Mental disorders are highly prevalent and cause considerable suffering and disease
burden. To compound this public health problem, many individuals with psychiatric …

OBJECTIVE: The duration of untreated psychosis may influence response to treatment,
reflecting a potentially malleable progressive pathological process. The authors reviewed …

Objective: Individuals at high risk for schizophrenia may benefit from early intervention, but
few validated risk predictors are available. Genetic profiling is one approach to risk …

Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder characterised by fundamental disturbances in
thinking, perception and emotions. More than 100 years of research have not been able to …

How are we to make sense of madness and psychosis? For most of us the words conjure up
images from television and newspapers of seemingly random, meaningless violence. It is …

Context People experiencing possible prodromal symptoms of psychosis have a very high
risk of developing the disorder, but it is not possible to predict, on the basis of their …

Objective: The presence of cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia has been well
documented, but questions remain about whether there are relationships between this …

Objective Patients with chronic schizophrenia are characterized by deficits in identifying
facial expressions of emotion, and these deficits relate to impaired social and occupational …

Background. The duration of untreated psychosis has been postulated to be a predictor of
clinical outcome in schizophrenia. Although several prospective studies support the …

OBJECTIVE: The authors examined the relationship of neurocognitive function with duration
of untreated psychosis, premorbid illness factors, and clinical symptoms to determine …