BACKGROUND Using drugs is a common affliction in patients with Schizophrenia affecting their increasing death rate. They have to tolerate longer treatment time and staying in hospital and they further show more violence and their living quality decreases. It also seems that this factor is among the influential factors of unsuccessful results in treating these patients. OBJECTIVES Despite all ...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Though number of studies have examined the prevalence of depression at different phases of the schizophrenic illness, the precise nature of depressive symptoms present in different phases of the schizophrenic illness remains unclear. We therefore undertook this study to characterize and compare the profile of depressive symptoms in acute and chronic schizophrenia with tho...

INTRODUCTION: Although common hematological abnormalities (CHA) such as anemia, macrocytosis, and platelet dysfunction are often present in patients with schizophrenia, empirical data limited. Thus far, deviations have been mentioned either reports or a series of clinical cases.
 AIM: To study the incidence CHA schizophrenia.
 MATERIALS AND METHODS: This involved 791 schizophrenia [in...

Posner's (1980) reaction time (RT) paradigm was used to examine the engagement and disengagement operations of visual selective attention in patients with schizophrenia. In the 1st experiment, 14 medicated, chronic schizophrenic subjects (diagnosed by criteria of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; American Psychiatric Association, 1987) and 15 age-matched normal control ...

The relationship between social competence and information processing among individuals with chronic schizophrenia was investigated. Thirty-eight inpatients participated in a role play test of social competence and completed a battery of information-processing tasks. Information processing was found to be significantly related to social competence, even after controlling for patient demographic...