That the social environment is inextricably involved in the health of individuals and populations was recognized long ago, extending back beyond the parallel activities in England, France, and Germany during the mid-1800s that led to the beginnings of the public health movement. 1 Despite the important contributions of early urban sociologists, 2,3 for the next century and a half the discussion...

INTRODUCTION Social cognition is an important determinant of functioning in schizophrenia. However, how social cognition relates to the clinical symptoms of schizophrenia is still unclear. The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between a social cognition domain, Theory of Mind (ToM), and the clinical symptoms of schizophrenia. Specifically, we investigated the associations betwee...

BACKGROUND Psychiatric taxonomists have sometimes argued for a unitary psychosis syndrome and sometimes for a pentagonal model, including 5 diagnostic constructs of positive symptoms, negative symptoms, cognitive disorganization, mania, and depression. This continues to be debated in preparation for impending revisions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and the Interna...

Shaw and McKay advanced social disorganization theory in the 1930s, kick-starting a large body of research on communities crime. Studies emphasize individual impacts poverty, residential instability, racial/ethnic heterogeneity by examining their independent effects crime, adopting variable-centered approach. We use “neighborhood-centered” approach that considers how structural forces combine i...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to explore the factor structure of a novel, 10-item rating scale, the Targeted Inventory on Problems in Schizophrenia (TIP-Sz). Determining the factor structure will be useful in the brief evaluation of medication and non-medication treatment of the disease. METHODS An exploratory factor analysis was performed on TIP-Sz scores obtained from 100 patients who...

Schizophrenia is increasingly being viewed as a "whole brain" disorder with deficits affecting widespread cortical and subcortical networks. Within this context, studies of visual cortical function may be particularly important both because visual processing deficits directly affect social and occupational function and because these systems are well characterized at the basic science level, per...

telegram is now considered as one of the most famous platform online social networks among media university students. nowadays, the immense popularity of social networking websites such as telegram has created new opportunities for english learners. accordingly, the present study aims to investigate whether telegram would be an effective and easy learning tool of vocabulary for iranian female e...