Antipsychotics in Major Neurocognitive Disorders: Controversies for Reflections

Antipsychotics in Major Neurocognitive Disorders: Controversies for Reflections

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The American Cultural Identity: Philosophical Reflections on the Existing Controversies over its Nature

Do all schizophrenia patients need antipsychotic treatment continuously throughout their lifetime? A 20-year longitudinal study.

BACKGROUND The prevailing standard of care in the field involves background assumptions about the importance of prolonged use of antipsychotic medications for all schizophrenia (SZ) patients. However, do all SZ patients need antipsychotics indefinitely? Are there factors that help to identify which SZ patients can enter into prolonged periods of recovery without antipsychotics? This 20-year lon...

Multiple components of developmental dyscalculia

Unresolved controversies regarding the functional impairments at the origin of dyscalculia, including working memory, approximate number system and attention have pervaded the field of mathematical learning disabilities. These controversies are fed by the tendency to focus on a single explanatory factor. We argue that we are in need of neurocognitive frameworks involving multiple functional com...

The effects of atypical antipsychotic drugs on neurocognitive impairment in schizophrenia: a review and meta-analysis.

Cognitive deficits are a fundamental feature of the psychopathology of schizophrenia. Yet the effect of treatment on this dimension of the illness has been unclear. Atypical antipsychotic medications have been reported to reduce the neurocognitive impairment associated with schizophrenia. However, studies of the pattern and degree of cognitive improvement with these compounds have been methodol...