Background: Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder that impairs several intellectual functions, including attention processes.  Objectives: To investigate attention deficit in a group of patients with schizophrenia.  Method: Thirty patients with schizophrenia hospitalized in three psychiatric wards in Shiraz and Isfahan and 30 normal healthy subjects matched for age, gender and years of educat...

OBJECTIVE The present study aimed to clarify dissociative symptoms in patients with schizophrenia and its association with negative and positive symptom of schizophrenia. METHODS Based on the 4(th) edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) criteria, 80 schizophrenic subjects were randomly selected from patients who referred to the clinics of psychiatry hospital...

This study determines the frequency distribution of prominent negative symptoms in a group of chronic, hospitalised schizophrenics. Thirty chronic Schizophrenic (D.S.M. III) patients were rated on the scale for Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS) and the prominent negative symptoms were correlated with age, sex and certain illness variables. Majority (80%) of patients had some or the other n...

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 ...