OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between aggression in the first 24 hours after admission and severity of psychopathology in psychiatric inpatients. METHODS This cross-sectional study included psychiatric patients admitted to Hospital Universitário de Santa Maria, in Santa Maria, southern Brazil, from August 2012 to January 2013. At their arrival at the hospital, patients were intervi...

Only few studies have compared the psychopathological features in first episode psychosis (FEP) and chronic schizophrenia (CS) patients. The aim of our study was to compare sociodemographic and clinical aspects of FEP and CS inpatients using the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) and the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) in order to better characterize FEP. We did not find signifi...

Serum haloperidol and serum dopamine blocking activity were measured, and steady state levels were compared in 22 chronic male schizophrenic patients. Haloperidol levels were measured by high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC), and dopamine blocking activity was measured by a radioreceptor assay (NRRA). Clinical status was determined by the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) and the Abnor...

OBJECTIVE Several structural and functional brain imaging studies have pointed to a disturbance of thalamic subnuclei in patients with schizophrenia. The dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia has, however, not been thoroughly examined in terms of this complex structure, which has connections with most brain regions of central interest in schizophrenia research. The aim of the present study was t...

Tujuan dari penelitian untuk mengetahui sejauhmana kompensasi serta budaya organisasi memiliki dampak terhadap kinerja karyawan PT. Bank BPRS Bhakti Sumekar. Teknik yang digunakan adalah metode kuantitatif. penentuan sampel menggunakan jenuh. Data dikumpulkan kuesioner, dalam uji validitas, realibilitas, asumsi klasik (uji normalitas, linearitas, dan heteroskedasitas), analisis regresi berganda...

Deficits on two continuous performance test versions and the forced-choice span of apprehension task, which are potential vulnerability factors for schizophrenic disorders, were examined in relationship to particular symptoms of schizophrenic disorders, with emphasis on hypothesized relationships to formal thought disorder and negative symptoms. These interrelationships were determined concurre...

BACKGROUND Soft neurological signs are minor, non localizing, objective abnormalities, thought to reflect damage in cortical and sub-cortical connections or connections within different cortical regions. Regional structural grey matter anomalies have already been observed and correlated with the presence of cognitive deficits and presence of soft neurological signs in schizophrenic patients. ...

Objective: To investigate the association between aggression in the first 24 hours after admission and severity of psychopathology in psychiatric inpatients. Methods: This cross-sectional study included psychiatric patients admitted to Hospital Universitário de Santa Maria, in Santa Maria, southern Brazil, from August 2012 to January 2013. At their arrival at the hospital, patients were intervi...

BACKGROUND To investigate the outcome of patients transferred from hospital to community care in Como, Italy after 6 months intensive psychosocial rehabilitation prior to discharge. METHOD All 149 residents with a primary psychiatric diagnosis were assigned to receive either a 6-month pre-discharge course of goal-oriented rehabilitation, (IT), or routine management, (RT). BPRS and GAF ratings...

OBJECTIVE To describe and evaluate the response and predictors of remission during inpatient treatment in a psychiatric unit in a general hospital based on symptomatology, functionality, and quality of life (QoL). METHODS Patients were admitted to a psychiatric unit in a tertiary general hospital in Brazil from June 2011 to December 2013 and included in the study if they met two of the severe...