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The impact of side-effects of antipsychotic agents on life satisfaction of schizophrenia patients: a naturalistic studyMichael Ritsner
Institute for Psychiatric Studies, Sha ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Hadera, Israel
Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 12:31-8. 2002..Patient's subjective response to these events rather than their number is more predictive of QOL...- Age differences in stress process of recent immigrantsMichael Ritsner
Sha'ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Hadera, Israel
Compr Psychiatry 44:135-41. 2003..Thus, age differences in the stress process of recent immigrants are associated with age-specific perceived adjustment difficulties and demographic characteristics... - Suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among immigrant adolescents from the former Soviet Union to IsraelA M Ponizovsky
Psychiatric Epidemiology Research Unit, Talbieh Mental Health Center, Jerusalem, Israel
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 38:1433-41. 1999..A community survey was conducted to examine suicidal ideation and suicide attempts, behavior problems, psychological distress, social support, and adjustment difficulties in a sample of adolescents... - Familiality in a five-factor model of schizophrenia psychopathology: findings from a 16-month follow-up studyMichael Ritsner
Sha ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Mobile Post Hefer 38814, Hadera, Israel
Psychiatry Res 136:173-9. 2005..It is suggested that dysphoric mood may be a useful phenotype for molecular genetic studies of schizophrenia with positive family history... - Perceived quality of life in schizophrenia: relationships to sleep qualityMichael Ritsner
Sha ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Hadera, Israel
Qual Life Res 13:783-91. 2004..Thus, poor QOL reported by schizophrenia patients is substantially associated with poor sleep quality. This association appears both independently and synergistically with depression, distress and side effects of medications... - The attribution of somatization in schizophrenia patients: a naturalistic follow-up studyMichael Ritsner
Sha ar Menashe Mental Health Center, and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel
J Clin Psychiatry 64:1370-8. 2003..This study aimed to explore the prevalence, correlates, and predictors of somatization among schizophrenia patients... - Decreased platelet peripheral-type benzodiazepine receptors in persistently violent schizophrenia patientsMichael Ritsner
Sha ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Mobile Post Hefer 38814, Israel
J Psychiatr Res 37:549-56. 2003.... - Association study of CAG repeats in the KCNN3 gene in Israeli patients with major psychosisMichael Ritsner
Sha ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Mobile Post Hefer 38814, Hadera, Israel
Psychiatr Genet 13:143-50. 2003..We investigated the contribution of the CAG repeat at the KCNN3 gene, localized to chromosome 1q21.3, to the genetic susceptibility for schizophrenia, schizoaffective and bipolar disorders... - Predictors of quality of life in major psychoses: a naturalistic follow-up studyMichael Ritsner
Sha ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Hadera, Israel
J Clin Psychiatry 64:308-15. 2003..We sought to determine predictors of perceived QOL and to explore the changes that occur regarding QOL among individuals with schizophrenia as compared to patients with schizoaffective/mood disorders... - Quality of life and coping with schizophrenia symptomsM Ritsner
Sha ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Institute for Psychiatric Studies, Hadera, Israel
Qual Life Res 12:1-9. 2003..Thus, different coping strategies may reduce the negative influence of specific symptoms and related distress on the subjective QOL of schizophrenia patients... - Subjective quality of life in severely mentally ill patients: a comparison of two instrumentsM Ritsner
Institute for Psychiatric Studies, Sha ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Hadera, Israel
Qual Life Res 11:553-61. 2002..These discrepancies should be considered when comparing evaluations from similar domains in these QOL scales... - Differences in quality of life domains and psychopathologic and psychosocial factors in psychiatric patientsM Ritsner
Institute for Psychiatric Studies, Sha ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Hadera, Israel
J Clin Psychiatry 61:880-9; quiz 890. 2000..We hypothesized that QOL in severe mental disorder patients would have a more substantial relationship with psychosocial factors than with illness-associated factors... - Gender differences in psychosocial risk factors for psychological distress among immigrantsM Ritsner
Institute for Psychiatric Studies, Sha ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Mobile Post Hefer 38814, Hadera, Israel
Compr Psychiatry 42:151-60. 2001..Our findings demonstrate the validity of gender as an important mediating mechanism underlying the differential perception of risk factors for the development of psychological distress... - Somatization in an immigrant population in Israel: a community survey of prevalence, risk factors, and help-seeking behaviorM Ritsner
Institute for Psychiatric Studies, Shaar Menashe Mental Health Center, Hadera, Israel
Am J Psychiatry 157:385-92. 2000.... - Phospholipid patterns of erythrocytes in schizophrenia: relationships to symptomatologyA M Ponizovsky
Institute for Psychiatric Studies, Sha ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Hadera, Israel
Schizophr Res 52:121-6. 2001..It is suggested that a main source of that difference is a higher activity of the polyunsaturated acid-selective phospholipase A(2) in the negative syndrome patients than in the positive syndrome and control groups... 
