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The effects of eicosapentaenoic acid in tardive dyskinesia: A randomized, placebo-controlled trial
(2006)
Objective: Worldwide, conventional antipsychotic medication continues to be used extensively, and tardive dyskinesia (TD) remains a serious complication. The primary objective of the present study was to compare the efficacy ...
The factor structure for the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) in recent-onset psychosis
(2003)
The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) is a widely used instrument for measuring severe psychopathology in adult patients with schizophrenia. Data, primarily on chronic patients, have been used to define factors ...
Neurological abnormalities in first-episode schizophrenia: Temporal stability and clinical and outcome correlates
(2005)
Objective: Neurological abnormalities in subjects with schizophrenia have been regarded as diagnostically non-specific and non-localising. This study assessed the temporal stability of neurological abnormalities in subjects ...
Emotional face processing deficit in schizophrenia: A replication study in a South African Xhosa population
(2006)
Schizophrenia is associated with a deficit in the recognition of negative emotions from facial expressions. The present study examined the universality of this finding by studying facial expression recognition in African ...
Efficacy and tolerability of quetiapine in poorly responsive, chronic schizophrenia
(2004)
With the notable exception of clozapine, there is at present insufficient information on the efficacy of atypical antipsychotic medications in patients with poorly responsive schizophrenia. The present study reports on the ...
Intrasexual competition and sexual selection in cooperative mammals
(2006)
In most animals, the sex that invests least in its offspring competes more intensely for access to the opposite sex and shows greater development of secondary sexual characters than the sex that invests most. However, in ...
Contribution of water pollution from inadequate sanitation and housing quality to diarrheal disease in low-cost housing settlements of Cape Town, South Africa
(2011)
Objectives: We investigated the effects of failing sanitation, poor housing conditions, and fecal pollution in runoff water on the health-particularly the incidence of diarrheal disease-of residents of low-cost housing ...
The zona pellucida-induced acrosome reaction of human spermatozoa involves extracellular signal-regulated kinase activationThe zona pellucida-induced acrosome reaction of human spermatozoa involves extracellular signal-regulated kinase activation
(2001)
Extracellular signal-regulated kinases(ERKs), belonging to the family of mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs), are cytoplasmic and nuclear serine/threonine kinases involved in the signal transduction of several ...
Predictors of response to pharmacotherapy in social anxiety disorder: An analysis of 3 placebo-controlled paroxetine trials
(2002)
Background: There is increasing evidence that patients with social anxiety disorder (social phobia) respond to treatment with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). Response rates to SSRIs in social anxiety ...
Hoarding in obsessive-compulsive disorder: Clinical and genetic correlates
(2005)
Objective: Hoarding may be an important symptom dimension in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Hoarding in OCD has been associated with poor insight, poorer response to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors than other ...