BACKGROUND: Social cognition is essential for daily functioning, as it influences quality of life, return to work, and interpersonal communication. While schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have been the paradigmatic conditions in which ...
BACKGROUND: Anhedonia, a transdiagnostic feature common to both Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and Schizophrenia (SCZ), is characterized by abnormalities in hedonic experience. Previous studies have used machine learning (ML) algorithms without focu...
Schizophrenia is a complex neuropsychiatric disorder with cognitive deficits and systemic physiological disturbances, including emerging links to hepatic dysfunction via the gut-liver-brain axis. Despite growing evidence, the integration of liver fun...
Motor activity alterations are key symptoms of psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia. Actigraphy, a non-invasive monitoring method, shows promise in early identification. This study characterizes Positive Schizotypy Factor (PSF) and Chronic Schizo...
Anhedonia is one of the core features of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia and can be extremely burdensome. Our study applied resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)-based support vector regression (SVR) to predict anhedonia i...
Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods have shown promise for the assessment of formal thought disorder, a hallmark feature of schizophrenia in which disturbances to the structure, organization, or coherence of thought can manifest as disordered o...
Sexual abuse : a journal of research and treatment
Sep 11, 2023
Forensic psychiatric populations commonly contain a subset of persons with schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) who have committed sex offenses. A comprehensive delineation of the features that distinguish persons with SSD who have committed sex of...
International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
Jun 22, 2022
The link between schizophrenia and homicide has long been the subject of research with significant impact on mental health policy, clinical practice, and public perception of people with psychiatric disorders. The present study investigates factors c...
INTRODUCTION: Both the pharmacological characteristics of blonanserin and its related small sample size studies suggest that blonanserin could alleviate social and cognitive dysfunctions in patients with schizophrenia. However, no large sample size s...
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the correlation between gaze avoidance and psychopathology in patients with schizophrenia through eye movement measurements in real-life interpersonal situations.
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