The clinical and therapeutic potentials of dehydroepiandrosterone and pregnenolone in schizophreniaM S Ritsner
Department of Psychiatry, The Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Neuroscience 191:91-100. 2011..The review concludes with a list of suggested topics for future research. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Neuroactive Steroids: Focus on Human Brain...- Validity of an abbreviated quality of life enjoyment and satisfaction questionnaire (Q-LES-Q-18) for schizophrenia, schizoaffective, and mood disorder patientsMichael Ritsner
Sha ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Hadera, Israel
Qual Life Res 14:1693-703. 2005..Thus, Q-LES-Q-18, a brief, self-administered questionnaire may aid in monitoring quality of life outcomes of schizophrenia, schizoaffective, and mood disorder patients... - Condensed version of the Quality of Life Scale for schizophrenia for use in outcome studiesMichael Ritsner
Pathological Behavior and Psychobiology Research Laboratory, Sha ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Hadera, Israel
Psychiatry Res 135:65-75. 2005..Utilization of the revised QLS(5) in routine care and clinical trials may potentially facilitate evaluation of treatment outcomes in schizophrenia... - Quality of life and temperament factors in schizophrenia: comparative study of patients, their siblings and controlsRena Kurs
Sha ar Meashe Mental Health Centre, Mobile Post Hefer 38814, Israel
Qual Life Res 14:433-40. 2005..These and other non-illness related factors should be considered when evaluating quality of life outcomes in intervention studies... - Differences in blood pregnenolone and dehydroepiandrosterone levels between schizophrenia patients and healthy subjectsMichael Ritsner
Sha ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Mobile Post Hefer 38814, Israel
Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 17:358-65. 2007..The neurosteroid levels were monitored for two months and the relationship of these neurosteroids with schizophrenic symptomatology, emotional distress, and anxiety was examined... - Aggregability of red blood cells of schizophrenia patients with negative syndrome is selectively enhancedGregory Barshtein
Biochemistry Department, Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
Schizophr Bull 30:913-22. 2004..NS RBCs have constitutively elevated aggregability, which can contribute to cerebral microcirculatory disorders and may be a biological marker for distinguishing between PS and NS in genetic studies of schizophrenia... - State and trait related predictors of serum cortisol to DHEA(S) molar ratios and hormone concentrations in schizophrenia patientsMichael Ritsner
Sha ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Mobile Post Hefer 38814, Israel The Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel
Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 17:257-64. 2007..The present study aimed to examine the contribution of anxiety, and severity of symptoms to the prediction of serum cortisol, DHEA(S) levels and two molar ratios across three examinations... - Changes in stability of first-admission psychiatric diagnoses over 14 years, based on cross-sectional data at three time pointsAlexander M Ponizovsky
Mental Health Services, Department of Research and Evaluation, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel
Isr J Psychiatry Relat Sci 43:34-9. 2006..Stability of diagnoses over time is an important criterion of reliability of any diagnostic system... - Longitudinal assessment of coping abilities at exacerbation and stabilization in schizophreniaRael D Strous
Beer Yaakov Medical Health Center, Israel
Compr Psychiatry 46:167-75. 2005.... - Determinants of changes in perceived quality of life in the course of schizophreniaMichael Ritsner
Sha ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Mobile Post Hefer, 38814, Hadera, Israel
Qual Life Res 15:515-26. 2006.... - Alterations in DHEA metabolism in schizophrenia: two-month case-control studyMichael Ritsner
Acute Department and Clinical Psychobiology Laboratory, Sha ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Mobile Post Hefer, Hadera, Israel
Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 16:137-46. 2006.... - Cortisol/dehydroepiandrosterone ratio and responses to antipsychotic treatment in schizophreniaMichael Ritsner
Sha ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Mobile Post Hefer, 38814 Hadera, Israel
