In the last 10 years a consensus has developed that the symptoms of psychosis may be better understood by linking the steps between the phenomenological experiences and social, psychological and neurobiological levels of explanation. Cognitive models of psychosis are an important link in this chain. They provide a psychological description of the phenomena from which hypotheses concerning causa...

‡Data are a pooled analysis of all 3 fixed-dose GEODON arms (40 mg/day, 80 mg/day, and 160 mg/day) vs placebo. †“Probability of being relapse-free” was measured by time to impending relapse, which was defined as Clinical Global Impression of Improvement (CGI-I) score of ≥6 or a score of ≥6 on PANSS items P7 (hostility) or G8 (uncooperativeness) on 2 successive days; or, discontinuation due to l...

a young patient who presented with headache followed by positive and negative symptoms of psychosis and mutism was sent for the mri of brain. mri revealed a lipoma in the quardrigeminal area. we hypothesized that the neuro-vascular encasement of structures located at the upper dorsal midbrain by the lipoma caused the symptoms. a review of the current literature of quadrigeminal lipoma cases wit...

Background and Objectives :The purpose of this study was to compare metacognitive therapy compared to positive therapy on symptoms of depression and psychological well-being.  Methods: The female patients with confirmed coronary artery disease and Addmited to the CCU ward in the first half of 2019 were included in the study. Patients were selected using t...

objective: the current study was performed to evaluate the cognitive improvements of the chronic schizophrenic patients treated with risperidone in comparison with those treated with haloperidol according to wisconsin card sorting test (wcst). methods: in a double blind clinical trial, 65 patients with a diagnosis of chronic schizophrenia were randomly allocated into two groups. they received a...

bakers are frequently exposed to various irritant chemicals during work which can induce respiratory problems. in this study, pulmonary function tests and self-reported respiratory and allergic symptoms in bakers were compared with matched control subjects. the frequency of respiratory and allergic symptoms was evaluated in a sample of 58 iranian bakers and 58 control subjects using a questionn...

Objective: The relationship between obsessive-compulsive and schizotypal symptoms has been repeatedly mentioned in various studies, but the exact pattern of this relationship is still unclear. Recently, Inference Based Approach (IBA) tries to explain this relationship through the inferential confusion (IC). This study aimed to determine the mediating role of the inferential confusion in the rel...

There is a need to better understand the interrelationships between positive and negative symptoms of recent-onset schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) co-occurring depressive symptoms. Aims were determine: (1) whether are best conceptualised as distinct from, or intrinsic to, symptoms; (2) bridging Network analysis was applied data from 198 individuals with psychotic in SSD Psychosis Recent ...