objective: the purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence and possible variables on changing the diagnosis of mood disorder patients to schizophrenia.  method: this study was a retrospective and comparative analytic research that was performed in 2006 in razi psychiatric hospital. the sample consisted of all the 176 patients who were hospitalized in 2000 with the diagnosis of mood disor...

objective: psychiatric hospitalization of patients imposes heavy burdens on caregivers, but little is known about this issue in iran. the present cross-sectional study aimed to investigate the risk factors associated with psychiatric hospitalization of patients with schizophrenia who were the regular clients for the educational programs of the iranian society for supporting individuals with sch...

objective: this project aimed to study early maladaptive schemas in adults with parents afflicted with schizophrenia. methods: in a causal-comparative study, a sample of 39 adults with one schizophrenic parent as the experiment group and 40 students without schizophrenic parents as the control group were selected. both groups completed early maladaptive schema questionnaire. descriptive statist...

Psychotic disorders have been observed in association with some autoimmune disorders. Moreover, autoimmune mechanisms have been recently considered in evaluation of schizophrenia spectrum disease managements. Vitiligo is one of the autoimmune diseases, but there is no report of vitiligo association with psychosis. We report three patients with vitiligo and schizophrenia spectrum disease that ar...

AMA Casadei V, Jaracz J, Wójciak P, et al. Physical activity and negative symptoms as predictors of metabolic syndrome in patients with schizophrenia. Neuropsychiatria i Neuropsychologia/Neuropsychiatry Neuropsychology. 2023;18(1):11-18. doi:10.5114/nan.2023.128697. APA Casadei, V., Jaracz, J., Wójciak, P., Moczko, Filipiak, & Kucharska-Kowalczyk, K. (2023). Neuropsychology, 18(1), 11-18. https...

Abstract The brain potential known as mismatch negativity (MMN) is one of the most studied indices altered function in schizophrenia. This review looks at what has been learned about MMN schizophrenia over last three decades and why level interest activity this field research remains strong. A diligent consideration available evidence suggests that can serve a biomarker schizophrenia, but perha...

Background: Measure of insight into cognition self-report (MIC-SR) has been designed for the assessment cognitive deficits in schizophrenia, focusing on areas with known impairment, including memory, problem solving, and attention. Objectives: The current work strives to put concurrent validity reliability Persian version MIC-SR test. Methods: standard forward-backward method was utilized trans...

objective: deficits in the processing of facial emotions have been reported extensively in patients with schizophrenia. to explore whether restricted attention is the cause of impaired emotion processing in these patients, we examined visual attention through tracking eye movements in response to emotional and neutral face stimuli in a group of patients with schizophrenia and healthy individual...