A False Case of Clozapine-Resistant Schizophrenia by J. P. Maia-de-Oliveira, J. P. Pinto, V. Alexandre, J. P. Machado-de-Sousa, S. L. Morais, C. Chaves, A. C. Sakamoto, A. W. Zuardi, J. A. S. Crippa, J. E. Hallak

“…However, in this case, “refractoriness” was a wrong diagnosis. A case of psychosis secondary to epilepsy had been treated as schizophrenia for almost 20 years. …”
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Effectiveness of a Videoconference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Program for Patients with Schizophrenia: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial by Masayuki Katsushima, Hideki Nakamura, Yuki Shiko, Hideki Hanaoka, Eiji Shimizu

“… BackgroundCognitive behavioral therapy for psychosis (CBTp) is not sufficiently widespread in clinical practice, although evidence has been presented. …”
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Perception of undergraduate emergency medical services students about mental health by Abdullah Alruwaili, Ahmed Alanazy, Fatimah Alyousif, Kawthar Alnajjad, Asrar Alali

“…Moreover, perceptions about psychosis and violence changed (from agreeing to disagreeing). …”
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Psychometric properties of the Arabic emotional and behavioral reaction to intrusions questionnaire among sample of Arabic speaking adults by Emmanuelle Awad, Diana Malaeb, Amthal Alhuwailah, Mai Helmy, Muna Barakat, Rabih Hallit, Sami El Khatib, Mohamad Rahal, Syed Arman Rabbani, Reem Alzayer, Nada H. Farrag, Rita El Hajjar, Jinan Mallouh, Souheil Hallit, Feten Fekih-Romdhane, Sahar Obeid, Rita ElHagar

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Positive associations between mean ambient temperature and involuntary admissions to psychiatric facilities by Noah L. Joore, Marte Z. van der Horst, Eric O. Noorthoorn, Jurriaan F.M. Strous, Fleur J. Vruwink, Sinan Guloksuz, Peter C. Siegmund, Jurjen J. Luykx

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New role of platelets in schizophrenia: predicting drug response by Tao Li, Wei Wei, Qiang Wang, Yamin Zhang, Wei Deng, Rui Xue, Wanjun Guo, Xiaojing Li, Hua Yu, Yanghao Zheng, Peiyan Ni, Sugai Liang, Xueyu Qi, Xueli Yu, Liansheng Zhao

“…Background Elevated platelet count (PLTc) is associated with first-episode schizophrenia and adverse outcomes in individuals with precursory psychosis. However, the impact of antipsychotic medications on PLTc and its association with symptom improvement remain unclear.Aims We aimed to investigate changes in PLTc levels following antipsychotic treatment and assess whether PLTc can predict antipsychotic responses and metabolic changes after accounting for other related variables.Methods A total of 2985 patients with schizophrenia were randomised into seven groups. …”
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A Mobile Health Intervention to Support Collaborative Decision-Making in Mental Health Care: Development and Usability by Kristin Lie Romm, Mari Skoge, Elizabeth Ann Barrett, Lars-Christian Berentzen, Dagfinn Bergsager, Pål Fugelli, Thomas Bjella, Erlend Strand Gardsjord, Kristine Kling, Sindre Hembre Kruse, Kari Jorunn Kværner, Ingrid Melle, Erlend Mork, Henrik Myhre Ihler, Eline Borger Rognli, Carmen Simonsen, Tor Gunnar Værnes, Sofie Ragnhild Aminoff

