Hai Gwo Hwu

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Affiliation: National Taiwan University
Country: Taiwan

Publications

  1. ncbi A protein interaction based model for schizophrenia study
    Pei Chun Hsu
    Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang Ming University, Taiwan
    BMC Bioinformatics 9:S23. 2008
  2. ncbi Association of 5HT2A receptor gene polymorphism and alcohol abuse with behavior problems
    H G Hwu
    Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    Am J Med Genet 96:797-800. 2000
  3. ncbi Taiwan schizophrenia linkage study: the field study
    Hai Gwo Hwu
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital and Medical College, and Department of Psychology, College of Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 134:30-6. 2005
  4. ncbi Linkage of schizophrenia with chromosome 1q loci in Taiwanese families
    H G Hwu
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    Mol Psychiatry 8:445-52. 2003
  5. ncbi A single nucleotide polymorphism fine mapping study of chromosome 1q42.1 reveals the vulnerability genes for schizophrenia, GNPAT and DISC1: Association with impairment of sustained attention
    Yu Li Liu
    Division of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Research, National Health Research Institutes, Taipei, Taiwan
    Biol Psychiatry 60:554-62. 2006
  6. ncbi Evaluation of RGS4 as a candidate gene for schizophrenia
    Yu Li Liu
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 141:418-20. 2006
  7. ncbi No association of G72 and D-amino acid oxidase genes with schizophrenia
    Yu Li Liu
    Division of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Research, National Health Research Institutes, Taipei, Taiwan
    Schizophr Res 87:15-20. 2006
  8. ncbi Absence of significant associations between four AKT1 SNP markers and schizophrenia in the Taiwanese population
    Yu Li Liu
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
    Psychiatr Genet 16:39-41. 2006
  9. ncbi Medium-term course and outcome of schizophrenia depicted by the sixth-month subtype after an acute episode
    Chen Chung Liu
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    J Formos Med Assoc 111:265-74. 2012
  10. ncbi Differentiation of schizophrenia patients from healthy subjects by mismatch negativity and neuropsychological tests
    Yi Ting Lin
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital Yun Lin Branch, Dou Liou City, Yun Lin, Taiwan
    PLoS ONE 7:e34454. 2012

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  1. ncbi A protein interaction based model for schizophrenia study
    Pei Chun Hsu
    Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang Ming University, Taiwan
    BMC Bioinformatics 9:S23. 2008
    ..Individuals with multiple candidate genes may have increased risk. However it is not clear what kind of gene combinations may produce the disease phenotype. Their collective effect remains to be studied...
  2. ncbi Association of 5HT2A receptor gene polymorphism and alcohol abuse with behavior problems
    H G Hwu
    Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    Am J Med Genet 96:797-800. 2000
    ..Am. J. Med. Genet. (Neuropsychiatr. Genet.) 96:797-800, 2000...
  3. ncbi Taiwan schizophrenia linkage study: the field study
    Hai Gwo Hwu
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital and Medical College, and Department of Psychology, College of Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 134:30-6. 2005
    ..1 years old. This TSLS demonstrated a successful establishment of an efficient research infrastructure to collect a large nation-wise sample of schizophrenic family for genetic linkage study...
  4. ncbi Linkage of schizophrenia with chromosome 1q loci in Taiwanese families
    H G Hwu
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    Mol Psychiatry 8:445-52. 2003
    ..The marker D1S2836 also had a maximal proportion (0.57, P=0.05) of shared IBD under the broad model. These findings may provide guidance for positional cloning studies on candidate genes in the 1q22-31 and 1q41-44 regions...
  5. ncbi A single nucleotide polymorphism fine mapping study of chromosome 1q42.1 reveals the vulnerability genes for schizophrenia, GNPAT and DISC1: Association with impairment of sustained attention
    Yu Li Liu
    Division of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Research, National Health Research Institutes, Taipei, Taiwan
    Biol Psychiatry 60:554-62. 2006
    ..The marker D1S251 of chromosome 1q42.1 showed significant association with schizophrenia in a Taiwanese sample. We used single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) fine mapping to search for the vulnerability genes of schizophrenia...
  6. ncbi Evaluation of RGS4 as a candidate gene for schizophrenia
    Yu Li Liu
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 141:418-20. 2006
    ..Our results fail to support the RGS4 as a candidate gene for schizophrenia when evaluated from these three SNP markers...
