Caregivers of patients with schizophrenia have an impact on self-esteem and social support due to the nature symptoms prolonged duration illness. To assess compare among caregivers chronic Schizophrenia. The study was cross-sectional. It conducted at outpatient department (OPD) CIIMHANS, Dewada, Rajnandgoan, Chhattisgarh, India. A total 100 (50 50 normal controls) samples were selected through ...

Action selection requires a policy that maps states of the world to distribution over actions. The amount memory needed specify (the complexity) increases with state-dependence policy. If there is capacity limit for complexity, then will also be trade-off between reward and since some need sacrificed in order satisfy constraint. This paper empirically characterizes complexity both schizophrenia...

Objectives: Patients with schizophrenia are characterized with deficiencies in various aspects of social functioning. Given the relationship between social functioning deficits and relapse in these patients, identification of underlying factors is of significant importance. Thus, in this study, the contribution of each dimension of social cognition (Emotion Perception [EP], Theory of Mind [ToM]...

Schizophrenia is a severe neuropsychiatric disorder with symptoms such as hallucination, delusion and mental disorder. It is a complex disorder, in which genetic components play a crucial role in its pathogenesis. Among candidate genes for schizophrenia, Neuregulin 1 (NRG1) gene is the most important gene,  association of which with the illness has been confirmed in several studies. Single nucl...

Objective(s):The hippocampus has been implicated in pathophysiology of schizophrenia. Prenatal stress is a contributing risk factor for a wide variety of neuropsychiatric diseases including schizophrenia. This study examined long-term effects of prenatal restraint stress on the stereological parameters in the Cornu Ammonis (CA) of adult male rats as an animal model of schizophrenia. Materials ...

Objectives: Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder that has profound effects on both individuals and the community. Notwithstanding the suggestion for treating schizophrenia with a minimum dose of drugs, antipsychotic polypharmacy increases the patient’s care costs and drug interactions. Aripiprazole reduces the metabolic side effects of antipsychotic polypharmacy treatment. DRD2 and HT...

Negative symptoms are still a major obstacle in the recovery of schizophrenic patients. Many attempts to develop novel drugs affecting negative symptoms of schizophrenia have yielded insignificant results. This study evaluates the effects of bromocriptine, a dopamine agonist, on negative symptoms of schizophrenia utilizing a placebo-controlled crossover double-blind clinical trial. Methodology:...

The etiopathogenesis of schizophrenia to date appears unclear. Multiple types research have focused attention on the possible etiological role amygdala. amygdala is involved in emotion processing, cognitive function, and social cognition; these aspects appear severely impaired schizophrenia. In this brief review, we will look at studies that correlated morpho-functional with psychopathological ...