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Schizophrenia has been conceptualized as a biologically caused mental disease. However, its causes and pathophysiology have not yet been clearly defined. Unlike physical diseases that are defined using specific biomarkers,...
Objectives: The optimal duration of maintenance treatment for patients with first-episode schizophrenia (FES) remains unclear. We examined the first antipsychotic treatment duration and its association with re-initiation of treatment using...
Objective The aim of this study was to investigate the association between blood levels of tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) and cognitive impairments among elderly individuals.
Methods Peripheral concentration...
OBJECTIVES: Several studies have delineated the relationship between hearing disturbances and the prevalence or characteristics of psychotic symptoms; however, most of those studies focused on psychiatric patients and not general...
Objective Diffusion tensor imaging has been extensively applied to schizophrenia research. In this study, we counted the number of
abnormal brain regions with altered diffusion measures in patients with schizophrenia to...