  7. ncbi No association of G72 and D-amino acid oxidase genes with schizophrenia
    Yu Li Liu
    Division of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Research, National Health Research Institutes, Taipei, Taiwan
    Schizophr Res 87:15-20. 2006
    ..These results suggest that the DAAO and G72 genes are not susceptibility genes for schizophrenia in a Taiwanese sample...
  8. ncbi Absence of significant associations between four AKT1 SNP markers and schizophrenia in the Taiwanese population
    Yu Li Liu
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
    Psychiatr Genet 16:39-41. 2006
    ..Both single locus and haplotypes analyses showed no association of these single-nucleotide polymorphisms with schizophrenia. These findings fail to support AKT1 as a susceptibility gene for schizophrenia in the Taiwanese population...
  9. ncbi Medium-term course and outcome of schizophrenia depicted by the sixth-month subtype after an acute episode
    Chen Chung Liu
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    J Formos Med Assoc 111:265-74. 2012
    ..This article attempts to simplify this complexity using a hypothetical tripartite based on the profile of symptoms at 6 months after acute treatment...
  10. ncbi Differentiation of schizophrenia patients from healthy subjects by mismatch negativity and neuropsychological tests
    Yi Ting Lin
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital Yun Lin Branch, Dou Liou City, Yun Lin, Taiwan
    PLoS ONE 7:e34454. 2012
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  11. ncbi Familial aggregation in skin flush response to niacin patch among schizophrenic patients and their nonpsychotic relatives
    Sheng Hsiang Lin
    Institute of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, 17 Xuzhou Road, Taipei 100, Taiwan
    Schizophr Bull 33:174-82. 2007
    ..These findings provide support for the potential of niacin flush response as a vulnerability indicator to schizophrenia...
  12. ncbi Neuregulin 1 gene and variations in perceptual aberration of schizotypal personality in adolescents
    Hsiao Fan Lin
    Institute of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, 1 Jen Ai Road, Sec 1, Taipei 100, Taiwan
    Psychol Med 35:1589-98. 2005
    ..We test the hypothesis that the neuregulin 1 (NRG1 ) gene at chromosome 8p22-p12, which has been implicated as a susceptibility gene to schizophrenia, is associated with variations in schizotypal personality in non-clinical populations...
  13. ncbi ANXA7, PPP3CB, DNAJC9, and ZMYND17 genes at chromosome 10q22 associated with the subgroup of schizophrenia with deficits in attention and executive function
    Chih Min Liu
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Yun Lin branch, Yunlin, Taiwan
    Biol Psychiatry 70:51-8. 2011
    ..A genome scan of Taiwanese schizophrenia families suggested linkage to chromosome 10q22.3. We aimed to find the candidate genes in this region...
  14. ncbi A genome-wide linkage scan for distinct subsets of schizophrenia characterized by age at onset and neurocognitive deficits
    Yin Ju Lien
    College of Public Health, Research Center for Genes and Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Environment and Human Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    PLoS ONE 6:e24103. 2011
    ..The aim of the study is to evaluate the genetic linkage evidence for schizophrenia in subsets of families with earlier age at onset or greater neurocognitive deficits...
  15. ncbi More severe sustained attention deficits in nonpsychotic siblings of multiplex schizophrenia families than in those of simplex ones
    Hui Chun Tsuang
    Institute of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
    Schizophr Res 87:172-80. 2006
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  16. ncbi No association evidence between schizophrenia and dystrobrevin-binding protein 1 (DTNBP1) in Taiwanese families
    Chih Min Liu
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
    Schizophr Res 93:391-8. 2007
    ..We failed to replicate the association evidence between DTNBP1 and schizophrenia and this gene may not play a major role in the etiology of schizophrenia in this Taiwanese family sample...
  17. ncbi Follow-up of subjects with suspected pre-psychotic state in Taiwan
    Chen Chung Liu
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    Schizophr Res 126:65-70. 2011
    ..To describe the outcomes of subjects with suspected pre-psychotic state in Taiwan...
  18. ncbi Symptom patterns and subgrouping of schizophrenic patients: significance of negative symptoms assessed on admission
    Hai Gwo Hwu
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    Schizophr Res 56:105-19. 2002
    ..Thus, the GONEG might comprise patients having a pure paranoid syndrome with quick and better treatment response, while the GWNEG comprises patients with the blunt-disorganization syndrome having a poorer outcome...
