Schizophrenia - Therapy
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

A systematic review of the international published literature relating to quality of institutional care for people with longer term mental health problems.

5 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: A proportion of people with mental health problems require longer term care in a psychiatric or social care institution. However, there are no internationally agreed quality standards for institutional care and no method to assess common ... Read more...

Combination of electroconvulsive therapy with skin graft surgery for a schizophrenic patient with burns.

30 Aug 2009 We report on the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) on a patient with schizophrenia immediately after skin graft surgery for extensive burns. The patient was 22 years old and had been burned in more than 33% of his body because of a suicide ... Read more...

Successful use of donepezil in treatment of cognitive impairment caused by maintenance electroconvulsive therapy: a case report.

30 Aug 2009 Cognitive deficits are commonly associated with maintenance electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Treatment of these cognitive deficits is important but difficult. Cholinergic pathways are involved in these side effects, and donepezil, a cholinesterase ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Schizophrenia - Therapy'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Schizophrenia and NICE: all quiet on the community front? 30 Oct 2009
• Infection, inflammation, and mental illness. The body's immune response to infectious agents may imperil the brain. 29 Sep 2009
• A systematic review of the international published literature relating to quality of institutional care for people with longer term mental health problems. 5 Sep 2009
• Combination of electroconvulsive therapy with skin graft surgery for a schizophrenic patient with burns. 30 Aug 2009
• Successful use of donepezil in treatment of cognitive impairment caused by maintenance electroconvulsive therapy: a case report. 30 Aug 2009
• Schizophrenia. 20 Aug 2009
• Maintenance electroconvulsive therapy for comorbid pharmacotherapy-refractory obsessive-compulsive and schizoaffective disorder. 10 Aug 2009
• The evolution of cognitive behavior therapy for schizophrenia: current practice and recent developments. 4 Aug 2009
• Molecular mechanisms underlying glutamatergic dysfunction in schizophrenia: therapeutic implications. 2 Aug 2009
• Cognitive behavioral therapy of negative symptoms. 30 Jul 2009
• Cochrane Reviews of non-medication-based psychotherapeutic and other interventions for schizophrenia, psychosis, and bipolar disorder: A systematic literature review. 30 Jul 2009
• Analysis of the creation of 'emptiness', of 'nothingness', in certain types of psychosis. 30 Jul 2009
• Community treatment orders and competence to consent. 30 Jul 2009
• Social disinterest attitudes and group cognitive-behavioral social skills training for functional disability in schizophrenia. 21 Jul 2009
• Caring for people with depression or with schizophrenia: are the consequences different? 19 Jul 2009
• Multimodal cognitive therapy: combining treatments that bypass cognitive deficits and deal with reasoning and appraisal biases. 18 Jul 2009
• Cognitive behavior therapy for psychosis: where have we been and where are we going? 15 Jul 2009
• Analysis of clinical uncertainties by health professionals and patients: an example from mental health. 8 Jul 2009
• Satisfaction with mental health services in a Latin American community of carers of patients with schizophrenia. 5 Jul 2009
• Predictors of outcome in brief cognitive behavior therapy for schizophrenia. 29 Jun 2009

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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