Measuring quality of life in patients with schizophrenia: an update

AG Awad, LNP Voruganti - Pharmacoeconomics, 2012 - Springer
In 1997, we published a review in Pharmaco Economics about quality of life (QOL)
measurement in patients with schizophrenia. The objective of this article is to provide an …

The involvement of the NMDA receptor D-serine/glycine site in the pathophysiology and treatment of schizophrenia

V Labrie, JC Roder - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2010 - Elsevier
Hypofunction of the N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) has been implicated in the
pathophysiology of schizophrenia. The NMDAR contains a d-serine/glycine site on the NR1 …

Health related quality of life among people with mental illness: The role of socio-clinical characteristics and level of functional disability

S Defar, Y Abraham, Y Reta, B Deribe… - Frontiers in Public …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background People with mental illness (PWMI) have declining health related quality of life
(HRQoL), which is frequently equivalent to or greater than that of medical disorders …

Quality of life, self-stigma, and hope in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: a cross-sectional study

K Vrbova, J Prasko, M Ociskova… - Neuropsychiatric …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Goals The aim of this study was to explore the quality of life, self-stigma, personality traits,
and hope in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Patients and methods A total of …

Thinking glutamatergically: changing concepts of schizophrenia based upon changing neurochemical models

J Kantrowitz, D Javitt - Clinical schizophrenia & related …, 2010 - meridian.allenpress.com
Clinical concepts of mental illness have always been modulated by underlying theoretical
considerations. For the past fifty years, schizophrenia has been considered primarily a …

Validity of subjective versus objective quality of life assessment in people with schizophrenia

KP Hayhurst, JA Massie, G Dunn, SW Lewis, RJ Drake - BMC psychiatry, 2014 - Springer
Abstract Background Quality of life (QoL) is considered an important outcome in health
research. It can be rated by the patient, or by an external assessor. We wished to identify the …

[HTML][HTML] Impaired social and role function in ultra-high risk for psychosis and first-episode schizophrenia: its relations with negative symptoms

SJ Lee, KR Kim, SY Lee, SK An - Psychiatry Investigation, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective Psychosocial dysfunction was a nettlesome problem of schizophrenia even in their
prodromal phase as well as in their first-episode. In addition, its relations with …

Quality of life and its predictors in people with schizophrenia

M Tomotake - The Journal of Medical Investigation, 2011 - jstage.jst.go.jp
The author reviewed measurement of quality of life (QOL) of schizophrenia patients and the
clinical factors related to their QOL. As schizophrenia patients were thought to be unable to …

Unmet needs in the management of schizophrenia

F Torres-González, I Ibanez-Casas… - Neuropsychiatric …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Studies on unmet needs during the last decades have played a significant role in the
development and dissemination of evidence-based community practices for persistent …

Quality of life and cognitive dysfunction in people with schizophrenia

Y Ueoka, M Tomotake, T Tanaka, Y Kaneda… - Progress in Neuro …, 2011 - Elsevier
The main purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between quality of
life (QOL) and cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia. Subjects were 61 stabilized …