Schizophrenia - Classification
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

'Salience syndrome' replaces 'schizophrenia' in DSM-V and ICD-11: psychiatry's evidence-based entry into the 21st century?

30 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVE: Japan was the first country to abandon the 19th century term of 'mind-splitting disease' (schizophrenia). Revisions of DSM and ICD are forthcoming. Should the rest of the world follow Japan's example? METHOD: A comprehensive literature ... Read more...

Susceptibility locus on chromosome 1q23-25 for a schizophrenia subtype resembling deficit schizophrenia identified by latent class analysis.

29 Sep 2009 CONTEXT: Identifying susceptibility genes for schizophrenia may be complicated by phenotypic heterogeneity, with some evidence suggesting that phenotypic heterogeneity reflects genetic heterogeneity. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the heritability and ... Read more...

Psychopathological assessment of schizophrenia: relevance for classification.

30 Jul 2009 Considerable effort has been focused on updating the clinical aspects of psychiatric classifications based on recent progress in the field of neurobiology. In this article, recent developments in the primary assessment methods within clinical ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Schizophrenia - Classification'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• 'Salience syndrome' replaces 'schizophrenia' in DSM-V and ICD-11: psychiatry's evidence-based entry into the 21st century? 30 Oct 2009
• Susceptibility locus on chromosome 1q23-25 for a schizophrenia subtype resembling deficit schizophrenia identified by latent class analysis. 29 Sep 2009
• Psychopathological assessment of schizophrenia: relevance for classification. 30 Jul 2009
• Diagnosis of schizophrenia in latino populations: a comparison of direct interview and consensus based multi-source methods. 29 Jun 2009
• Comparative analysis of soft neurological signs in positive and negative subtype of schizophrenia. 30 May 2009
• Time to change concepts and terminology. 30 May 2009
• The psychosis continuum and categorical versus dimensional diagnostic approaches. 30 May 2009
• Classification of schizophrenia with spectro-temporo-spatial MEG patterns in working memory. 18 May 2009
• [Classification of psychoses. History, present and future] 2 May 2009
• Are new drugs for schizophrenia better than old ones? 9 Apr 2009
• Dissecting the many genetic faces of schizophrenia. 30 Mar 2009
• Psychosis genetics: modeling the relationship between schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and mixed (or "schizoaffective") psychoses. 25 Mar 2009
• The schizotaxic self: phenotyping the silent predisposition to schizophrenia spectrum disorders. 15 Mar 2009
• Attentional modulation of perceptual organisation in schizophrenia. 27 Feb 2009
• Psychotic symptoms as a continuum between normality and pathology. 27 Feb 2009
• A salience dysregulation syndrome. 30 Jan 2009
• Common genetic determinants of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in Swedish families: a population-based study. 15 Jan 2009
• Treatment response in psychotic patients classified according to social and clinical needs, drug side effects, and previous treatment; a method to identify functional remission. 14 Jan 2009
• [Clinical psychopathological research on late-onset schizophrenia--mainly patients with schizophrenia from a hospital psychiatric ward] 30 Dec 2008
• [Development of schizophrenia-spectrum psychoses caused by psychotraumatic events] 30 Dec 2008

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Technical information about 'Schizophrenia'

Definition: A severe emotional disorder of psychotic depth characteristically marked by a retreat from reality with delusion formation, HALLUCINATIONS, emotional disharmony, and regressive behavior.

Descriptor UI: D012559

Alternative terms: Schizophrenia; Schizophrenias; Dementia Praecox; Schizophrenic Disorders; Disorder, Schizophrenic; Disorders, Schizophrenic; Schizophrenic Disorder;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.700.750;

Technical Notes: general or unspecified; prefer specifics