PURPOSE We aimed to determine which antipsychotic is most effective for the treatment of acute schizophrenia with catatonic stupor. PATIENTS AND METHODS Data were obtained from the medical records of 450 patients with the diagnosis of schizophrenia, who had received acute psychiatric inpatient treatment between January 2008 and December 2010 at our hospital. Among them, 39 patients (8.7%) met...

background: nowadays, schizophrenia is one of the most important disabling mental disorders in the world. regarding to occupational therapy as one of the most essential treatment for this disorder, the main aim of this study is to determine the effect of it on negative symptoms of schizophrenias patients. methods: this study is a clinical trials research and the samples were 84 schizophrenia pa...

Recent clinical and neuropsychological studies have shown that severe deterioration in cognitive and functional capacities is prevalent in elderly, chronically hospitalized patients with schizophrenia. Postmortem studies of tissue from patients who were clinically well characterized have found notably little neurodegenerative or other pathology to explain the dementia. In contrast, several larg...

conclusions we concluded that psychiatric patients in general and schizophrenia and bipolar cases in particular had a significantly higher relative frequency of t. gondii infection than healthy individuals of lorestan province, western iran. results out of the 170 psychiatric patients, 103 (63.5%) patients were seropositive for igg antibody and 14 (8.2%) were seropositive for igm antibody. of t...

abstract aim and background: theory of mind is the ability to attribute one’s own or others mental states which has an important role in social and behavioral performances. the purpose of the present study was compare theory of mind in patients with schizophrenia and major depression with normal individuals. methods and materials: the present research was a causal- comparative study. the subjec...

BACKGROUND This study assessed the risk of developing acute coronary syndrome requiring hospitalization in association with the use of certain antipsychotic medications in schizophrenia patients. METHODS A nationwide cohort of 31,177 inpatients with schizophrenia between the ages of 18 and 65 years whose records were enrolled in the National Health Insurance Research Database in Taiwan from 2...

Background Several nonpsychotic psychiatric disorders in childhood and adolescence can precede the onset of schizophrenia, but the etiology of this relationship remains unclear. We investigated to what extent the association between schizophrenia and psychiatric disorders in childhood is explained by correlated genetic risk factors. Methods Polygenic risk scores (PRS), reflecting an individua...

Published findings on the relationship between schizophrenia and violence have been mixed, due to differences in study design and quality. In this review, we address the issue with an emphasis on characterizing who is most likely to be violent and when. We conclude that: (1) individuals with schizophrenia are at an increased risk for violence due to specific psychotic symptoms; (2) this risk is...