Cognitive behavioural therapy and supportive counselling significantly improve
schizophrenia symptoms compared with usual care.
At 18 months both cognitive behavioural therapy and supportive counselling plus usual care significantly improved
schizophrenia symptoms compared with usual care (p > 0.005).
Not exact matches
The analysis revealed that people with
schizophrenia showed markedly less brain activity during detection of the tonal changes as
compared to the control group, a difference that became more apparent as
symptoms worsened.
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.
So not only they experienced reduced
symptoms of
schizophrenia, but their overall health increased as well,
compared to the control group who didn't experience any improvements at all.
Review: clozapine reduces relapse and
symptoms compared with typical neuroleptic drugs in
schizophrenia
Moreover, men with depressive
symptoms have reduced parasympathetic activity
compared with control subjects, whereas no differences between depressed women and controls have been reported.44) Because the demographic characteristics of patients with various psychiatric disorders (e.g.,
schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, PTSD, and MDD) differ, the recruitment of separate groups of healthy controls that are well matched to individuals with each psychiatric disorder is necessary to clarify the HRV data.
OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science QUESTION: Does cognitive behavioural therapy prevent relapse of
schizophrenia compared with usual care in people with prodromal
symptoms?
Targeting cognitive behaviour therapy to people with
schizophrenia whose prodromal
symptoms increase, may reduce relapse rates and hospital admission
compared with usual care.
Bupropion reduces nicotine dependence and increases smoking cessation
compared with control in people with
schizophrenia, without affecting positive, negative or depressive
symptoms.