  19. ncbi Outcome of severe obsessive-compulsive disorder with schizotypal features: a pilot study
    Lung Cheng Huang
    Department of Psychiatry, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan
    J Formos Med Assoc 110:85-92. 2011
    ..Long-term outcome of patients with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and schizotypal features has been rarely studied. We investigated this issue in this retrospective pilot study...
  20. ncbi Development of a brief self-report questionnaire for screening putative pre-psychotic states
    Chen Chung Liu
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    Schizophr Res 143:32-7. 2013
    ..This study developed a questionnaire using data covering a wide range of clinical characteristics...
  21. ncbi Creating a platform to bridge service and research for early psychosis
    Chen Chung Liu
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    J Formos Med Assoc 109:543-9. 2010
    ..It seems that setting up a special clinic to provide a service for at risk subjects, combined with certain campaigns, could facilitate their engagement in a longitudinal prospective study for early psychosis...
  22. ncbi Correlates of gender dysphoria in Taiwanese university students
    Meng Chuan Lai
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, No 7, Chung Shan South Road, 10002, Taipei, Taiwan
    Arch Sex Behav 39:1415-28. 2010
    ..This implies the importance of attention and specific measures to offset psychiatric conditions and to promote mental well-being of this population...
  23. ncbi Association between the dopamine transporter gene and the inattentive subtype of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in Taiwan
    Chi Yung Shang
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 35:421-8. 2011
    ..012). Our finding of the haplotype rs27048 (C)/rs429699 (T) as a novel genetic marker in the inattentive ADHD subtype suggests that variation in the DAT1 gene may primarily affect the inattentive subtype of ADHD...
  24. ncbi Rapid response to antipsychotic treatment on psychotic prodrome: implications from a case series
    Chen Chung Liu
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, No 7 Chung Shan S Road, Taipei 10002, Taiwan
    Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 64:202-6. 2010
    ..We urge specific attention to monitor the dissolution of psychotic-like symptoms carefully in order to have a better understanding of the pathogenesis and pharmacotherapy in the inception of psychosis...
  25. ncbi RASD2, MYH9, and CACNG2 genes at chromosome 22q12 associated with the subgroup of schizophrenia with non-deficit in sustained attention and executive function
    Yu Li Liu
    Division of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Research, National Health Research Institutes, Taipei, Taiwan
    Biol Psychiatry 64:789-96. 2008
    ..In a previous linkage study of schizophrenia that included Taiwanese samples, the marker D22S278 (22q12.3) was significantly linked to schizophrenia (p = .001)...
  26. ncbi Applicability of the Chinese version of the Prodromal Questionnaire
    Shu Chen Chiu
    School of Nursing, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    J Formos Med Assoc 109:647-55. 2010
    ..Early detection and intervention of psychosis is clinically important. This study aimed to test the applicability of the Chinese version of the Prodromal Questionnaire (CPQ) for identifying prodromal states of psychosis...
  27. ncbi Absent response to niacin skin patch is specific to schizophrenia and independent of smoking
    Chih Min Liu
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
    Psychiatry Res 152:181-7. 2007
    ..The niacin skin test for schizophrenia had 49.2% sensitivity and 92.5% specificity compared with controls. This study found that absent response to niacin skin patch was specific to schizophrenia and independent of smoking status...
  28. ncbi Psychiatric nurses' anxiety and cognition in managing psychiatric patients' aggression
    Shing Chia Chen
    Department of Nursing, National Taiwan University College of Medicine and National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    Arch Psychiatr Nurs 19:141-9. 2005
    ..An important outcome of this study is the added understanding of cognitive appraisal, trait anxiety, and attitudes, that influence the anxiety of psychiatric nurses...
  29. ncbi Aripiprazole for drug-naive or antipsychotic-short-exposure subjects with ultra-high risk state and first-episode psychosis: an open-label study
    Chen Chung Liu
    From the Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
    J Clin Psychopharmacol 33:18-23. 2013
    ....
  30. ncbi Auditory event-related potential of subjects with suspected pre-psychotic state and first-episode psychosis
    Ming H Hsieh
    Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    Schizophr Res 140:243-9. 2012
    ..This study explores 3 sets of auditory-related event potentials in subjects with different risk levels of psychosis...
  31. ncbi The multidimensionality of schizotypy in nonpsychotic relatives of patients with schizophrenia and its applications in ordered subsets linkage analysis of schizophrenia
    Yin Ju Lien
    Institute of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 153:1-9. 2010
    ..Their differential relations to linkage signals have etiological implications and provide further evidence for their validity...
