Objectives: Psychotropic drug use in the elderly with chronic schizophrenia is an important issue in the field of psychiatry. The main goal of this study was to clarify the pattern of such drug use in these patients, in order to consider such therapy plan and focus on its cost attributing measures, for a more reasonable quality of care program. Methods: In this descriptive study, participant...

OBJECTIVE The authors previously reported that men with chronic schizophrenia had a smaller vermian subregion than did healthy men. In this study, they tested whether posterior superior vermis reduction would be seen in a larger group of schizophrenia patients, both male and female. METHOD Brain volumetric analyses were performed with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in 59 male and female pat...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of the adapted virtual reality cognitive training program in older adults with chronic schizophrenia. METHODS Older adults with chronic schizophrenia were recruited from a long-stay care setting and were randomly assigned into intervention (n = 12) and control group (n = 15). The intervention group received 10-session of VR program that consisted of 2 VR activi...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effects of memantine, an N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist, on cognitive impairments in patients with chronic schizophrenia. METHODS A 12-week, placebo-controlled trial was conducted to determine the effectiveness of memantine as an adjunctive treatment with conventional antipsychotic medications in 26 patients with chronic schizophrenia. The subject...

Auricular acupressure is widely used in complementary and alternative medicine to reduce body weight, but little is known about the effects of auricular acupressure on body weight parameters in patients with chronic schizophrenia. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of auricular acupressure on body weight parameters in patients with chronic schizophrenia. Eighty-six inpatients...

BACKGROUND Emotion recognition impairments have been demonstrated in schizophrenia, but few studies have examined whether these reflect generalised or specific perceptual deficits or are associated with illness course. AIMS To examine the nature of emotion recognition abnormalities in patients with schizophrenia at different stages of illness. METHOD We examined the performance of 50 in-pat...

Schizophrenia as a chronic mental disorder, has increased in number the last three decades DALYs (Disability Adjusted Life Years). Antipsychotics have been mainstay of treatment. The use combinations typical/atipycal antipsychotic active substances is very often done. purpose this study was to look at patient characteristics and clinical including type combinations. This research descriptive wi...

conclusions it can be concluded that schizophrenia can have an effect on the quality of life. some items such as family care, early and on time treatment play an important role in increasing the quality of life. results the participants in this study gained the highest quality of life in the domain of physical, environmental and psychological health and social relationships. there was no signif...