Background: Measure of insight into cognition self-report (MIC-SR) has been designed for the assessment cognitive deficits in schizophrenia, focusing on areas with known impairment, including memory, problem solving, and attention. Objectives: The current work strives to put concurrent validity reliability Persian version MIC-SR test. Methods: standard forward-backward method was utilized trans...

objective: deficits in the processing of facial emotions have been reported extensively in patients with schizophrenia. to explore whether restricted attention is the cause of impaired emotion processing in these patients, we examined visual attention through tracking eye movements in response to emotional and neutral face stimuli in a group of patients with schizophrenia and healthy individual...

Objective: This project aimed to study early maladaptive schemas in adults with parents afflicted with schizophrenia.  Methods: In a causal-comparative study, a sample of 39 adults with one schizophrenic parent as the experiment group and 40 students without schizophrenic parents as the control group were selected. Both groups completed early maladaptive schema questionnaire. Descriptive ...

background: the purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that the addition of buspirone, a partial agonist of 5ht1a receptor, to ongoing treatment with typical antipsychotics would improve the positive and negative symptoms in patients with chronic schizophrenia. materials and methods: in this study, 50 patients including 40 male and 10 female were recruited with chronic schizophrenia w...

objective: schizophrenia and other psychoses have devastating personal and social impacts and many efforts have been devoted to study ‎prodromal syndromes for psychosis in order to achieve earlier detection and interventions. however, only few studies have been ‎performed in developing countries on this subject, and there is a dearth of evidence in the iranian population. in this study, we ‎foc...

background: to evaluate public perceptions towards the causes of depression and schizophrenia and identifications of fac­tors resulting stigma towards mental ill. method: a cross-sectional study was conducted among the inhabitants of pulau-pinang, malaysia in march, 2009. a 24-item questionnaire was used to obtain respondent views. a non-probability (i.e convenient sampling method) was used to ...

objective: glutamate antagonists including anticonvulsant topiramate have been recommended for the pharmacological management of schizophrenia. methods: a randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled clinical trial was performed on 32 patients diagnosed with schizophrenia (18-45 years old). baseline information was gathered on demographic characteristics, vital signs, height, weight, smoking ha...

results we detected nine homozygotes in patients and 15 in control subjects. homozygosity was 7.08% and 11.8% in cases and control, respectively. nine types homozygote haplotype were detected in upper region of the cav1 gene in cases and controls. three haplotypes were common in cases and controls; four haplotypes were seen in controls only and two in cases. conclusions our findings implied a s...