Neuropsychopharmacology 30:1913-22. 2005..Thus, these data provide evidence that elevated serum cortisol and cortisol/DHEA(S) ratios may serve as markers of biological mechanisms that are involved in responsivity of schizophrenia patients to antipsychotic treatment... - Temperament types are associated with weak self-construct, elevated distress and emotion-oriented coping in schizophrenia: evidence for a complex vulnerability marker?Michael Ritsner
Sha ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Mobile Post Hefer 38814, Israel
Psychiatry Res 128:219-28. 2004.... - Quality of life outcomes of risperidone, olanzapine, and typical antipsychotics among schizophrenia patients treated in routine clinical practice: a naturalistic comparative studyMichael Ritsner
Sha ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Hadera, Israel
J Clin Psychopharmacol 24:582-91. 2004.... - Neural network identification of high-risk suicide patientsIlan Modai
Sh ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Institute of Psychiatric Studies, Hadera, Israel
Med Inform Internet Med 27:39-47. 2002..Backpropagation (BP) neural networks (NN) successfully detected patient files of patients who had committed MSSA but failed to identify MSSA patients when trained with data collected during face-to-face interviews... - A computerized patient information system in a psychiatric hospitalIlan Modai
Institute of Psychiatric Studies of Sha ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Mobile, Israel
Psychiatr Serv 53:476-8. 2002..Cost savings have been achieved in areas such as pharmacy and food distribution. The initial investment in the system was $400,000, which is expected to be recouped after 11.4 years... - An association of CAG repeats at the KCNN3 locus with symptom dimensions of schizophreniaMichael Ritsner
Sha ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Mobile Post Hefer 38814, Hadera, Israel
Biol Psychiatry 51:788-94. 2002..There has been no attempt to replicate the results. In this study, we investigated whether a symptom polymorphism of schizophrenia is associated with both the CAG repeat numbers and the difference in allele sizes... - Predicting changes in domain-specific quality of life of schizophrenia patientsMichael Ritsner
Sha'ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Mobile Post Hefer 38814, Hadera, Israel
J Nerv Ment Dis 191:287-94. 2003..Changes in stress process-related factors are stronger predictors of fluctuations in QOL domains than changes in illness symptoms and should be considered when evaluating life satisfaction... - Satisfaction with quality of life varies with temperament types of patients with schizophreniaMichael Ritsner
Sha'ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Mobile Post Hefer 38814, Israel
J Nerv Ment Dis 191:668-74. 2003..Novelty seeking, reward dependence, and harm avoidance are associated with different domains of QOL... - Subjective response to antipsychotics of schizophrenia patients treated in routine clinical practice: a naturalistic comparative studyMichael Ritsner
Sha ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Mobile Post Hefer 38814, Hadera, Israel
J Clin Psychopharmacol 24:245-54. 2004..Satisfaction with medication together with subjective tolerability needs to be considered in clinical trials... - Elevation of the cortisol/dehydroepiandrosterone ratio in schizophrenia patientsMichael Ritsner
Sha ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Mobile Post Hefer, Hadera, Israel
Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 14:267-73. 2004.... - Is the G72/G30 locus associated with schizophrenia? single nucleotide polymorphisms, haplotypes, and gene expression analysisMichael Korostishevsky
Department of Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Biol Psychiatry 56:169-76. 2004.... - Fluvoxamine augmentation of olanzapine in chronic schizophrenia: pharmacokinetic interactions and clinical effectsChristoph Hiemke
Department of Psychiatry, University of Mainz, Germany
J Clin Psychopharmacol 22:502-6. 2002.... - Assessing psychological distress in psychiatric patients: validation of the Talbieh Brief Distress InventoryMichael Ritsner
Institute for Psychiatric Studies, Sha'ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Hadera, Israel
Compr Psychiatry 43:229-34. 2002.... - Schizophrenic patients who smoke have a faster finger tapping rate than non-smokersHenry Silver
Flugelman Mazra Psychiatric Hospital, Doar Na Ashrat, Israel
Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 12:141-4. 2002..Nicotine can improve central processing in medicated schizophrenia patients and this may constitute part of the incentive for smoking...