Publications by authors named "Mohammad Furqan Bari"
Objectives: To determine serum levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor and its polymorphism rs12291063 in schizophrenic patients.
Methods: The case-control study was conducted from January1, 2020, to May 15, 2021, at Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, and comprised schizophrenia cases aged 14-60 years who were diagnosed using Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-V criteria, and healthy controls without any psychiatric illness. Positive and negative syndrome scale score was used to assess disease severity.