Sentences with phrase «schizophrenia symptom severity»

Review: non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs may reduce schizophrenia symptom severity in the short term when added to antipsychotics

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Brain activation and severity of symptoms in schizophrenia patients: Red areas represent regions related to the severity of speech fluency in schizophrenia.

Led by Brenda Penninx, PhD, of the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, the study found that patients with an early age at onset and higher symptom severity have an increased genetic risk for MDD, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

In this study, the researchers compared the severity of negative symptoms and proline levels in 95 hospitalized schizophrenia patients with variants of the COMT gene.

Decreased vagal tone in patients with schizophrenia is significantly correlated with symptom severity.32, 33)

Negative symptoms and clinical severity were assessed using five items from the schizophrenia Postive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) negative symptoms subscale (blunted affect, emotional withdrawal, poor rapport, social withdrawal and verbal fluency).

Design: Patients with chronic schizophrenia were randomly allocated, stratified according to severity of symptoms and sex, to intensive cognitive behaviour therapy and routine care, supportive counselling and routine care, and routine care alone.

Prognostic factors Severity of positive and negative symptoms (schedules for positive and negative symptoms); course of illness over the past 2 years; level of functioning (Global Assessment of Functioning scale (GAF)-RRB-; premorbid functioning (Premorbid Adjustment scale); duration of untreated psychosis (interview for retrospective assessment of onset of schizophrenia); days of hospitalisation; number of contacts with psychiatric services; number of days in supported housing.