“…Thus, iTandem includes the following 8 modules, primarily based on the needs of service users and clinicians: Sleep (sleep diary), Medication (intake and side effects), Recovery (measures, including well-being and personal recovery, and exercises, including good things and personal strengths), Mood (mood diary and report of daily feelings), Psychosis (level of positive symptoms and their consequences and level of negative symptoms), Activity (goal setting and progress), Substance use (weekly use, potential triggers or strategies used to abstain), and Feedback on therapy (of individual sessions and overall rating of the past week). …”
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Proximity-based solutions for optimizing autism spectrum disorder treatment: integrating clinical and process data for personalized care by Annarita Vignapiano, Annarita Vignapiano, Francesco Monaco, Francesco Monaco, Stefania Landi, Luca Steardo, Carlo Mancuso, Claudio Pagano, Gianvito Petrillo, Alessandra Marenna, Martina Piacente, Stefano Leo, Carminia Marina Ingenito, Rossella Bonifacio, Benedetta Di Gruttola, Marco Solmi, Marco Solmi, Marco Solmi, Marco Solmi, Maria Pontillo, Giorgio Di Lorenzo, Giorgio Di Lorenzo, Alessio Fasano, Alessio Fasano, Alessio Fasano, Giulio Corrivetti, Giulio Corrivetti

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Disturbances of visual perception in non-demented patients with Parkinson’s disease by R. Timofejavaitė, V. Vilda, A. Liveikienė, R. Kaladytė-Lokominienė

“…Disturbances of visual perception are usually considered to be a complication of PD progression predicting a probability of psychosis or coexisting dementia. Visual hallucinations have multifactorial etiology and are associated with lower visual acuity, long duration of the disease, cognitive disturbances, impaired contrast sensitivity, colour discrimination, and dopaminergic medications. …”
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Neuroimaging stratification reveals the striatal vulnerability to stress as a risk for schizophrenia by Xiaoqian Ma, Nana Feng, Lena Palaniyappan, Luolong Cao, Zixin Gu, Jujiao Kang, Liu Yuan, Lijun Ouyang, Yujue Wang, Chunwang Li, Ke Jin, Xiaogang Chen, Jianfeng Feng, Ying He, Qiang Luo

“…Transcriptomic analysis of brain tissues was used to identify the biological processes associated with the brain mediation effects on the SLE-psychosis relationship. The stratified UFR-SZ subgroup with smaller right putamen had a smaller volume in the left caudate when compared to HC; this caudate volume was associated with both a higher level of SLE and more psychotic symptoms. …”
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The time has come for revising the rules of clozapine blood monitoring in Europe. A joint expert statement from the European Clozapine Task Force by Hélène Verdoux, Robert A. Bittner, Alkomiet Hasan, Mishal Qubad, Elias Wagner, Alexis Lepetit, Manuel Arrojo-Romero, Christian Bachmann, Marieke Beex-Oosterhuis, Jan Bogers, Andreja Celofiga, Dan Cohen, Domenico de Berardis, Marc de Hert, Carlos de Las Cuevas, Bjørn H. Ebdrup, Konstantinos N. Fountoulakis, Daniel Guinart, Dolores Keating, Miloslav Kopeček, John Lally, Judit Lazáry, Jurjen J. Luykx, Olalla Maronas Amigo, Espen Molden, Jimmi Nielsen, Brian O’Donoghue, Pierre Oswald, Flavian S. Radulescu, Christopher Rohde, Marina Sagud, Emilio J. Sanz, Ivona Šimunović Filipčić, Iris E. Sommer, Heidi Taipale, Jari Tiihonen, Heli Tuppurainen, Selene Veerman, Alina Wilkowska, Edoardo Spina, Peter Schulte

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Comparison of autism domains across thirty rare variant genotypesResearch in context by Nabila M.H. Ali, Samuel J.R.A. Chawner, Leila Kushan-Wells, Carrie E. Bearden, Jennifer Gladys Mulle, Rebecca M. Pollak, Raquel E. Gur, Wendy K. Chung, Michael J. Owen, Marianne B.M. van den Bree, Harriet Housby, Irene Lee, David Skuse, Jeanne Wolstencroft, William Mandy, Spiros Denaxas, Kate Baker, Lucy Raymond, Marianne van den Bree, Samuel Chawner, Jeremy Hall, Peter Holmans, Josh Hope-Bell, Danielle Le Roux, Sally Morrin, Michael Owen, Shreeya Sivakumar

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