... with starting and restarting haloperidol in the context of negative serology of liver pathology. Case Report A 44-year old man of Southeast Asian origin with a past medical history of substance use disorder (IV methamphetamine and heroin) and schizophrenia presented to the emergency department after being found...

...Pasquale Caponnetto; Marilena Maglia; Roberta Auditore; Marta Bocchieri; Antonio Caruso; Jennifer DiPiazza; Riccardo Polosa Cognitive dysfunctions are a common clinical feature of schizophrenia and represent important indicators of outcome among patients who are affected. Therefore, a randomized...

.... © 2018 R. Myers 2018 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). Severe and Persistent Mental Illness Schizophrenia Medical Home Integrated Care Medicare Mental Illness 2018; volume 10:7819 Fully-integrated...

...Andy Trang Mental Illness 2018; volume 10:7585 Continuity of care for patients with schizophrenia in communities with limited resources Andy Trang Department of Psychiatry, UC Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, CA, USA For psychiatric patients with schizophrenia the rate of readmission...

...Candace B. Borders; Amanda Suzuki; David Safani 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS) is a risk factor for psychiatric illnesses, including schizophrenia and anxiety. Small studies have shown that several neuroleptic medications are effective in treating psychosis in this population, but are also...

...Nare Torosyan; Robert G. Bota Mental Illness 2017; volume 9:7228 Social cognition in schizophrenia Nare Torosyan, Robert G. Bota Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Social cognition describes the mental processes by which individuals perceive, process, and utilize...

...Helge H. O. Müller © 2017 H.H. O. Müller 2017 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). schizophrenia clozapine Mental Illness 2017; volume 9:7193 Effective and underprescribed: what about clozapine? Helge H. O...

...) in a sample of Nigerians with schizophrenia. This descriptive cross-sectional study involved 160 randomly selected participants with confirmed diagnosis of schizophrenia based on MINI International Neuropsychiatric Interview. Data on socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of participants were...

...Zack Cernovsky Mental Illness 2017; volume 9:7052 Quality of life in persons with schizophrenia Zack Cernovsky Department of Psychiatry, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada De-institualization had been greatly facilitated by novel antipsychotics. Our goal is now to foster an independent...

...Thammanard Charernboon; Jayanton Patumanond Impairments in social cognitions in schizophrenia are increasingly reported in the last decade but only a few studies have come from Asia. The objective of the study was to evaluated emotion perception, theory of mind and social knowledge in people...

...Osayi Igberase; Esther Okogbenin Schizophrenia is a devastating illness with a chronic and relapsing course. While Western countries may endorse, biological and psychosocial causes more commonly than supernatural causes, non-western cultures like Nigeria in contrast, tend to endorse supernatural...

...Andrew Toyin Olagunju; Dapo Adebowale Adegbaju; Richard Uwakwe Evidence-based rehabilitative treatment is constrained due to limited knowledge about disability and its related factors among individuals with schizophrenia across West Africa. This study aims to investigate the pattern of disability...

...Jeannie D. Lochhead; Michele A. Nelson; Alan L. Schneider Clozapine is often considered the gold standard for the treatment of schizophrenia. Clinical guidelines suggest a gradual titration over 2 weeks to reduce the risks of adverse events such as seizures, hypotension, agranulocytosis...

...Asami Matsunaga; Toshinori Kitamura This questionnaire survey was conducted to study the determinants of stigmatization toward schizophrenia in Japan. A total of 1003 persons living in Kumamoto Prefecture (mean age 25.5; SD=14.1) participated in this study through convenience sampling. They read...

...John E. Berg Some patients with severe mental disorders are refractory to psychotherapeutic or psychopharmacological interventions. We present a patient who at the age of 19 developed several schizophrenia - suspect symptoms. Soon inexplicable general seizures where observed. He was treated...

...Ewa Bulzacka; Jeanne Vilain; Franck Schürhoff; Alexandre Méary; Marion Leboyer; Andrei Szöke Subjective measurements of cognition have seldom been used in schizophrenia. This is mainly due to the assumption that such measurements lack sensitivity in a disorder characterized by poor insight. We...

... 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 of different neurotrophic infectious...

... questioning is notoriously prone to social desirability biases, we conducted an anonymous survey. After a strict selection process blind to results, 95 psychiatric patients were retained for the final analyses (69 participants with a presumed diagnosis of schizophrenia psychosis, 26 without psychosis). Self...

... patient treated for paranoid schizophrenia for 22 years and RS during her last 10-month clozapine treatment. Background information from the literature is also discussed. schizophrenia clozapine rabbit syndrome Mental Illness 2009; volume 1:e1 Clozapine-induced rabbit syndrome: a case report Cicek...