Hypothalamic-hypophysial-adrenal function in acute and chronic schizophrenic patients and the role of the frontal lobe cortex to the adrenal system

SYNOPSISNeuropsychological tests of frontal lobe functions were undertaken in 46 chronic schizophrenic patients who were also rated for movement disorders. Tardive dyskinesia was found to have significant associations with most of these psychological tests. The possible mechanisms are discussed within the context of known neostriatal psychological functions.

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The Role of the Father with Chronic Schizophrenic Patients: A Study in Group Therapy

Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal ◽

10.1177/070674376300800306 ◽

1963 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 190-203 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Guy Da Silva

Keyword(s):

Group Therapy ◽

Chronic Schizophrenic ◽

Schizophrenic Patients

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The Clinical Effects on a Population of Chronic Schizophrenic Patients of Administrative Changes in Hospital

The British Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1192/bjp.113.502.959 ◽

1967 ◽

Vol 113 (502) ◽

pp. 959-971 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

F. J. J. Letemendia ◽

A. D. Harris ◽

P. J. A. Willems

Keyword(s):

Mental Hospital ◽

Community Services ◽

Clinical Effects ◽

Chronic Schizophrenic ◽

Schizophrenic Patients ◽

Discharged Patients ◽

Hospital Population ◽

Phenothiazine Drugs

The factors leading to the fall in the mental hospital population which started in England in 1954 are not fully agreed. By some, the introduction of the phenothiazine drugs was held to be of first importance: other writers have stressed the role of social and administrative factors—of energetic rehabilitation and discharge policies together with measures to provide community services for discharged patients.

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Correlation of Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia with Frontal Lobe Parameters on Magnetic Resonance Imaging

The British Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1192/bjp.159.1.130 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 159 (1) ◽

pp. 130-134 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

P. Williamson ◽

D. Pelz ◽

H. Merskey ◽

S. Morrison ◽

P. Conlon

Keyword(s):

Magnetic Resonance Imaging ◽

Magnetic Resonance ◽

Tardive Dyskinesia ◽

Frontal Lobe ◽

Negative Symptoms ◽

Positive Symptoms ◽

Resonance Imaging ◽

Chronic Schizophrenic ◽

Schizophrenic Patients

Among 24 chronic schizophrenic patients, the 10 with high ratings for negative symptoms had significantly higher left-frontal: temporal–cortical T2 ratios. This finding was unrelated to age, dose of medication, length of illness or handedness. No T1 or T2 changes were found to be associated with positive symptoms or tardive dyskinesia in the regions examined.

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Schizophrenic Syndromes and Frontal Lobe Performance

The British Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1192/bjp.158.3.340 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 158 (3) ◽

pp. 340-345 ◽

Cited By ~ 317

Author(s):

Peter F. Liddle ◽

Danielle L. Morris

Keyword(s):

Frontal Lobe ◽

Neuropsychological Tests ◽

Mental Activity ◽

Chronic Schizophrenic ◽

Inappropriate Response ◽

Frontal Lobe Impairment ◽

Schizophrenic Patients ◽

The Subject

A battery of neuropsychological tests sensitive to frontal lobe impairment was administered to 43 chronic schizophrenic patients to delineate the abnormality of mental processing associated with the syndromes of psychomotor poverty and disorganisation, which had been identified in a previous study of the segregation of schizophrenic symptoms. Psychomotor poverty was found to be associated with slowness of mental activity, including slowness of generating words. The disorganisation syndrome was associated with impairment in tests in which the subject is required to inhibit an established but inappropriate response.

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The use of computerised tomography in mental handicap patients

Psychiatric Bulletin ◽

10.1192/pb.16.10.616 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 16 (10) ◽

pp. 616-618

Author(s):

S. K. Lekh ◽

B. K. Puri ◽

I. Singh

Keyword(s):

Psychiatric Disorders ◽

Research Tool ◽

Clinical Neurology ◽

Computerised Tomography ◽

Chronic Schizophrenic ◽

Mental Handicap ◽

Schizophrenic Patients

Since its inception (Hounsfield, 1973), computerised tomography (CT) has become an invaluable diagnostic and research tool, particularly in clinical neurology and neurosurgery. Clinically, CT has proved useful in differentiating between ‘functional’ and ‘organic’ psychiatric disorders where it is particularly helpful in the diagnosis of potentially treatable organic disorders. For example, Owens et al (1980) found clinically unsuspected intracranial pathology in 12 of 136 chronic schizophrenic patients examined by CT and Roberts & Lishman (1984) found diagnosis, management, and/or prognosis were influenced in approximately 12% of cases referred by psychiatrists for CT imagining.

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A NOTE ON THE RELATION OF SOMATOTYPE TO OUTCOME AFTER PHENOTHIAZINE THERAPY IN CHRONIC SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENTS

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease ◽

10.1097/00005053-196309000-00004 ◽

1963 ◽

Vol 137 (3) ◽

pp. 242-245

Author(s):

DANIEL ADELSON ◽

ANN TURNER

Keyword(s):

Chronic Schizophrenic ◽

Schizophrenic Patients

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The Role of the Occupational Therapist in a Community Mental Health Centre in Greece

British Journal of Occupational Therapy ◽

10.1177/030802268604901205 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 49 (12) ◽

pp. 389-391 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

I Tsipra ◽

P Voutsina ◽

E Charitaki ◽

V Tomaras ◽

A Kapsali ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Community Mental Health ◽

Health Centre ◽

Occupational Therapist ◽

Community Mental Health Centre ◽

Rehabilitation Unit ◽

Care Programme ◽

Mental Health Centre ◽

Schizophrenic Patients

This article deals with a developing rehabilitation unit for mentally ill people, mostly chronic schizophrenic patients, which has been integrated into the Community Mental Health Centre of two Athenian boroughs. The unit includes a day care programme, a vocational training workshop and a social therapeutic club. All these programmes have been developed for the first time in Greece at a certain community level. The authors describe the rationale and the structure of the rehabilitation unit and the role of the occupational therapist.

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