Abstract Background Schizophrenia is a complex mental illness with significant sex differences. Cognitive impairment common in patients schizophrenia, even remission. This study was designed to examine the differences relationship between cognitive and clinical correlations first-episode drug-naïve (FEDN) schizophrenia. Methods 93 FEDN (male/female = 45/48) 160 controls 74/86) were enrolled com...

schizophrenia is a complex disorder with polygenic inheritance. the mthfr gene (omim: 607093) plays an important role in the folate metabolism. it has been suggested that c677t (rs1801133) and a1298c (rs1801131) genetic polymorphisms in the mthfr gene lead to the decreased activity of the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase enzyme which may have significant effect on developing schizophrenia. w...

schizophrenia is a chronic and often debilitating illness which affects about 1% of the world population. some reagents have been used to simulate schizophrenic disorders in laboratory animals, such as amphetamine and ketamine. previous studies have suggested that reactive oxygen species (ros) production, reduced levels of atp, mitochondrial dysfunction and apoptosis are involved in the pathoph...

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...