2002). The perception of emotional chimeric faces in schizophrenia: Further evidence of right hemisphere dysfunction.  Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, 15(2), 72–78.
  • Kucharska-Pietura, K., & Klimkowski, M. (2002). Perception of facial affect in chronic schizophrenia and right brain damage. Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis, 62(1), 33–44.
  • Hunca-Bednarska, A. & Kucharska, K.  (2002). Emotional behavior in schizophrenia and one-sided brain damage – expression and verbalization of emotions: Cerebral hemispheric asymmetry. Part II. Psychiatria Polska, 36(3), 435–448.
  • Kucharska-Pietura, K., & Hunca-Bednarska, A. (2002). Emotional behavior in schizophrenia and one-sided brain damage: Cerebral hemispheric asymmetry. Part I. Psychiatria Polska, 36(3), 421–434.
  • Kucharska-Pietura, K., & Kopacz, G.  (2001). Disorders of emotional control in schizophrenia and unilateral brain damage. Psychiatria Polska, 35(6), 965–977.
  • Kurcharska-Pietura, K.  (2001). Perception of chimeric faces in schizophrenia and right hemispheric dysfunction.  Psychiatria Polska, 35(6), 979–989.
  • Kucharska-Pietura, K., Pietura, R., & Masiak, M. (2001). Neural correlates of emotions in psychiatric patients in the light of functional neuroimaging findings.  Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Sklodowska. Sectio D: Medicina, 56, 343–348.
  • Kucharska-Pietura, K., Klimkowski, M., & Grzywa, A.  (2000). Disorders of emotional processes in schizophrenia: Methodological aspects of research.  Psychiatria Polska, 34(2), 223–234.
  • Dębowska, G., Grzywa, A., & Kucharska-Pietura, K.  (1998). Insight in paranoid schizophrenia—its relationship to psychopathology and premorbid adjustment.  Comprehensive Psychiatry, 39(5), 255–260. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0010-440X(98)90032-3
  • Grzywa, A., Kucharska-Pietura, K., & Jasiak, E.  (1998). The influence of the treatment on changes of the family picture in graphic works of paranoid schizophrenic patients. Psychology, 35(2), 31–39.
  • Kucharska-Pietura, K., Grzywa, A., & Dębowska, G. (1998). Attitudes of Polish and British high school students towards the mentally ill and their beliefs in the causes of mental illness.  Psychiatria Polska, 32(6), 711–722.
  • 2023 Distorted body image and mental pain in anorexia nervosa. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(1), 718. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010718 <https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010718>
  • 2022 Body image, mental resilience, spirituality, and mental health in the population of young adults. Kwartalnik Naukowy Fides Et Ratio, 4(52), 67-78. https://doi.org/10.34766/fetr.v4i52.1134 <https://doi.org/10.34766/fetr.v4i52.1134>
  • 2022 Emotion Dynamics and Emotion Regulation in Anorexia Nervosa: A Systematic Review of Ecological Momentary Assessment Studies. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(20), 13659. MDPI AG. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013659 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013659>
  • 2021 Body Image in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Systematic Review of the Emerging Empirical Literature. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 10(18), 4264. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm10184264 <https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm10184264>
  • 2021 Shame a forgotten emotion: psychopathology, neurobiology, and therapy of shame in eating disorders. Psychiatria i Psychologia Kliniczna, 21(3), 197–203. https://doi.org/10.15557/pipk.2021.0021
  • 2021 Examining emotion regulation in binge-eating disorder. Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation, 8(1), 1-10.
  • 2021 Regulacja emocji w zaburzeniu z napadami objadania się. Psychiatria Polska, 55(6), 1433-1448.