Introduction The dopamine (DA) hypothesis of schizophrenia has gained much ground in the last decade. The emphasis on DA hypothesis of schizophrenia is based on the ability of the DA releasing agent, amphetamine, to mimic the clinical picture of paranoid schizophrenia (Snyder 1972; Carlsson 1978 and Crow 1982). Catecholamine precursor L Dopa also is known to produce symptoms of schizophrenia (C...

Schizophrenia is a common psychotic disorder which affects substantial amount of the population, where paranoid variant viewed as most form disorder. This psychosis has been seen to affect both adults and adolescents; in case adolescents, it increasingly challenging diagnose with traditional means involving clinical interviews. The use electroencephalography (EEG) signals proven be an effective...

BACKGROUND Preserved insight into illness has been suggested to be predictive of outcome in patients with schizophrenia. We aimed to investigate the functional substrate underlying preserved insight in these patients. METHODS We recruited patients with paranoid schizophrenia and healthy controls matched for age and sex. Patients were grouped according to preserved or impaired insight into ill...

Schizophrenia disorder is a that causes the main symptoms, namely delusions, and hallucinations. In patients in this study, delusions emerged were of pursuit grandeur. Meanwhile, hallucinations appear are auditory such as noises, visual seeing supernatural beings. Patients also have difficulty controlling their emotions so they often get angry, say harsh things, smash things. find it difficult ...

conclusions it can be concluded that schizophrenia can have an effect on the quality of life. some items such as family care, early and on time treatment play an important role in increasing the quality of life. results the participants in this study gained the highest quality of life in the domain of physical, environmental and psychological health and social relationships. there was no signif...

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Background Paranoid schizophrenia is a mental illness that involves no observable anatomical alteration. Main characteristic affects the personality of the individual, as well as areas of his own psychology. Case Report A 33-year-old man with paranoid schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder in treatment with Haloperidol, Oxcarbazepine, Olanzapine and Seroquel is presented. Dental expl...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was an assessment of the phenomenon of depth perception in schizophrenic patients compared to healthy subjects. METHODS We conducted a comparison erroneous assessment of the concave side of the mask as convex, using the popular website presenting rotating Charlie Chaplin's mask. The study was performed in patients hospitalized at the Stanisław Kryzan Psychiatri...

Social anhedonia is a promising vulnerability marker for schizophrenia-spectrum pathology. Prior research has demonstrated that individuals with psychometrically-defined social anhedonia show a range of "schizophrenia-like" neurocognitive abnormalities. However, this research is limited in that it is based largely on the study of college students. The present article reports findings from a lon...

The study of the clinical course of methamphetamine (MAP) psychosis yields insights into the biological aspect of the relapse of the paranoid psychotic state with hallucination in schizophrenia. A series of MAP psychosis studies in Japan conducted over a period of more than four decades revealed three types of clinical courses of MAP psychosis after discontinuation of MAP: transient type, prolo...