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Filter by:This study is a 12-week randomized-controlled clinical trial. It will be planned to conduct in a total of 120 male and female subjects from the Department of Psychiatry at Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital. Eligible subjects will be psychiatric patients, aged between 20-65 years old, who have psychiatric diagnosis of schizophrenia and fulfill the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The intervention with aerobic walking programs will be initiated after randomization for patients who continue their usual treatment. Subjects will be enrolled for 12 weeks aerobic walking treatment and randomly assigned to (1) treatment-as-usual, (2) treatment-as-usual plus aerobic walking. We will measure the treatment response to clarify the effect of aerobic walking in patients with schizophrenia. This study is being performed to investigate the possibly beneficial effects of aerobic walking on cognitive function and energy metabolites in schizophrenia.
Impact of stigma on the empathy and quality of life of people with schizophrenic disorders and their siblings.
Sound and Vision: A collaboration between service-users, artists and the public to explore the lived experience of hallucinations
Veterans with mental illness face challenges with community reintegration, including achieving vocational success, attaining their educational goals and going back to school, and maintaining a high quality of life. VA Mental Health Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Programs, Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Recovery Centers and other mental health treatment programs are designed to help Veterans overcome these barriers, but cognitive impairment often seen in Veterans with mental illness limits gains from these settings. Cognitive remediation interventions can be helpful, but they are either "one-size fits all," and thus may not be useful for all Veterans with mental illness, or are too narrow in scope, focusing on specific mental illnesses, limiting generalizability. This project will test whether an objective neurophysiological biomarker, mismatch negativity (MMN), can better match the "right" Veteran to the "right" cognitive remediation treatment regardless of their specific mental health diagnosis.
The study aims to test both the effectiveness and implementation strategy of a WeChat-based integrative family intervention (WIFI) to support family caregiving of schizophrenia in China.
Five collaborating sites in France will study the broad spectrum of schizophrenia in children and adolescents. Patients will be studied with diagnostic interviews, developmental histories, dimensional clinical ratings, comprehensive cognitive assessments, neuroimaging and DNA (copy number variant) analyses (in families and patients who agree), and follow-up of course of illness, cognitive status and treatment response to specific antipsychotic drugs. The goal of the study is to test a prior hypothesis about clinical subgroups in this population and to test whether these subgroups predict antipsychotic medication response.
A clinical study to investigate the effect of an investigational drug in adults with schizophrenia by using Electrocardiogram (Picture of the electrical action of the heart). This study is accepting male and female participants between 18 years old -65 years old who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia. This study will be conducted in approximately 7 locations in the US. The study will last approximately 7 weeks.
Single-blind, randomized controlled trial of normobaric oxygen therapy among individuals with first-episode psychosis: Effects on symptomatology and cognition.
The microbiota plays a vital role in the two-way communication between the gastrointestinal tract and the central nervous system (CNS), articulated as the microbiota-intestine-brain axis. This function provides sufficient evidence to establish a causal relationship between numerous neuropsychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia. Besides, the microbiota modulation through the dietary pattern is related to the improvement of the physical and psychopathological health of patients. In this sense, the use of psychobiotics (prebiotics and probiotics with nutraceutical action) highlights. This research will be aimed to test the efficacy of prebiotic dietary modulation in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, attending to the impact in nutritional and cardio-metabolic conditions. In this sense, two-arms, double-blind, randomized in balanced blocks clinical trial of six months of intervention, will be developed in a group of 50 individuals (25 for the intervention group (IG) and 25 for the control group). First, an initial group session will be held to present the purpose of the research, as well as each of the relevant aspects during its development. Similarly, certain focus groups will be established periodically to redefine and guide the improvement of the development of the investigation, ensuring adequate compliance with the study after the implementation of the diet and nutrition education program. The dietary education will be designed and supervised by qualified personnel with recognized competencies for this type of intervention (nurses and dietitians). The CG will be made up of those participants who receive conventional dietary advice individually in serial consultations. On the other hand, in the IG, this intervention will be characterized by the establishment of an individual program of dietetic-nutritional education with high prebiotic and probiotic content. During the development of the study, data will be collected on the psychopathological state (PANSS and PSP scales), and blood test (hemogram, lipid profile, etc.). Measures will be taken at the beginning (basal), at three and six months. The estimation of intestinal microbiota and the usual nutritional pattern will also be assessed at the beginning and six months, using a stool test and a validated Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ), respectively. To evaluate the degree of adherence, participants in the IG will fill a specific weekly record of the main dishes/food consumed. At least, anthropometric parameters will also be analyzed monthly (BMI, blood pressure, heart rate, abdominal perimeter).
The regions which are assumed to underlie the pathophysiology of schizophrenia, namely hypoactivity at the prefrontal level and pathological hyperactivity of the associative regions of the language located in the left temporoparietal region. To assess the efficacy of tDCS on auditory hallucinations, the investigators performs an randomized double blind versus placebo trial. In each arms patients will receive two tDCS sessions a day during two weeks.