The validation of questionnaires intended to identify the position of a subject along a normal/schizotypal/schizophrenic continuum has always been problematic. Schizophrenic patients are not good at completing questionnaire, and validation has to depend on the identification of "at risk" groups. Watt Grubb & Elenmeyer-Kimling (1982) found that the adolescent offspring of schizophrenics show the...

The National Institute of Mental Health Diagnostic Interview Schedule (NIMH-DIS) was administered by trained lay interviewers to a sample of 82 outpatients with clinical diagnoses of DSM-III schizophrenic disorder. Of these subjects, 77 percent were also diagnosed as suffering from DSM-III schizophrenic disorder according to the structured interview (NIMH-DIS) administered by a lay interviewer....

Suicide rates among schizophrenic individuals are disturbingly high. At present, suicide is the number one cause of premature death among schizophrenics, with 10 to 13 percent killing themselves. Recent studies place the risk of suicide for persons with schizophrenia at a level comparable to that for persons with affective disorder. Depression, especially the symptom of self-reported or perceiv...

A group of schizophrenic patients were compared with normal Ss on an eyelid-conditioning task. All Ss received SO trials to either a light or a tone CS and the UCS was an air puff to the eye. The principal findings were as follows: (a) the number of conditioned responses was shown to be related to level of skin potential in both normal and schizophrenic Ss, (b) the schizophrenic group gave more...

Evidence from computerized tomography (CT) suggests that schizophrenic patients may have smaller brains than normal subjects. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which produces more clearly defined images than CT, was used to measure T1 and brain size of 24 schizophrenic and 24 normal subjects matched for age and sex but not for education. Two transverse images were obtained: slice 1 at the foram...

Background: Schizophrenia is a chronic disorder with positive and negative symptoms, and insight is involved in its prognosis. Illness management is considered a skill and strategy for patients with some mental disorders. Objectives: We aimed to investigate the illness management effectiveness on the positive and negative symptoms and insight in schizophrenic patients. Materials & Methods:...

introduction: comorbid obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) has been reported among patients with schizophrenia in other countries. but, the literature is not well-documented on this issue in iran (persia). the present study aimed to investigate the prevalence and severity of ocd and some of its related factors in a group of patients with schizophrenia in iran.  methods: this is a cross-sectiona...

objectives: one of the principle of mental health programs is burden and coping of caregivers of chronically mental disorders patients. in this regard, the aim of present study was to measure the amount of burden and relationship between burden and their coping strategies of caregivers. methods: one hundred of main caregivers of patients (50 schizophrenic patients, 50 bipolar patients) from bot...