R Schennach-Wolff

..0113) were found to be significantly predictive of recovery. Our results underline the need to implement more specific treatment strategies to improve long-term outcome...

..To examine the influencing factors and predictors of early improvement in schizophrenia patients...

..ratio scale) leads to a set of mathematical problems, potentially resulting in erroneous results concerning the efficacy of the treatment...

..To evaluate the predictive validity of early response compared to other well-known predictor variables in acutely ill first-episode patients...

..Furthermore, these linking results were compared with those derived from randomized controlled trials to examine if the baseline severity might influence the linking results...

..To examine depressive symptoms, their course during treatment, and influence on outcome...

..The aim of this paper is to apply the proposed consensus remission criteria to an acutely ill inpatient sample at admission and evaluate their adaptability in this patient population and pharmaceutical trials...

..Early improvement with treatment is thought to be important in patients with first-episode schizophrenia, yet a valid definition is still outstanding...

..Purpose of this study was to assess subjective well-being in schizophrenia inpatients and to find variables predictive for response and remission of subjective well-being...

..To examine quality of life and subjective well-being as predictors of symptomatic treatment outcome...

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..To assess criteria and to identify predictive factors for functional outcome. The criteria should cover all domains proposed by the Remission in Schizophrenia Working Group...

..Purpose was to assess suicidality before and at the time of admission in patients with schizophrenia and compare outcome differences...

..To describe the course of positive and negative symptoms during inpatient treatment and examine remission and response rates under routine clinical care conditions...

..The aim of this study was to assess the cognitive effects of aripiprazole in inpatients with schizophrenia...

..Self-ratings of psychotic experiences might be biased by depressive symptoms...

..To develop and evaluate a self- and observer-rating scale on quality of life in patients suffering from schizophrenia with regard to the efficacy of atypical antipsychotics based on different dimensions and to apply within a pilot study...

..To examine influencing variables of neurocognition in patients with schizophrenia and to predict cognition during antipsychotic treatment...

..Therefore we propose to assess the risk of each patient for having bipolar disorder individually. Patients who are at a high risk should at least be informed and should be closely monitored for the development of manic episodes...

..Zotepine is an antipsychotic with atypical properties and previous data have suggested a very favorable side effect profile...

..To investigate the association of early improvement and treatment emergent suicidal ideation in a large sample (N=705) of naturalistically treated inpatients with major depressive disorder...

..Even significance levels of estimated treatment effects change, depending on the structure of the data (eg, baseline symptom severity). Using a PANSS version with items ranging from 0 to 6 would avoid such often neglected pitfalls...

..In future, further trials are needed to investigate the effect of COX-2 inhibitors on prodromal and negative symptoms of schizophrenia...

..Because of strict inclusion and exclusion criteria, results drawn from placebo-controlled randomized antidepressant efficacy trials may not be transferable to real-world patients...