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...

BACKGROUND Relapse is common in schizophrenia, and seriously impacts patients' quality of life and social functioning. Many factors have been identified that may potentially increase the risk of relapse. This study was designed to investigate the relapse rate in the year following hospital discharge among Chinese patients with schizophrenia in the naturalistic condition, and to explore possible...

OBJECTIVE This study examines the clinical and resource utilization effects of switching stable outpatients with schizophrenia from a typical to an atypical antipsychotic medication. METHOD We monitored 43 schizophrenia patients from a community mental health program who tolerated switching from typical to atypical antipsychotic medications. We used the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (P...

Gender differences were studied in the lives of 122 young adults (mean age = 23.11 years) with schizophrenia or schizophrenia-related disorders who are participants in a long-term study of progressive community care. Across the first 2 years, males who required hospitalization showed a trend toward greater recidivism and spent more time in institutions than women who required hospitalization. W...

objective: although the etiology of schizophrenia is unknown, it has a significant genetic component. ‎a number of studies have indicated that neuregulin-1 (nrg1) gene may play a role in the ‎pathogenesis of schizophrenia. in this study, we examined whether the rs2439272 of nrg1 ‎is associated with schizophrenia and its negative symptoms in an iranian population.‎ method: rs2439272 was genotype...

BACKGROUND Cannabis is one of the most highly abused illicit drugs in the world. Several studies suggest a link between adolescent cannabis use and schizophrenia. An understanding of this link would have significant implications for legalization of cannabis and its medicinal value. The present study aims to determine whether familial morbid risk for schizophrenia is the crucial factor that unde...

OBJECTIVE A nationwide population-based dataset was used to explore the association between length of stay (LOS) and 30-day readmission rates for hospitalized patients with schizophrenia in Taiwan. METHODS The National Health Insurance Research Database was used for the years 2001-2003 and included a total of 29,373 patients with schizophrenia divided equally into four groups according to LOS...

Hospitalizations for varicella-zoster virus infection (n = 13,018) among active-duty Navy and Marine Corps personnel were studied retrospectively for the years 1981-1994. A large increase in hospitalization rates occurred during the 1980s, peaking in 1987 with 2025 total hospitalizations and a crude rate of 258/100,000 persons. Since that time, hospitalization rates have decreased markedly, wit...

Schizophrenia is a chronic, relapsing disease that requires more healthcare resources to manage than any other single psychiatric illness. The main cost of treatment is hospitalization as a result of the exacerbation of symptoms often caused by poor compliance. Although the costs of hospitalization and relapse have been well documented, the differential effects of various medications on healthc...