Immunoglobulins and Psychopathology in Schizophrenia

Insight and Psychopathology in Schizophrenia

Among a group of patients with schizophrenia, severity of psychopathology was significantly correlated with dimensional measures of awareness of the abnormal experiences whereas a similar relationship with global measures of insight could not be demonstrated. The awareness of the abnormal nature of individual items of psychopathology does not necessarily overlap with insight as measured by awar...

Psychopathology in never-treated schizophrenia.

The effect of drug treatment and its adverse effects confound studies on symptoms and associated factors in schizophrenia. Knowledge of psychopathology in the untreated state would identify the natural state of the illness and is relevant to understand pathology underlying the illness. We report here symptoms of schizophrenia as measured by Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale in 143 patients w...

Psychopathology of Schizophrenia

Insight, Psychopathology & Schizophrenia

25 inpatients with schizophrenia were examined to explore the relationship between insight and psychopathology and illness severity over a four-week period. The average degree of insight improved irrespective of the type of recovery. There was no consistent relationship between the changes in insight and changes in psychopathology. The severity of mental illness and awareness of mental disorder...

Insight and psychopathology in never-treated schizophrenia.

Insight is a feature of schizophrenia related to psychopathology, which could be modified by treatment. The real relationship will be more evident in the never-treated state. This study compared insight and its relationship to psychopathology in 143 never-treated patients with chronic schizophrenia with 183 treated patients. The treated patients had not received any structured intervention for ...