Neurocognition, negative symptom effects in psychotic prodrome clarified
The contribution of neurocognition and negative symptoms to impaired social and role functioning in patients at clinical high risk of psychosis is important enough to warrant targeting both with therapeutic interventions, say researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - March 7, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Community care helps schizophrenia patients in resource-poor settings
Collaborative care delivered by community health workers can improve outcomes among patients with schizophrenia receiving facility-based case in resource-poor settings, shows a study in The Lancet. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - March 6, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Drug abuse does not always lead to psychosis readmission
Cannabis or stimulant abuse disorders do not necessarily predict a negative outcome for patients with first-episode psychosis, Australian researchers report. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - March 5, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Cancer contributes to schizophrenia mortality
Study findings confirm the increased risk of death from physical diseases among patients with schizophrenia, and reveal cancer mortality as an issue among middle-aged patients. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - March 4, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Elevated homocysteine not gender-specific in schizophrenia
Japanese researchers have demonstrated that both men and women with schizophrenia have significantly higher plasma homocysteine levels than healthy controls. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - February 28, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Further support for hippocampal volume as psychosis biomarker
Findings from the Bipolar-Schizophrenia Network on Intermediate Phenotypes provide further evidence that reduced hippocampal volume is a consistent feature of schizophrenia. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - February 27, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Attitudinal beliefs feed negative schizophrenia symptoms
Dysfunctional attitudes and low self-efficacy are associated with poorer functioning in patients with early schizophrenia, and this relationship is partly mediated by negative symptoms, shows research. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - February 26, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Substance abuse worsens course of first-episode psychosis
Patients with first-episode psychosis who also present with substance abuse have a higher rate of hospitalisation after 12 months than their peers who do not, an Italian study reports. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - February 25, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Factors predicting disengagement from psychosis early intervention identified
A study of first-episode psychosis patients in Hong Kong has found that those with fewer negative symptoms at presentation and poor medication compliance were more likely than others to disengage from an early intervention program. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - February 21, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Psychotherapies have specific effects on psychosis symptoms
There are small but robust differences in the effects of different psychotherapies on psychosis symptoms, say the authors of a meta-analysis. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - February 20, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Stereotype awareness impacts self-esteem in schizophrenia
Patients with psychosis with higher self-esteem have less awareness of the stereotypes associated with mental health patients and their families, research shows. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - February 19, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Verbal memory may signal disease course in first-episode psychosis
Verbal memory appears to be a predictor of clinical remission in patients with first-episode psychosis, according to Canadian researchers writing in Schizophrenia Research. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - February 17, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
‘Healthy living’ programme fails to lower BMI in overweight psychosis patients
A “healthy living” intervention focused on exercise and diet has failed to impact body mass index in overweight people with psychosis when evaluated in the setting of a randomised controlled trial. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - February 14, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Common mutations produce typical schizophrenia brain changes
Mutations in dopamine-related genes have a dose-response effect on prefrontal activation during emotional response inhibition in healthy adults, a study shows. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - February 13, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Urinary tract infections linked to acute psychosis relapse
Patients with an acute episode of psychosis have a high incidence of urinary tract infections, report researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - February 12, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
