Browsing Psychosis and schizophrenia by Issue Date
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Fregoli syndrome after cerebral infarction
(1987)A case of a rare form of delusional misidentification, the Fregoli syndrome, is described. Although usually occurring in the setting of primary or secondary schizophrenic psychoses, delusional misidentification has been ... -
Lithium carbonate in chronic schizophrenia — a brief trial of lithium carbonate added to neuroleptics for treatment of resistant schizophrenic patients
(1991)The value of lithium carbonate as an adjunctive treatment of resistant schizophrenia was tested in a 4‐week clinical trial using a single‐blind, randomized, consent design. Treatment and control groups were drawn from a ... -
Mentally Abnormal Homicide — a review of a special hospital male population
(1993)The clinical, criminological and demographic characteristics of a Special Hospital population of male patients convicted of homicide are described. The results confirm much previous work on mentally abnormal homicide. ... -
Schizophrenia, violence, clozapine and risperidone: A review
(1996)There is no longer much doubt that there is a small but real association between psychosis and violence directed at others, as well as between psychosis and self-directed violence, including suicide. Schizophrenia and the ... -
Psychiatric manifestations of normal-pressure hydrocephalus: A short review and unusual case
(1997)Presents the case of a 68-yr-old male with paranoid psychosis and mild cognitive impairment, but no neurological signs or classic triad. Gait disturbance and urinary incontinence developed later in the course of illness ... -
Substance misuse and violence: A comparison of special hospital inpatients diagnosed with either schizophrenia or personality disorder
(1998)There is increasing interest in the relationship between schizophrenia, substance misuse and serious violence. We compared the pattern of substance misuse in inpatients with schizophrenia convicted of serious offences with ... -
Lifetime risk of suicide in affective disorders
(1998)Comments on the H. M. Inskip et al (see record 1998-00590-008) study on the lifetime risk of suicide for affective disorder, alcoholism, and schizophrenia. While Inskip et al propose that we revise the lifetime risk of ... -
Aggressive incidents in first-episode psychosis
(2001)Background: Recent research has reported increased risk of aggressive incidents by individuals with psychotic illness. Aims: To examine acts of aggression in first-episode psychosis. Method: Subjects with a first-episode ... -
Mentally disordered parricide and stranger killers admitted to high-security care. 1: A descriptive comparison
(2001)Parricide is an uncommon crime, so that many of the descriptive studies suffer from methodological shortcomings of small sample sizes and a non-representative ascertainment. We describe a consecutive series of mentally ... -
Psychiatric aspects of criminal homicide in Nigeria
(2001)OBJECTIVES: To investigate the Psychiatric aspects of homicide in Nigeria, and, the psychosocial and forensic background of homicide offenders in Nigeria; to determine the role of the mental health services in the disposal ... -
Antidepressants for people with both schizophrenia and depression
(2002)Background: Depressive symptoms, often of substantial severity, are found in 50% of newly diagnosed suffers of schizophrenia and 33% of people with chronic schizophrenia who have relapsed. Depression is associated with ... -
Minor physical anomalies in schizophrenia: Is age a confounding factor?
(2003)Minor physical anomalies (MPAs) occur more frequently in a range of developmental disorders. They are also more frequent in schizophrenia supporting a neurodevelopmental aetiology of the illness. Contemporary MPA scales ... -
Experiences of parents with a son or daughter suffering from schizophrenia
(2003)Parents of 22 patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, and receiving care in a secure forensic setting, were interviewed to elicit their views on the causes of the disorder, the emotional burden and the helpfulness of others ... -
Influence of antipsychotic agents on neurological soft signs and dyskinesia in first episode psychosis
(2003)First episode psychosis patients treated with atypical antipsychotics had significantly fewer signs of dyskinesia than patients treated with classical antipsychotics, but there were no significant differences regarding the ... -
Objectivity in psychoanalytic assessment of couple relationships
(2003)Background: Clinicians claim that partners in a couple can be understood to share a mode of relating, at an unconscious level. Assessment of this depends on inference from observable data. This study tests the viability ... -
Clotiapine for acute psychotic illnesses
(2004)Background: Acute psychotic illnesses, especially when associated with agitated or violent behaviour, require urgent pharmacological tranquillisation or sedation. Clotiapine, a dibenzothiazepine neuroleptic, is being used ...
