M V Seeman

..The conclusion for our time is that the new and seemingly expedient need always to be questioned. If nothing else, the paper reviews an important era in the history of our profession...

..The increasing shift toward outpatient rather than inpatient drug trials may help to increase the proportion of women...

..These preliminary results provide support for the benefits of a group intervention designed to enhance self-concept and to minimize the engulfing effects of illness...

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..To determine the current outcome of schizophrenia, with mortality rate as the outcome measure...

..To update knowledge in these areas, a summary of the recent qualitative and quantitative literature was undertaken...

..Although schizophrenia does not define who a person is, the diagnosis and its implications are important and need to be shared with prospective marriage partners...

..To explore the meaning of taking antipsychotic medication in a population with schizophrenia...

..Antipsychotic treatment may need to be modified and cardiac and metabolic health indices closely monitored...

..To better understand premenstrual exacerbations of schizophrenia in women and weigh treatment options...

..should we be "mainstreaming" them, equipping them in situ with the skills necessary to navigate the larger social world? Should we even be considering the welfare of future generations, or is this beyond psychiatry's ken?..

..Current research into psychotic illness is beginning to analyze results for men and women separately and greater emphasis on qualitative methods has allowed the experiences of women patients to be documented...

..Clinicians must choose antipsychotic medications carefully and monitor for sedative effects whenever the patient has important responsibilities that require the maintenance of vigilance...

..Estrogen agonists are potential therapeutic agents but need to be proven safe, and the timing of administration may be crucial. This article examines what is known about estrogen and the development of schizophrenia...

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..The paper makes recommendations for clinicians, advocates, patients, and employers...

..This case benefited from prompt attention and has led to practical recommendations for psychiatric clinicians...

..The objective of this study is to outline the preventive possibilities of a service targeted to women with schizophrenia...

..The health burden of antipsychotic medication is well known, but the disproportionate effect on women as compared with men is underappreciated...

..Expanding on their existing role as caregivers, mothers of the mentally ill are evolving into auxiliary therapists...

..Many reports from European countries suggest that acute episodes of psychosis are more frequent among immigrants from the Caribbean than among their non-immigrant peers...

..Many antipsychotic drugs used to treat schizophrenia can cause amenorrhea in a significant proportion of women. The overall impact of this side effect has been little studied...

..Long-lasting contraceptive methods, such as intrauterine devices, progesterone depot injections, or tubal ligation are reasonable options for women having no wish to further expand their families...

..Men and women with schizophrenia suffer not only from their illness but also from the side effects of their medications...

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..To record risk factors for breast cancer in women with schizophrenia and recommend preventive actions...

..It is important to investigate sleep disorders in schizophrenia. They are not rare and may contribute to behavior that increases the stigma and isolation of individuals with schizophrenia...

..Whereas attendance at a rave triggered illness, the healing session, sanctioned by her family and taking place in their midst, resulted in healing...

..The conclusion of the paper is that, as in oncology, revealing a serious psychiatric diagnosis is emotionally difficult for both physician and patient; guidelines help, but individualization is essential...

..Therefore, as perspectives shift and the ground moves beneath us, the psychiatric profession needs to anchor itself firmly in the stories our patients tell us...

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..The purpose of this communication is to alert psychiatrists to the difficulties of translating results of group difference obtained from large, randomized clinical trials to the treatment of individual patients...

..The goal of this review is to aid clinicians with ethical issues arising in the treatment of women who suffer from psychosis...

..Effective strategies old people use are studied and valued. This is in marked contrast with the psychiatric literature that pathologizes the compensatory strategies used in schizophrenia...

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..The aim of this article is to offer recommendations and rationale for gender-specific antipsychotic treatment...

..The direct effect of female menopause on illness severity was not possible to gauge in this study, but alterations in hormones may have played a part in responsivity to family and social loss...

..To undertake a selective review of the epidemiology, etiology, and treatment of tardive dyskinesia (TD), with emphasis on the potential influence of estrogen in its expression...

..The schizophrenic patients scored lower on the Feelings, Values and Actions facets of O than did the unipolar and bipolar patients. The unipolar patients scored higher on A than the schizophrenic patients...

..The aim is to expand Canadian schizophrenia guidelines to include the specific needs of women...

..1992; Grinspoon et al., 1999; Halbreich and Palter, 1996; More et al., 2001; Peuskens, 1997; Sowers et al., 1995)...

..To search the literature to reassess the concept of shared psychotic disorder (SPD) using modern nosology and current biopsychosocial formulation...

..CONCLUSIONS: For clinical reasons, it is important to recognize and report adverse reactions to herbal remedies and to document that these treatments have side effects commensurate with their potent action on brain neurochemistry...

..These findings suggest that the brain tissue abnormalities found in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder may be distinguishable using MR imaging...

..Atypical antipsychotics are thought not to elevate prolactin levels. The authors examined data suggesting that atypical antipsychotics do elevate prolactin levels but more transiently than typical antipsychotics...

..The aim of this human positron emission tomography (PET) study was to compare upregulation in a smoker and a non-smoker, both of whom had received haloperidol for the same duration of time...

..It was concluded that this sequence represented a pseudogene related to the serotonin-7 receptor gene...

..CONCLUSIONS: Same-sex psychiatric facilities need to be implemented in a variety of communities and careful research conducted to examine potential benefits in specific populations...

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