schizophrenia is a mental disorder painful with prevalence of about 1% in the world.  nowadays, there is no experimental test aiding the accurate diagnosis of schizophrenic patients but recently quantitative determination of some serum proteins led to many investigations on the roles of these in neuropsychiatric.in the present study, our aim is to quantitative determination apoa1 and igm betwee...

The relations between premorbid adjustment, social skill, and domains of functioning (symptoms, social adjustment) were examined in a group of 107 schizophrenic, schizoaffective, and affective disorder patients. Premorbid sexual adjustment was moderately correlated with social skill in the schizophrenic and schizoaffective patients. Schizophrenic patients had the lowest premorbid adjustment and...

Objectives: One of the principle of mental health programs is burden and coping of caregivers of chronically mental disorders patients. In this regard, the aim of present study was to measure the amount of burden and relationship between burden and their coping strategies of caregivers. Methods: One hundred of main caregivers of patients (50 schizophrenic patients, 50 bipolar patients) from ...

In a study of sixty institutionalist Schizophrenic patients, sixty chronic schizophrenic outpatients and an equal number of age and sex matched normal controls from the same regional background, the prevalence of HBsAG was six, one and zero respectively. Institutionalized schizophrenic patients are a high risk group for hepatitis B virus infection.

Olfactory identification performance and olfactory thresholds in patients with schizophrenia were investigated in this study. Three primary questions were raised: (a) Do neuroleptically medicated schizophrenic patients demonstrate significant olfactory identification deficits in the absence of olfactory acuity (threshold) deficits when compared with (i) non-schizophrenic, neuroleptically unrned...

The apolipoprotein E (APOE) epsilon4 allele is a known risk factor for the development of Alzheimer's disease, however, an association of the APOE genotype with schizophrenia is controversial. We investigated the association in 60 Korean schizophrenic patients and 60 healthy controls. APOE genotypes were identified by reverse hybridization-based line probe assay. There were significant differen...

ABSTRACTBackground; Schizophrenia recurrence is caused by many factors, one of which family factors. Family very important for people with schizophrenia, where the roles and functions to provide an affective function meet psychosocial needs members in providing affection. Objective; This study was conducted aim knowing correlation between cohesion schizophrenic patients at Dr. Soetomo Hospital ...

Due to the deficits of schizophrenic patients regarding the understanding of vague meanings (D. Ketteler and S. Ketteler (2010)) we develop a special test battery called HOLF (high order linguistic function test), which should be able to detect subtle linguistic performance deficits in schizophrenic patients. HOLF was presented to 40 schizophrenic patients and controls, focussing on linguistic ...

BACKGROUND Chronic schizophrenic patients have been reported as having higher osteoporosis prevalence. Survey the bone mass among schizophrenic patients and compare with that of the local community population and reported data of the same country to figure out the distribution of bone mass among schizophrenic patients. METHODS 965 schizophrenic patients aged 20 years and over in Yuli Veterans...