Diet, smoking and cardiovascular risk in people with schizophrenia: descriptive studyR G McCreadie
Department of Clinical Research, Crichton Royal Hospital, Dumfries DG1 4TG, UK
Br J Psychiatry 183:534-9. 2003
..Physical health of people with schizophrenia is poor and they die early from cardiovascular disease...
- Structural brain differences between never-treated patients with schizophrenia, with and without dyskinesia, and normal control subjects: a magnetic resonance imaging study
Robin G McCreadie
Department of Clinical Research, Crichton Royal Hospital, Dumfries DG1 4TG, Scotland
Arch Gen Psychiatry 59:332-6. 2002
..The present study, using magnetic resonance imaging, examines brain structure in such patients, in those without dyskinesia, and in normal control subjects...
- Spontaneous dyskinesia in first-degree relatives of chronically ill, never-treated people with schizophrenia
Robin G McCreadie
Department of Clinical Research, Crichton Royal Hospital, Dumfries, UK
Br J Psychiatry 183:45-9. 2003
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- Use of drugs, alcohol and tobacco by people with schizophrenia: case-control study
Robin G McCreadie
Department of Clinical Research, Crichton Royal Hospital, Dumfries DG1 4TG, UK
Br J Psychiatry 181:321-5. 2002
..Specialised services should be developed to help people with schizophrenia and associated substance misuse. The extent of the problem therefore needs to be known...
- Spontaneous dyskinesia and parkinsonism in never-medicated, chronically ill patients with schizophrenia: 18-month follow-up
R G McCreadie
Crichton Royal Hospital, Dumfries, UK
Br J Psychiatry 181:135-7. 2002
..Spontaneous dyskinesia and parkinsonism have been reported in never-medicated patients with schizophrenia but there has been no previous study of the natural history of these conditions...
- Insight and psychopathology in never-treated schizophrenia
Srinivasan Tirupati
Hunter Mental Health, James Fletcher Hospital, The University of Newcastle, NSW 2300, Australia
Compr Psychiatry 48:264-8. 2007
..A subgroup of patients with a treatment-resistant trait of negative symptoms associated with poor insight was hypothesized...
- Psychopathology in never-treated schizophrenia
Srinivasan N Tirupati
Faculty of Health, The University of Newcastle and Psychiatric Rehabilitation Service, Hunter New England Area Health Service, NSW 2300, Australia
Compr Psychiatry 47:1-6. 2006
..The differences can be said to demarcate the natural features of the illness from medication effects on the relationship of symptoms with one another and to sex, age, duration of illness, and age at onset...
- Dietary improvement in people with schizophrenia: randomised controlled trial
Robin G McCreadie
Director of Clinical Research, Crichton Royal Hospital, Dumfries DG1 4TG, UK
Br J Psychiatry 187:346-51. 2005
..People with schizophrenia make poor dietary choices...
- Summer birth and deficit schizophrenia in Dumfries and Galloway, southwestern Scotland
Brian Kirkpatrick
Maryland Psychiatric Research Center and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland, Baltimore 21228, USA
Am J Psychiatry 159:1382-7. 2002
..This analysis used data from an epidemiological study of incident cases of psychosis to test the hypothesis that deficit schizophrenia is associated with summer birth...
- Extrapyramidal symptoms in unmedicated schizophrenia
Robin G McCreadie
Crichton Royal Hospital, Dumfries, DG1 4XB, Scotland, UK
J Psychiatr Res 39:261-6. 2005
..Dyskinesia and parkinsonism are an integral part of the schizophrenia disease process whose relationship with other factors could be influenced by antipsychotic drug treatment...
- Support for RGS4 as a susceptibility gene for schizophrenia
Nigel M Williams
Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Biol Psychiatry 55:192-5. 2004
..Although the original report was highly suggestive, a limitation was that the study was conducted on rather small samples...
- Pharmacogenetics of tardive dyskinesia: combined analysis of 780 patients supports association with dopamine D3 receptor gene Ser9Gly polymorphism
Bernard Lerer
Biological Psychiatry Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Ein Karem, Jerusalem 91120, Israel
Neuropsychopharmacology 27:105-19. 2002
..68, p <.0001). These findings support a small but significant contribution of the DRD3 ser9gly polymorphism to TD susceptibility that is demonstrable over and above population effects and the effect of age and gender on the phenotype...
- Obstetric complications and breast feeding in schizophrenia
Mario Amore
Institute of Psychiatry, University of Parma, p. le Matteotti 9, 43100 Parma, Italy
J Nerv Ment Dis 190:705-7. 2002
Do symptom dimensions or categorical diagnoses best discriminate between known risk factors for psychosis?Judith Allardyce
Dept of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, Maastricht University, P O Box 616 location DOT10, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 42:429-37. 2007
..Then, assess the comparative usefulness of the dimensional and categorical representations of psychosis in discriminating between demographic and pre-morbid risk factors...
