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Showing 1 to 20 of 703 for “"Schizophrenia."”.
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Schizophrenia in childhood
The diagnosis of Schizophrenia in children has historically been the source of much psychiatric controversy, especially with regard to classification, treatment and prognosis. This was further complicated by the broad category for the diagnosis of psychotic disorders in childhood in the Diagnostic …
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Kinesthetic perception and schizophrenia
It was the purpose of this study to compare normals with schizophrenic psychiatric patients as to their ability to reproduce movements perceived by kinesthetic stimulation. Kinesthetic perception, for the purpose of this study, was restricted to the reproduction of single arm-hand movements in a …
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Living with schizophrenia: A phenomenological study of people with schizophrenia living in the community.
Research question: How do you people with schizophrenia and their carers live with a diagnosis of schizophrenia? Research aim: To gain a greater understanding of the meaning and experience of schizophrenia. The objective of this phenomenological study was to explore the lived experience of …
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Management of Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia
… method of pharmacotherapy for patients with schizophrenia includes the use of antipsychotic medications. This group of medications can be subdivided into typical and atypical antipsychotics, or first and second-generation antipsychotics respectively. In the case of treatment resistance to the …
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Associative Memory Processes in Schizophrenia
Individuals with schizophrenia demonstrate cognitive deficits in a number of domains, including episodic memory: EM). Memory for both individual items and associations between items is impaired in schizophrenia, with some indication of a more severe deficit in associative memory. Furthermore, such …
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Auditory attentional deficit in schizophrenia
<p>Differences in auditory detection performance between schizophrenics and normals were examined in terms of the attentional processes involved. Each of 40 ~s (20 schizophrenics categorized along the dimensions of paranoia, premorbidity, and acuteness; and 20 hospital technical staff) were …
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Frequency specific deficits in schizophrenia
… deficits and frequency specific deficits in schizophrenia. Coherence between different lobes of the brain from task related data at different frequency bands was investigated in patients with Schizophrenia (SP) and Healthy Normal Volunteers (HNV). The task was aimed to study the neural …
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Boisen's pioneer studies with schizophrenia
… with a view to examine Boisen's studies with schizophrenia and to discuss their implications for psychiatry and religion. The inquiry concerns itself with four aspects: (1) psychiatric studies in schizophrenia, (2) Boisen's life and schizophrenic episode, (3) a critical examination of his …
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Schizophrenia in Camberwell, 1965-1984
This Thesis describes the epidemiology of schizophrenia and related disorders in the defined catchment area of Camberwell, SE London, UK, over the period 1965 to 1984. Cases were ascertained through the comprehensive Camberwell Cumulative Psychiatric Case Register. All first-contact patients with a …
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SCHIZOPHRENIA AND STIGMA: AN OUTLOOK ON THE MEDICAL, LEGAL, AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF LIVING WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA
Schizophrenia is a disease which presents many challenges. Medically, legally, and socially, afflicted individuals face obstacles that decrease their overall quality of life. Some of these are sequela of the disease and its decrease in social functioning, or symptoms of paranoia and …
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Anticholinergic Impact On Cognition In Schizophrenia
… on cognitive tests in 94 patients diagnosed with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. Cognitive impairment is a core feature of schizophrenia, and studies have shown that it is a strong predictor of functional outcomes in this population. Anticholinergic medications have been demonstrated to …
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COMT Genotype, Schizophrenia, and Dopamine Transmission
… memory deficits are found in persons with schizophrenia and their unaffected siblings. A single nucleotide polymorphism of the COMT gene results in a MET-->VAL shift at codon 158, increased enzyme thermostability, and increased enzymatic activity. The hypothesized result of this shift is …
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Teaching Mindfulness to Individuals with Schizophrenia
… training interventions for individuals with Schizophrenia disorders have been limited. These have targeted psychosis only or addressed anxiety co-occurring with schizophrenia; there has not been a mindfulness intervention tailored to particular treatable experience(s) of schizophrenia …
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Teaching Mindfulness to Individuals with Schizophrenia
… training interventions for individuals with Schizophrenia disorders have been limited. These have targeted psychosis only or addressed anxiety co-occurring with schizophrenia; there has not been a mindfulness intervention tailored to particular treatable experience(s) of schizophrenia …
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Living with Schizophrenia: A Phenomenological Investigation
… study investigated the experience of living with schizophrenia through seven participants' accounts of the way they have been perceived and treated by others, as well as the way they viewed themselves after having been identified with the diagnosis of schizophrenia. Participants were recruited …
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