We constructed a novel design integrating the administration of clinical self-assessment scale with simultaneous acquisition functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), aiming at cross-validation between psychopathology evaluation and neuroimaging techniques. hypothesized that areas demonstrating differential activation in two groups patients (the first group exhibiting paranoid delusions con...

Peripheral edema is observed as an adverse effect of the usage of antipsychotics in the literature. This case report describes a 36-year-old female patient with the diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia who presented with pretibial edema following initiation of long-acting injectable paliperidone palmitate. Pretibial edema developed within the second week of treatment and completely disappeared a...

We report the case of a young man with a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia and multiple drug abuse who died in hospital following a period of prolonged physical restraint. The literature is reviewed, possible factors contributing to death discussed and measures which may reduce the incidence of such deaths in the future highlighted.

A 23-year-old, white male with history of paranoid schizophrenia developed a withdrawal-emergent dyskinesia during a dose reduction of risperidone. The implications of this with regard to future risk of tardive dyskinesia (TD) and the potential association of risperidone with TD are discussed.

Background: Schizophrenia is a chronic, debilitating psychiatric disorder which one of the leading causes disability worldwide and has large impact on individuals, families society. There paucity literature usefulness Homoeopathy in Schizophrenia.
 Cases summary: Two cases are assessed symptomatically using Positive Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) treated Psychiatry Department (blinded for...

Delusions are known to be influenced by the popular media, the sociopolitical undercurrents and also by the scientific innovations. Internet is one such modern communication tool, which can easily be incorporated into the delusional system of patients by virtue of its semblance to some psychopathological phenomena. We describe a patient with paranoid schizophrenia who developed a delusion about...

OBJECTIVE Recently, quality of life is a concern of health in psychiatry. Schizophrenia is a disorder that has the most regressive effects in societies' and patients' behavioural, occupational and psychiatric aspects. The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the quality of life and global function of schizophrenia patients. METHODS A hundred schizophrenia patients (with DSM-IV-TR) who h...