Introduction: Schizophrenia is a complex mental disorder that affects an individual's thoughts, perceptions, and behaviors. Therapeutic communication in schizophrenic patients refers to the approach used by health professionals or therapists interact with aim of assisting them recovery improving their quality life. This study aimed explore forms therapeutic could be improve improvements schizop...

Introduction Schizophrenia is associated with harmful health effects such as oxidative stress from heavy metal exposure. We considered the relationship between genes and metals in association then investigated serum α- klotho copper cadmium exposure among schizophrenia patients western India. Objectives To Methods 100 individuals participated out of which 50 were diagnosed schizophrenia, severi...

Toxoplasma metabolism effect can rise the dopamine production which aggravate simptoms of schizophrenia. Some research reports that patients diagnosed with schizophrenia positive IgG need longer duration treatment and may relapse. This study was conducted by cross sectional method on 51 first episode schizophrenia, including acute temporary psychotic disorder, in Tampan Mental Hospital – Pekanb...

evidence is emerging for the association of polymorphisms in prodh gene and increased risk of schizophrenia. in this project, peripheral blood sampling was obtained from 175 schizophrenia patients that their diseases were confirmed by psychiatrists. 185 healthy individuals were considered as control group. the related tests were administered on the basis of pcr-rflp. in the continuation, statis...

background: nowadays, schizophrenia is one of the most important disabling mental disorders in the world. regarding to occupational therapy as one of the most essential treatment for this disorder, the main aim of this study is to determine the effect of it on negative symptoms of schizophrenias patients. methods: this study is a clinical trials research and the samples were 84 schizophrenia pa...

Schizophrenia is a complex disorder with polygenic inheritance. The MTHFR gene (OMIM: 607093) plays an important role in the folate metabolism. It has been suggested that C677T (rs1801133) and A1298C (rs1801131) genetic polymorphisms in the MTHFR gene lead to the decreased activity of the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase enzyme which may have significant effect on developing schizophrenia. W...

Introduction: This study aims to compare the positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia in patients who had psychotic symptoms more than one month after discontinuation of methamphetamine abuse. These factors were analyzed by the PANSS (Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale) questionnaire. Materials and Methods: 60 participants were selected from patients referred to Iran Psychiatric Hospi...

Abstract Drug trials for negative symptoms in schizophrenia select patients based on the severity and stability of symptoms, using criteria that are not suitable acute exacerbation schizophrenia. Here we present a method to prognostically enrich subjects having predefined factor structure PANSS apply it measurement specifically A vector 1335 elements between- within-item variances, covariances,...