I would like to report the use of high amount of tea (15-20 cups per day) by patients with chronic schizophrenia. In 3 years of clinical practice in psychiatry I have come across 11 patients where excessive tea consumption was one of the presenting complaints. 7 were male and 4 were female patients. Mean period of illness was 4.5 years. Family members reported that if these patients were not gi...

The method of average error was modified tor research in schizophrenia and was used in establishing both the absolute auditory threshold and the threshold of unpleasantness. The results showed chronic schizophrenic patients had a higher absolute threshold but a lower threshold for when a tone became unpleasantly loud. The results add evidence that chronic schizophrenic patients find external st...

A randomized trial of acute psychiatric care was conducted to compare home-based interventions with standard care. The setting of the study was a comprehensive urban psychiatric service in London. Sixteen of the 172 patients in the study had schizophrenia--11 in standard care (SC) and 5 in community care (CC). Care for patients with schizophrenia was, on average, twice as expensive as care for ...

Aim. The aim of the study was to compare working memory and executive function capacity in early-onset schizophrenic subjects with later-onset patients, who became ill in adulthood, in the first years of disease and also to assess the level of possible cognitive dysfunctions in the two groups of schizophrenic patients in partial remission of psychopathological symptoms. Method. 25 adolescent sc...

BACKGROUND Schizotypal personality disorder (SPD) shares social deficits and cognitive impairment with schizophrenia, but is not typically characterized by frank psychosis. Because striatal size and functional activity have both been shown to be associated with psychotic symptoms, we carried out the first study of SPD to assess the caudate and putamen for comparison with findings in schizophren...

Approximately 40%-70% of neuroleptic-resistant schizophrenic patients are nonresponders even to clozapine. Several clozapine augmentation strategies have come into clinical practice, although often without evidence-based support. This study aims to critically review all the reported case studies regarding the efficacy and safety of adjunctive agents in clozapine-resistant schizophrenic or schiz...

INTRODUCTION Substance abuse among schizophrenic patients is a growing clinical concern. Substance use disorders and their effects on the course of schizophrenia have made the identification and treatment of schizophrenic patients a high priority. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of substance use, preferred types of substances, sociodemographic characteristics and clinical feature...

Most of the relatively firm evidence on the causal significance of recent stressful life events in episodes of schizophrenia comes from a handful of retrospective case-control studies of schizophrenic patients and from comparisons of schizophrenic patients with patients suffering from affective disorders. Some important additional evidence is available from studies of the occurrence of psychoti...

There are several infectious agents in the environment that can cause persistent infections in the host. They usually cause their symptoms shortly after first infection and later persist as silent viruses and bacteria within the body. However, these chronic infections may play an important role in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia and Tourette's syndrome (TS). We investigated the distribution o...

Objectives: To examine error-related negativity (ERN) and correct response negativity (CRN) in schizophrenia in light of two previous conflicting reports, and to determine their relation to disorganization, psychomotor poverty and reality distortion. Methods: Event-related potentials were recorded from 21 schizophrenic and 21 control participants who performed a simple go/no-go task. Response-l...