A forced-choice auditory signal-detection method was used to test the hypothesis that, compared to acute paranoid schizophrenics, chronic nonparanoid schizophrenics would show a restricted range of sensitivity to environmental cues. Ability to detect the presence of an auditory cue, while concurrently tracking a ! visual stimulus, was measured under two conditions, auditory monitoring being giv...

Logical structure of a sentence as a tool for the assessment of thought disorder (Ancient Indian View) It is now well recognised that inconsistancy in the spoken or written language of schizophrenic subjects is due to their false logic behind the structural aspect of sentence. The defect in the schizophrenic language is in the output rather than in the input/ That is, schizophrenics can perceiv...

genetic studies were carried out on a total of 196 psychiatric patients, hospitalized in sorkhe hesar, roozbeh, cherazi and chaharom aban hospitals. out of all the patients studied, 74 were schizophrenic, 30 manic-depressive, 47 depressive (neurotic), 12, hysteric, 9 epileptic and the remainder had different psychiatric diseases and conditions such as: anxiety and phobia, scrupulousness mental ...

aim and background: schizophrenia is a chronic psychiatric disorder. the positive and negative symptoms are not only important in the prognosis of the disease but also affect the quality of life among the patients. therefore, the present survey aimed to determine the relationship between positive and negative symptoms and quality of life among schizophrenic patients in sina hospital in juneqan....

introduction: this study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of exercise and token‑behavior therapy on the negative symptoms of schizophrenic patients. objective: comparison of the effectiveness of exercise and token‑behavior therapy on the negative symptoms of schizophrenic patients. methods: this research was a randomized controlled clinical trial that was done on 45 schizophrenic patients, h...

recently, extensive efforts have been made to understand the rate of energy expenditure and the weight gain associated with atypical antipsychotic treatment, including identification of markers of obesity risk. in recent years, leptin, an adipocyte hormone, has gained significant interest in psychiatric disorders. s100b has been considered as a surrogate marker for astrocyte-specific damage in ...

objective: the aim of present research was to compare the quality of life in caregivers of acute and chronic schizophrenic patients. methods: considering the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 30 participants were selected through purposive sampling method among the caregivers of acute and chronic schizophrenic patients. the sample answered to who quality of life (whoqol-100) and demographic que...

objective: educating families and caregivers of schizophrenic patients on controlling and managing the disorder, has found particular importance in clinical psychology. the present study aims to examine the effect of psychoeducational interventions on illness management in families of schizophrenic patients. methods: the present study is a quasi-experimental research with pretest-posttest desig...

The role of Complement factors in the pathogenesis of psychiatric disorders is enormous, but the data on levels and functions of complement factors in patients with schizophrenia are scanty and conflicting. To address this issue, levels of Complement regulators (C1 inhibitor and C3 activator) and complement factors (C1q, C3c, C4 and C5) were determined in the serum of newly diagnosed drug free ...