Schizophrenia

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Schizophrenia

General Information

NEWS:

ARTICLES:

Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia: An Update

NGC - Practice parameter for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with schizophrenia. (2000)

NGC - Schizophrenia (2003)

When Someone Has Schizophrenia

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

A 4-fold risk of metabolic syndrome in patients with schizophrenia: the Northern Finland 1966 Birth Cohort study. (J Clin Psychiatry. 2005)

A systematic review of the prevalence of schizophrenia. (PLoS Med. 2005)

Clinical profiles, scope and general findings of the Western Sydney First Episode Psychosis Project. (Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2005)

Craniofacial dysmorphology in Swedish schizophrenia patients. (Acta Psychiatr Scand. 2005)

Depression in the long-term course of schizophrenia. (Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2005)

Differential changes in apolipoprotein E in schizophrenia and bipolar I disorder. (Biol Psychiatry. 2005)

Elevated glutamine/glutamate ratio in cerebrospinal fluid of first episode and drug naive schizophrenic patients. (BMC Psychiatry. 2005)

Evidence of genetic overlap of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: Linkage disequilibrium analysis of chromosome 18 in the Costa Rican population. (Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet. 2005)

Facial expressiveness in patients with schizophrenia compared to depressed patients and nonpatient comparison subjects. (Am J Psychiatry. 2005)

Increased Prefrontal and Hippocampal Glutamate Concentration in Schizophrenia: Evidence from a Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Study. (Biol Psychiatry. 2005)

Is cannabis an anti-antipsychotic? The experience in psychiatric intensive care. (Hum Psychopharmacol. 2005)

Is initiation of smoking associated with the prodromal phase of schizophrenia? (J Psychiatry Neurosci. 2005)

Long-term course of adolescent schizophrenia. (Schizophr Bull. 2005)

Medical Morbidity and Mortality in Schizophrenia: Guidelines for Psychiatrists. (J Clin Psychiatry. 2005)

Neurocognitive function in schizophrenia at a 10-year follow-up: a preliminary investigation. (CNS Spectr. 2005)

Nutritional and life style determinants of plasma homocysteine in schizophrenia patients. (Eur Neuropsychopharmacol. 2005)

Obsessive compulsive symptoms in schizophrenia: frequency and clinical features. (Schizophr Res. 2005)

Obsessive-compulsive disorder in elderly schizophrenia patients. (J Psychiatr Res. 2005)

[Obsessive-compulsive symptoms in schizophrenia.] (Turk Psikiyatri Derg. 2005)

Obsessive-compulsive symptoms in schizophrenia: associated clinical features, cognitive function and medication status. (Schizophr Res. 2005)

Obsessive compulsive symptoms in schizophrenia: frequency and clinical features. (Schizophr Res. 2005)

Obsessive-compulsive symptoms in schizophrenia: prevalance and clinical correlates. (Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2005)

Predicting schizophrenia: findings from the Edinburgh High-Risk Study. (Br J Psychiatry. 2005)

Predictors of schizophrenia--a review. (Br Med Bull. 2005)

Pregnancy, delivery, and neonatal complications in a population cohort of women with schizophrenia and major affective disorders. (Am J Psychiatry. 2005)

Quality of sleep in patients with schizophrenia is associated with quality of life and coping. (BMC Psychiatry. 2005)

Schizophrenia and suicide: systematic review of risk factors. (Br J Psychiatry. 2005)

[Schizophrenia--neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative theory revisited] (Psychiatr Pol. 2005)

Similar rhythms of seasonal conceptions in neural tube defects and schizophrenia: A hypothesis of oxidant stress and the photoperiod. (Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol)

Stability and prediction of schizophrenia from adolescence to adulthood. (Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2005)

The consequences of Conduct Disorder for males who develop schizophrenia: Associations with criminality, aggressive behavior, substance use, and psychiatric services. (Schizophr Res. 2005)

The early course of schizophrenia and depression*. (Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2005)

The lifetime risk of suicide in schizophrenia: a reexamination. (Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2005)

The neural basis of hallucinations and delusions. (C R Biol. 2005)

The relationship between eye movement and brain structural abnormalities in patients with schizophrenia and their unaffected relatives. (J Psychiatr Res. 2005)

Theories of schizophrenia: a genetic-inflammatory-vascular synthesis. (BMC Med Genet. 2005)

Tobacco use in schizophrenia: a study of cotinine concentrations in the saliva of patients and controls. (Eur Psychiatry. 2005)

Working memory functioning in schizophrenia patients and their first-degree relatives: cognitive functioning shedding light on etiology. (Neuropsychologia. 2005)

INTERNET SITES:

NIH - Medical Encyclopedia Schizophrenia

NIH - NIMH Schizophrenia

NIH - NIMH When Someone Has Schizophrenia

NIH - Schizophrenia

NIH - Schizophrenia Resources

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