A review of literature on the neurodevelopmental origins of schizophemia is presented, with particular attention to neurodevelopmental processes in late-onset schizophemia. Definitions of the term "neurodevelopmental" as used in schizophernia literature are first provided. Next, evidence for the developmental origins of the neuropathology in schizophemia is reviewed. This evidence includes stud...

A male patient, 44 years old, with schizophrenia which started at the age of 18. At his last follow-up visit, laboratory tests and brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were performed, revealing the presence of a sellar arachnoidocele. To our knowledge, there is only one similar case report of a set of male monozygotic triplets with schizophrenia and empty sella syndrome. High-resolution chrom...

ôbjective: recently, quality of life is a concern of health in psychiatry. schizophrenia is a disorder that has the most regressive effects in societies’ and patients’ behavioural, occupational and psychiatric aspects. the main purpose of this study was to evaluate the quality of life and global function of schizophrenia patients. methods: â hundred schizophrenia patients (with dsm-ïv-tr) who h...

this article investigates father's role in child and adolescent psychopathology. the role of mother has been studied extensively, but the father's role in child psychopathology has been studied much less and is limited to what has been done in the past few decades. this article reviews some of the studies regarding father's role in child and adolescent psychopathology, namely att...