the majority of the long stay psychiatric patients who are in need of rehabilitation suffer from schizophrenia. most of them enter the old age with this illness, and besides the consequences of schizophrenia, they are facing the deprivation and misery due to the old age. in contrast to the previous decades in which there was no effective treatment for schizophrenia, today with the immediate dia...

This study focuses on a group of patients with chronic schizophrenia who have a more severe form of the disorder, as indicated by socio-functional decline, treatment resistance, and recurrent hospitalisation. Previous research has suggested that the pattern and severity of cognitive deficits in people with severe chronic schizophrenia is similar to that observed in behavioural variant frontotem...

Background: Alcohol dependence and Schizophrenia are two major psychiatric illnesses posing considerable burden on the families caregivers. dependence, like Schizophrenia, tends to run a chronic erratic course causing significant burn out families.
 Aims Objectives: 1. To describe Socio-demographic characteristics of dependent patients with Schizophrenia. 2. compare family in Schizophrenia...

background: schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder that impairs several intellectual functions, including attention processes.   objectives: to investigate attention deficit in a group of patients with schizophrenia.   method: thirty patients with schizophrenia hospitalized in three psychiatric wards in shiraz and isfahan and 30 normal healthy subjects matched for age, gender and years of educ...

The Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Group Therapy on Symptoms Depression and Anxiety in Women with Chronic Schizophrenia Admitted to Hejazi Hospital Mashhad

patients and methods the study sample included 50 patients with schizophrenia in tuba rehabilitation center in ardabil selected by available sampling method. healthy group participants were selected through cloning by age, gender and marital status of the patient group. the data were collected by the questionnaire of holmes-rahe scale and cohen et al. data were analyzed by multivariate anova (m...

background: the negative symptoms of schizophrenia remain a major clinical challenge. nortriptyline is a serotonin and noradrenalin reuptake inhibitor and belongs to secondary amine tricycles. the aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of nortriptyline on the negative symptoms of schizophrenia.   methods: this study is a six-week randomized placebo-control trial of nortriptyline or placebo...

Background: The negative symptoms of schizophrenia remain a major clinical challenge. Nortriptyline is a serotonin and noradrenalin reuptake inhibitor and belongs to secondary amine tricycles. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of nortriptyline on the negative symptoms of schizophrenia. Methods: This study is a six-week randomized placebo-control trial of nortriptyline or placebo a...

BACKGROUND It has been proposed that the hippocampus is a potential site for a neurodevelopmental lesion in schizophrenia. While smaller hippocampal volumes have been described in chronic schizophrenia, there have been few magnetic resonance imaging studies in first-episode psychosis. Furthermore, no studies have examined the specificity of this finding to first-episode schizophrenia, compared ...