research update

Mass psychogenic illness or Mass Hysteria is a not a very rare phenomenon anymore. It is probably more  common than the reported incidences and imposes a significant financial burden and unexpected management  difficulties for the emergency…

Depression is a global disease causing the worldwide burden of increasing disability and death. Most cases of mild to moderate depression are usually not evident to caregivers, relatives, and even health workers. Different treatment…

What is Perfectionist Self Presentation Scale (PSPS)? Perfectionist self-presentation scale (PSPS) is a 27-item multidimensional scale that is used to assess an individual’s need to appear perfect to others (PSPS; Hewitt et al., 2003). It…

Major depressive disorder (MDD) affects around 20% of some point during the lifetime of an individual. For many years the underlying causes of depression have evolved, although this understanding is incomplete and has left many aspects of…

Antipsychotic drugs have been used in patients with chronic schizophrenia for a very long time, but the relative effectiveness has not been explored even with widespread use. Particularly, there exists very little literature describing the…

Just like other mental illnesses recovery from schizophrenia is widely discussed and this made the baseline for this study with focus on assessing the relationship between personal recovery and prediction variables.  Particularly, the study…

Oral antipsychotic therapy has been characterized by nonadherence and partial adherence in patients with schizophrenia. The electronic Schizophrenia Treatment Adherence Registry (e-STAR) aimed at assessing outcomes of Risperidone…

A study on development of schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) in patients diagnosed with substance-induced psychoses (SIP) was carried out on 18,478 Finnish inpatients. The primary aim of the study was to investigate the rate of SIP…

Comprehensive schizophrenia treatment is subject to a number of considerations, with the most important being enhanced work function. Although various studies have explored the factors influencing patients’ performance at work, little is…

Schizophrenia is a deliberating mental disorder that changes the way a person thinks, acts, expresses emotions, perceives reality and relates to others in the social context. Although it affects equally men and women but onset is later…