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| G FoussiasSummaryAffiliation: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Country: Canada Publications
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Negative symptoms in schizophrenia: avolition and Occam's razorGeorge Foussias
Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Schizophr Bull 36:359-69. 2010..Further exploration and clarification of this core deficit will ultimately enhance our neurobiological understanding of schizophrenia, as well as strategies that may improve outcome...
Motivational deficits as the central link to functioning in schizophrenia: a pilot studyG Foussias
Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Schizophr Res 115:333-7. 2009..This suggests that motivational deficits are the central link between negative symptoms and functional impairment in schizophrenia...
Antipsychotics and schizophrenia: from efficacy and effectiveness to clinical decision-makingGeorge Foussias
Schizophrenia Program, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
Can J Psychiatry 55:117-25. 2010....
Prediction of longitudinal functional outcomes in schizophrenia: the impact of baseline motivational deficitsG Foussias
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, and Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, 250 College St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T 1R8
Schizophr Res 132:24-7. 2011..These findings further suggest a fundamental role for motivational deficits in predicting functional outcomes in schizophrenia...
Progress in defining optimal treatment outcome in schizophreniaGary Remington
Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
CNS Drugs 24:9-20. 2010..To this end, the field has now embraced a recovery model that is seen as a process, multidimensional and individualized, rather than dichotomous and symptom driven...
Long-acting injectable antipsychotics in the treatment of schizophrenia: their role in relapse preventionOfer Agid
Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Expert Opin Pharmacother 11:2301-17. 2010..However, nonadherence with antipsychotic treatment is a significant issue, with estimates as high as 90%...
Where to position clozapine: re-examining the evidenceOfer Agid
Schizophrenia Program, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario
Can J Psychiatry 55:677-84. 2010..To review clozapine's position in treatment algorithms for schizophrenia...
