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A long-term, multicenter, open-label study of risperidone in elderly patients with psychosis. On behalf of the Risperidone Working GroupM Davidson
Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 15:506-14. 2000....
Increased number of offspring in first degree relatives of psychotic individuals: a partial explanation for the persistence of psychotic illnessesM Weiser
Department of Psychiatry, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
Acta Psychiatr Scand 119:466-71. 2009..As patients with psychotic illness have fewer offspring than controls, the persistence of psychotic illness is puzzling. We hypothesized that unaffected first-degree relatives of patients have more offspring than controls...
Improvement in cognition associated with novel antipsychotic drugs: a direct drug effect or reduction of EPS?M Weiser
Department of Psychiatry, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
Schizophr Res 46:81-9. 2000..VMT assesses planning capabilities, attention and executive functions known to be impaired in schizophrenia, which are suggested to be affected by novel antipsychotics...
Self-report of family functioning and risk for psychotic disorders in male adolescents with behavioural disturbancesM Weiser
Department of Psychiatry, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
Acta Psychiatr Scand 117:225-31. 2008..Previous studies indicate that a poor family environment might affect vulnerability for the later manifestation of psychotic illness. The current study aims to examine family functioning prior to the onset of psychosis...
Elaboration on immigration and risk for schizophreniaM Weiser
Department of Psychiatry, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
Psychol Med 38:1113-9. 2008..95, 95% CI 1.88-4.65). ConclusionThis comparison between diverse groups of immigrants supports the notion that immigrants who differ in culture and appearance from the host population are at increased risk for schizophrenia...
Accuracy of self-reported premorbid functioning in schizophreniaN Brill
Ashkelon Academic College, Israel
Schizophr Res 97:103-8. 2007..The purpose of the current study was to assess the extent to which persons with schizophrenia might exhibit biased reporting relative to controls...
Diabetes mellitus in midlife and the risk of dementia three decades laterM Schnaider Beeri
Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave Levy Place, Box 1230, New York, NY 10029, USA
Neurology 63:1902-7. 2004..To examine the association between diabetes in midlife (1963-1968) and dementia more than three decades later (1999-2001)...
Cognitive performance of male adolescents is lower than controls across psychiatric disorders: a population-based studyM Weiser
Department of Psychiatry, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
Acta Psychiatr Scand 110:471-5. 2004..This study tested the hypothesis that as a group, adolescents suffering from psychiatric disorders score worse on cognitive tests compared with controls...
Association between nonpsychotic psychiatric diagnoses in adolescent males and subsequent onset of schizophreniaM Weiser
Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Hashomer 52621, Israel
Arch Gen Psychiatry 58:959-64. 2001..1-6.2) for neurosis. CONCLUSION: These results reflect the relatively common finding of impaired functioning in patients later hospitalized for schizophrenia and the relatively low power of these disorders in predicting schizophrenia...
Comparative effectiveness of rosuvastatin versus other statin therapies in patients at increased risk of failure to achieve low-density lipoprotein goalsS A Kamat
Health Outcomes Research, HealthCore, Inc, Wilmington, DE 19801, USA
Curr Med Res Opin 23:1121-30. 2007..This study identified risk factors associated with failure to attain LDL-C goals in routine clinical practice and examined the effectiveness of rosuvastatin compared to other statins in patients presenting with these risk factors...
The current status of sports medicine training in United States internal medicine residency programmesC L Sweeney
Michigan State University, Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies, USA
Br J Sports Med 37:219-25. 2003..To determine the general status of sports medicine training in internal medicine residency programmes in the United States...
Long-term safety of risperidoneM Davidson
Department of Psychiatry, Tel Aviv University, Israel
J Clin Psychiatry 62:26-8. 2001..In summary, the safety and tolerability of risperidone in treating elderly dementia sufferers has been favorable in several clinical trials...
Effectiveness of antipsychotic drugs in first-episode schizophrenia and schizophreniform disorder: an open randomised clinical trialRene S Kahn
Department of Psychiatry, Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Lancet 371:1085-97. 2008..We aimed to compare the effectiveness of second-generation antipsychotic drugs with that of a low dose of haloperidol, in first-episode schizophrenia...
Selective loss of dopamine D3-type receptor mRNA expression in parietal and motor cortices of patients with chronic schizophreniaC Schmauss
Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 90:8942-6. 1993..Many variables associated with either the course and/or the therapeutic management of the disease may account for the selective loss of D3 mRNA in the motor, somatosensory, and somatosensory association areas of schizophrenic brains...
