Cigarette smoking is strongly associated with psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia.
For several decades it was assumed that the relationship could be explained by reverse …

Schizophrenia (SZ) is a complex neuropsychiatric disorder, affecting 1% of the world
population. Long-standing clinical observations and molecular data have pointed to a …

Background Public education efforts to address and reduce potential harms from cannabis
use in Arab countries are either slow or inexistent, and do not follow the steadily increasing …

Objective: Muscarinic receptor dysfunction has been suggested to play an important role in
the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. Recently, it has also become clear that immune …

This study aimed to analyze treatment guidelines of 12 SEE countries to identify non-
pharmacological interventions recommended for schizophrenia, explore the evidence base …

Background: Non-pharmacological treatment for schizophrenia includes educational,
psychotherapeutic, social, and physical interventions. Despite growing importance of these …

In patients with psychosis, rates of tobacco smoking and childhood trauma are significantly
higher compared to the general population. Childhood trauma has been proposed as a risk …

The role of social factors in the development and course of psychotic disorders has been
increasingly acknowledged in recent decades. The present study examines the role of …

Cannabis is one of the most widely used recreational drugs among people with clinical
psychosis, after nicotine and alcohol. There has been a debate in psychiatry about whether …

Introduction Schizophrenia is a chronic, complex and severe psychiatric disorder affecting
millions of people every year and inflicting different costs to the individual, family and …