Download full-text PDF |
Source |
---|
Zh Nevrol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova
April 2024
Mental Health Research Center, Moscow, Russia.
Objective: To assess clinical and psychopathological characteristics of late-aged female patients with late-onset psychoses in clusters formed on the basis of biochemical and immunological blood parameters.
Material And Methods: We examined 59 women with schizophrenia and schizophrenia-like psychoses with onset after 40 years (ICD-10 F20, F22.8, F25, F23, F06.
Neuropsychopharmacol Rep
June 2024
Department of Psychiatry, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Aim: Manipulation of the intestinal microbiome and supplying vitamin D can attenuate psychiatric symptoms in schizophrenic patients. The current study tried to evaluate the effects of probiotic/vitamin D supplementation on the cognitive function and disease severity of schizophrenic patients.
Methods: In the present study, 70 patients (aged 18-65) with schizophrenia were recruited.
Lipids Health Dis
July 2020
Department of Geriatric Psychiatry, Jianan Psychiatric Center, Ministry of Health and Welfare, No.539, Yuzhong Rd., Rende Dist., Tainan City, 71742, Taiwan.
Background: Schizophrenia is a serious long-term psychotic disorder marked by positive and negative symptoms, severe behavioral problems and cognitive function deficits. The cause of this disorder is not completely clear, but is suggested to be multifactorial, involving both inherited and environmental factors. Since human brain regulates all behaviour, studies have focused on identifying changes in neurobiology and biochemistry of brain in schizophrenia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPsychiatriki
January 2020
Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital "Elpis", Athens, Greece.
Brain is an organ with the highest lipid concentration in the body. Cellular membrane lipids can affect both the positioning and the functioning of membrane proteins, thus regulating several cell actions. Changes in the lipid composition of cell membrane can modulate the microenvironment and consequently the function of its proteins, e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFZh Nevrol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova
August 2019
Researh Center of Mental Health, Moscow, Russia.
Aim: To assess the activity of glutathione reductase (GR) and glutathione-S-transferase (GST) in blood cells of patients at clinical high-risk (HR) state for psychosis, in first-episode patients with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder (SD), and control group, and to seek correlations of these biochemical parameters with clinical assessments in patients.
Material And Methods: The study included male patients at HR (n=21, 16-25 years old), first-episode patients with schizophrenia (F20, n=14, 18-25 years old) and SD (F25, n=20, 16-25 years old), and 12 people of the control group (19-25 years old). Psychometric scales (SOPS, HDRS, and PANSS) and psychopathological methods were employed.
Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!