Schizophrenia
Jan 17, 2022
There is a relative lack of long-term, prospective data evaluating the safety and effectiveness of treatment in early-onset adolescent patients with schizophrenia who are treatment-naïve. The aim of ...
Jan 17, 2022
Early intervention for psychosis services have been established worldwide and consist of specialist services for those with the At-Risk Mental State (ARMS) and a first episode of psychosis (FEP). This...
Jan 10, 2022
Schizophrenia is a chronic mental disorder characterized by continuous or relapsing episodes of psychosis. While previous studies have detected functional network connectivity alterations in patients ...
Jan 03, 2022
Hampered by the symptom complexity and diversity, the understanding of fundamental mechanisms underlying psychiatric disorders remains elusive. Traditional neuroscience research focusing on each behav...
Dec 27, 2021
Psychological models of the consequences of ostracism (i.e. being socially excluded and ignored) and negative symptoms in schizophrenia suggest that repeatedly experiencing ostracism can lead to eleva...
Dec 27, 2021
The specific phenotype of depression in recent-onset schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) and its relation to non-psychotic depression is unknown. Symptom profile and network analysis are complement...
Dec 20, 2021
The stigma and prejudice of the public regarding psychiatric disorders are a long-standing social problem. However, health professionals are more likely to have negative attitudes and label people wit...
Nov 22, 2021
The schizophrenia diagnosis represents a difficult task because of the confusing descriptions of symptoms given by the patient, their similarity among several disorders, the lower familiarity with gen...
Nov 15, 2021
The tryptophan-kynurenine pathway is of major interest in psychiatry and is altered in patients with depression, schizophrenia and panic disorder. Stress and immune alterations can impact this system,...
Nov 08, 2021
Schizophrenia is a devastating psychiatric illness that detrimentally affects a significant portion of the worldwide population. Aging of schizophrenia patients is associated with reduced longevity, b...
Nov 01, 2021
The underlying pathologies of psychiatric disorders, which cause substantial personal and social losses, remain unknown, and their elucidation is an urgent issue. To clarify the core pathological mech...
Oct 25, 2021
About one in 100 people worldwide are diagnosed with schizophrenia. Many people advocate for a name change for the condition, pointing to the stigma and discrimination associated with the term "schizo...
Oct 25, 2021
Cannabis is the most used recreational drug worldwide. Its use can increase the risk of developing psychotic disorders and exacerbate their course. However, the relationship between cannabis use and d...
Oct 18, 2021
Although some individuals with at-risk mental states (ARMS) develop overt psychosis, surrogate markers which can reliably predict a future onset of psychosis are not well established. The dorsal later...
Oct 11, 2021
Chronic treatments with dopamine D2 receptor ligands induce fluctuations in D2 receptor density. Since D2 receptors tend to assemble as homodimers, we hypothesized that receptor density might influenc...
Oct 04, 2021
Neuroinflammation has been connected to the pathophysiology of major depressive disorder (MDD) and neurochemical biomarkers of glial pathology could aid the diagnosis and might support patient stratif...
Sep 27, 2021
thinking is a cognitive process that involves the assimilation of concepts reduced from diffuse sensory input, organized, and interpreted in a manner beyond the obvious. There are multiple facets by w...
Sep 27, 2021
Nonlinear dynamical analysis has been used to quantify the complexity of brain signal at temporal scales. Power law scaling is a well-validated method in physics that has been used to describe the dyn...
Sep 20, 2021
Reduced gray matter volumes in the superior temporal gyrus and its subregions, such as Heschl's gyrus (HG) and the planum temporale (PT), have been reported in schizophrenia (Sz). However, it remains ...
Sep 20, 2021
Anomalous self-experiences (ASE) are suggested as a phenotypic core feature of schizophrenia spectrum disorders and present in at risk samples as well. In our study, we investigated the relation betwe...