Abstract Background: Methylphenidate is one of the classic amphetamines which can cause or exacerbate psychotic symptoms in schizophrenia patients. Methods: In this paper, a young man is presented with injection of methylphenidate tablets with acute cellulitis due to this injection and the related symptoms. In the first hospitalization and after recovery from psychotic disorder due to ...

The present commentary aims to investigate findings of cognitive impairment in bipolar disorder in comparison with those in schizophrenia. Bipolar disorder may share a subtle neurodevelopmental deviation with schizophrenia. However, premorbid enhanced cognitive function can be a risk factor only for bipolar disorder. Performance patterns of social and nonsocial cognition may be oppositional bet...

Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder associated with wide spectrum of cognitive and neurophysiological dysfunctions. Early diagnosis still difficult based on the manifestation disorder. In this study, we have evaluated whether machine learning techniques can help in schizophrenia, proposed processing pipeline order to obtain classifiers schizophrenia resting state EEG data. We computed wel...

BACKGROUND People with mental health problems are more likely to die prematurely than the general population but no study has examined this in individuals with diabetes. AIMS To compare survival rates in people with diabetes with and without schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. METHOD A total of 43,992 people with diabetes were drawn from the QRESEARCH database population of over 9 million pa...

to identify mental disorders and their prevalence in patients with retinitis pigmentosa (rp).this descriptive study was carried out between january 2009 and january 2010 on 417 patients with rp, who were members of iran rp center. the necessary data were collected using questionnaires consisting two parts: the background characteristics and questions assessing the mental health and screening pe...

BACKGROUND Relapse and hospital admission are common among, and carry a heavy burden in, patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The aim of this study was to assess the risk of relapse and hospitalizations in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder at the St Amanuel Mental Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. PATIENTS AND METHODS A hospital-based comparative cross-s...

BACKGROUND There is a long-standing belief that creativity is coupled with psychopathology. AIMS To test this alleged association and to investigate whether any such association is the result of environmental or genetic factors. METHOD We performed a nested case-control study based on Swedish registries. The likelihood of holding a creative occupation in individuals who had received in-pati...

Risperidone is a commonly used medication for the treatment of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia in children and adolescents. It has been studied as a monotherapy treatment in early onset schizophrenia and as both monotherapy and combination therapy for pediatric bipolar disorder. Studies to date indicate that risperidone is an effective treatment for positive and negative symptoms of schizoph...

Receptive language disorder in schizophrenia is hypothesized to represent a learning disorder that involves a neurodevelopmental etiology. It is argued that a preexisting developmental language disorder may characterize a subset of schizophrenia patients. A primary deficit in the temporal dynamics of brain function is assumed to cause receptive language disorder in schizophrenia. This hypothesi...

Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe mental disorder characterized by abnormal social behavior and failure to understand reality [1]. Clinically, the disorder manifests with a large variety of symptoms that fall into three categories: positive, negative, and cognitive [2]. Schizophrenia affects about 1.1% of world wide population [3]. Although schizophrenia is not as common as other mental dis...