Julian Maciaszek, PhD, MD

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Maciej Daszkiewicz, MSc
Irena Duś-Ilnicka, PhD
Anna Kołcz, PhD habil
Mateusz Kowal, PhD
Łukasz Lewandowski, PhD
Julian Maciaszek, PhD, MD
Łukasz Rypicz, PhD habil
Bartłomiej Stańczykiewicz, PhD habil
Kajetan Starzyk, MD
Michał Tkaczyszyn, PhD, MD
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Julian Maciaszek, PhD, MD

          

Mateusz Kowal, PhD

 

  Medical doctor
  Assistant

  www  Polish Platform of Medical Research

 

Dr Julian Maciaszek is a medical doctor and works as an assistant in the Department of Psychiatry at Wroclaw Medical University in Poland.

His research, academic teaching, and professional practice as a psychiatrist focus on understanding affective and psychotic disorders, the impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on mental health, the evaluation of stress among refugees in the context of allostatic load, and the impact of psychotherapy on reducing allostatic load. Additionally, he has a broad interest in neurostimulation techniques, with particular emphasis on repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation.

Main Scientific Achievements

  • 2023-2026 Project manager of a project financed by the Polish National Science Center. The project titled The concept of allostatic load as an attempt to understand the biological and psychopathological consequences of the refugee crisis aims to investigate whether biological and psychopathological responses to war stress are moderated by intrinsic psychological factors such as resilience, attachment styles, and coping strategies and to indicate neural substrates of elevated allostatic load index among refugees.
  • 2017-2020 Project manager of a project financed from the funds of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education as part of the Diamond Grant project. The project titled CYP 2D6 and CYP 1A2 polymorphism and the effectiveness and tolerance of duloxetine in the treatment of depression aimed to find predictors of duloxetine treatment efficacy among patients with major depression.
  • 2020-2022 Project manager of a project co-financed by Wroclaw Medical University as a Regional Center of Excellence in the field of medical sciences and health sciences. The project titled The role of COMT, 5-HT1A, 5-HTTLPR, BDNF, DRD2 and DRD3 polymorphisms as predictive factors of transcranial magnetic stimulation in patients with a depressive episode – RCT trial aimed to predict effectiveness of neurostimulation using repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation depending on genetic polymorphisms.

The most important scientific achievement of Julian can be considered studies on the impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on mental health. The research resulted in a series of original publications, constituting the basis for obtaining the doctor degree in 2022.

Moreover, Julian is a member of the board of the Regional Branch of the Polish Psychiatric Association conducting cyclical educational and training meetings for psychiatrists and psychologists.