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WITHDRAWN: Cognitive behaviour therapy versus other psychosocial treatments for schizophrenia.

Jones C, Hacker D, Meaden A, Cormac I, Irving CB

School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK, B15 2TT.

Published 14 April 2011 in Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 4: CD000524.
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Articles on Schizophrenia published 3 March 2011:

Long-acting risperidone and oral antipsychotics in unstable schizophrenia.   N Engl J Med, 364(9): 842-51.

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Long-acting risperidone and oral antipsychotics in unstable schizophrenia.   N Engl J Med, 364(9): 842-51.

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Long-acting risperidone and oral antipsychotics in unstable schizophrenia.   N Engl J Med, 364(9): 842-51.

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Articles on Schizophrenia published 24 February 2011:

Negative symptoms and poor insight as predictors of the similarity between client and therapist ratings of therapeutic alliance in cognitive behavior therapy for patients with schizophrenia.   J Nerv Ment Dis, 199(3): 191-5.

Recent studies have found that clients with schizophrenia rate therapeutic alliance more highly than therapists. Unclear is whether there are clinical characteristics which predict the degree of difference in client and therapist ratings. To explore this, we correlated client and therapist ratings of therapeutic alliance with baseline assessments of positive negative, and disorganized symptoms and awareness of need for treatment. Participants were 40 adults with schizophrenia enrolled in a ... [Abstract] [Full-text]

Cognitive and clinical factors are associated with service engagement in early-phase schizophrenia spectrum disorders.   J Nerv Ment Dis, 199(3): 176-82.

We examined how neurocognition contributes to adherence with treatment in early-phase schizophrenia spectrum disorders, in context with clinical symptoms. A total of 148 patients were assessed with a broad neurocognitive test battery and clinical assessments including the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS); service engagement was measured by the Service Engagement Scale (SES). Patients' ability to conceptualize (measure: Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence similarities) ... [Abstract] [Full-text]

Articles on Schizophrenia published 1 February 2011:

Olfactory hallucinations in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder: a phenomenological survey.   Psychiatry Res, 185(3): 321-7.

Olfactory hallucinations (OHs), so it has been argued, are prognostic of a poorer outcome, are unpleasant, and cannot be well explained within current theoretical accounts of hallucinations. We examined these and related issues by conducting structured interviews with 51 participants who experienced OHs and who were previously diagnosed with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. We found no relationship between disease severity measures and type or frequency of OHs. As with prior research, ... [Abstract] [Full-text]

Decreased self-reported arousal in schizophrenia during aversive picture viewing compared to bipolar disorder and healthy controls.   Psychiatry Res, 185(3): 309-14.

Both schizophrenia (SCZ) and bipolar disorder (BD) are associated with disturbances in emotion processing. Previous studies suggest that patients with SCZ assess unpleasant pictures as less arousing than healthy controls (HC), while patients with BD assess neutral pictures as more arousing than HC. No previous studies have investigated whether there is a difference in emotional response across all three groups. Our aim was to explore whether there was a difference in the evaluation of valence ... [Abstract] [Full-text]

Ethnicity and symptom expression in patients with acute schizophrenia.   Psychiatry Res, 185(3): 453-5.

Chinese patients have been largely ignored in the literature examining ethnic differences in schizophrenia. This study examined demographics and symptom profiles of Euro-, African-, Chinese-American, and Latino inpatients with schizophrenia. Chinese-American patients had fewer symptoms, hospitalizations, and least amount of education compared to other groups. Cultural and clinical implications are discussed. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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