Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness that causes major functional impairment. Current
pharmacologic treatments are inadequate, particularly for addressing negative and cognitive …

Background In 1987, Kay et al published the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale
(PANSS) and the PANSS manual to address the limitations of existing instruments for …

Background The pathophysiological mechanisms of aggression are manifold and they may
closely interconnect. Current study aimed to determine the gut microbiota and its …

Background The relationship between schizophrenia and violence is complex. The aim of
this multicentre case–control study was to examine and compare the characteristics of a …

Abstract Background: Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) is a curriculum-based
rehabilitation program for people with severe mental illness with the short-term aim of …

Our previous study data suggested that the synapse-associated protein 97 (SAP97)
rs3915512 polymorphism is significantly related to clinical performance in schizophrenia …

Abstract The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) is a well-established
assessment tool for measuring symptom severity in schizophrenia. Researchers and …

The clinical presentation of patients with schizophrenia has long been described to be very
heterogeneous. Coherent symptom profiles can probably be directly derived from behavioral …

Questionnaires that assess symptoms of schizophrenia patients undergo strict statistical
validation, often using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). CFA allows testing the existence of …

Among forensic patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders, the association between
symptomatology and violence is still not entirely clear in literature, especially because …