Schizophrenia,“just the facts” 4. Clinical features and conceptualization

R Tandon, HA Nasrallah, MS Keshavan - Schizophrenia research, 2009 - Elsevier
Although dementia praecox or schizophrenia has been considered a unique disease entity
for the past century, its definitions and boundaries have continued to vary over this period. At …

Social functioning as an outcome measure in schizophrenia studies

T Burns, D Patrick - Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Objective: Deficits in social functioning are a core feature of schizophrenia. Method: A
literature search of English language articles published between January 1990 and …

[BOOK][B] The use of psychological testing for treatment planning and outcomes assessment: Volume 3: Instruments for adults

ME Maruish - 2004 - taylorfrancis.com
Test-based psychological assessment has been significantly affected by the health care
revolution in the United States during the past two decades. Despite new limitations on …

Working memory and prefrontal cortex dysfunction: specificity to schizophrenia compared with major depression

DM Barch, YI Sheline, JG Csernansky, AZ Snyder - Biological psychiatry, 2003 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: A large number of studies suggest the presence of deficits in dorsolateral
prefrontal cortex function during performance of working memory tasks in individuals with …

Symptom dimensions in recent-onset schizophrenia and mania: a principal components analysis of the 24-item Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale

J Ventura, KH Nuechterlein, KL Subotnik, D Gutkind… - Psychiatry …, 2000 - Elsevier
Previous four-and five-factor solutions of the 18-item Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS)
suggested the possibility of an affective dimension in psychosis. A principal components …

First-episode psychosis: psychopathology, quality of life, and functional outcome

A Malla, J Payne - Schizophrenia bulletin, 2005 - academic.oup.com
The burgeoning interest in investigating the first episode of schizophrenia and related
disorders provides an opportunity to examine how this approach has assisted our …

The varied outcomes of schizophrenia

L Davidson, TH McGlashan - The Canadian Journal of …, 1997 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: To review variations in outcomes in schizophrenia across individual, historical,
and cross-cultural boundaries, as well as within specific domains of functioning. Method …

Meta-analysis of the brief psychiatric rating scale factor structure.

A Shafer - Psychological assessment, 2005 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract A meta-analysis (N= 17,620; k= 26) of factor analyses of the Brief Psychiatric Rating
Scale (BPRS) was conducted. Analysis of the 12 items from Overall et al.'s (JE Overall, LE …

Context-processing deficits in schizophrenia: diagnostic specificity, 4-week course, and relationships to clinical symptoms.

DM Barch, CS Carter, AW MacDonald III… - Journal of abnormal …, 2003 - psycnet.apa.org
Previous research on schizophrenia suggests that context-processing disturbances are one
of the core cognitive deficits present in schizophrenia. However, it is not clear whether such …

[HTML][HTML] Psychopathologic domains and insight in schizophrenia

XF Amador, JM Gorman - Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 1998 - Elsevier
Toward the end of the 19th century, Kraepelin43 grouped together the then pre-existing
diagnostic categories of hebephrenia, catatonia, and paranoid psychosis into a single …