Tag: Schizophrenia
Challenges ID’d for Homeless People With Schizoaffective Disorder
Diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder is evolving; homeless patients have frequent visits to health care services, especially emergency department
Effectiveness of Antipsychotics Dips for Women After Age 45 Years
Findings compared with both younger women and similarly aged men
Multimodal Speech-Gesture Training Promising for Schizophrenia
Improvement in quality of life during training associated with changes in neural activation in middle temporal gyrus
Rare Coding Variants May Influence Cognition in Schizophrenia
Ultrarare constrained variants associated with reduced cognition in schizophrenia, independent of premorbid IQ
Excitatory Brain Stimulation Protocols Beneficial in Schizophrenia
Noninvasive stimulation interventions over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex linked to reductions in severity of negative symptoms
Anhedonia Linked to Negative, Positive Symptoms in Schizophrenia
Three clusters detected corresponding to positive symptoms, negative symptoms and work functioning, and functional domains
Psychosis, Bipolar Disorder May Be Predictable Years Before Disease Onset
Half of those who developed psychosis and bipolar disorder in Finland had attended Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Cognition Studied in Children at Familial High Risk for Schizophrenia
Neurocognitive impairments noted in seven of 24 measures for children at familial high risk for schizophrenia versus population-based controls
Psychiatric Advance Directives Effective for Mental Disorders
Peer worker-facilitated PADs are effective for reducing compulsory hospital admissions, improving some mental health outcomes
Personal Space Larger, Less Permeable in Schizophrenia Patients
For patients with psychosis and controls, both personal space size and permeability linked to social anhedonia and withdrawal