  32. ncbi Risk factors for suicide in Taiwanese college students
    Susan Shur Fen Gau
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    J Am Coll Health 57:135-42. 2008
    ..The authors investigated the personality characteristics, psychopathology, parenting style, and family function among Taiwanese college students with high, moderate, and low suicidal risks...
  33. ncbi Clinical manifestations of aggressive acts by schizophrenic inpatients: a prospective study
    Shing Chia Chen
    Department of Nursing, National Taiwan University College of Medicine and National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    Perspect Psychiatr Care 47:110-6. 2011
    ..The purpose of this study was to explore the clinical manifestations of aggressive acts by schizophrenic patients during hospitalization...
  34. ncbi Genetic copy number variants in sib pairs both affected with schizophrenia
    Chia Huei Lee
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
    J Biomed Sci 17:2. 2010
    ..Schizophrenia is a complex disorder with involvement of multiple genes...
  35. ncbi MicroRNA expression aberration as potential peripheral blood biomarkers for schizophrenia
    Chi Yu Lai
    Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    PLoS ONE 6:e21635. 2011
    ..The results indicated that the mononuclear leukocyte-based miRNA profiling is a feasible way to identify biomarkers for schizophrenia, and the seven-miRNA signature warrants further investigation...
  36. ncbi Sustained attention deficits in nonpsychotic relatives of schizophrenic patients: a recurrence risk ratio analysis
    Wei J Chen
    Institute of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    Biol Psychiatry 55:995-1000. 2004
    ..CONCLUSIONS: Stringent cut-off criteria of CPT deficits with adjustment for demographic features leads to recurrence risk ratios greater than those based on schizophrenia alone in both parents and siblings of schizophrenic patients...
  37. ncbi Autonomic modulation and health-related quality of life among schizophrenic patients treated with non-intensive case management
    Li Ren Chang
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Yun Lin branch, Yunlin, Taiwan
    PLoS ONE 6:e26378. 2011
    ..Besides, autonomic modulation and its association with health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in this population remain unexplored...
  38. ncbi Differential propensity in recognition of prepsychotic phenomena among psychiatrists, clinical psychologists and school counsellors
    Chen Chung Liu
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    Early Interv Psychiatry 4:275-82. 2010
    ..This study was conducted to assess differences among three types of mental health professionals in the recognition of prepsychotic phenomena...
  39. ncbi Psychometric evaluation of Chinese version of Violence Scale for objective rating among inpatients with schizophrenia
    Shing Chia Chen
    Department of Nursing, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, 1, Jen Ai Road, Sec 1, Taipei 100, Taiwan, ROC
    J Clin Nurs 18:1889-96. 2009
    ..The psychometric properties of the Chinese version of Violence Scale in clinical service setting were examined...
  40. ncbi Association of the 3' region of COMT with schizophrenia in Taiwan
    Yi Ling Chien
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Yun Lin branch, Yunlin, Taiwan
    J Formos Med Assoc 108:301-9. 2009
    ..This study aims to clarify the association between these three SNPs and their haplotypes with schizophrenia and neurocognitive functioning, using both case-control and family-based designs...
  41. ncbi Individual and family correlates for cigarette smoking among Taiwanese college students
    Susan Shur Fen Gau
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei 10002, Taiwan
    Compr Psychiatry 50:276-85. 2009
    ..This college-based questionnaire survey aimed to explore the individual, family, and peer correlates for cigarette smoking among first-year college students...
  42. ncbi Genome-wide association study of treatment refractory schizophrenia in Han Chinese
    Ying Jay Liou
    Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    PLoS ONE 7:e33598. 2012
    ..This study suggests that rs28362691 in NFKB1 might be involved in the development of TRS...
  43. ncbi Association between sleep problems and symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in young adults
    Susan S F Gau
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, Chung Shan South Road, Taipei, Taiwan
    Sleep 30:195-201. 2007
    ..To examine the association between sleep-related problems and symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in a community sample of young adults in Taiwan...
  44. ncbi Brain responses of explicit and implicit memory: An event-related potential study
    Ming Jang Chiu
    Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    Neuroreport 17:1483-6. 2006
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  45. ncbi Aripiprazole and haloperidol: beneficial combination antipsychotic therapy for a schizophrenic patient
    Joseph Kuo
    Department of Psychiatry, Lotung St Mary s Hospital, Ilan, Taiwan
    Clin Neuropharmacol 31:173-5. 2008
    ..Its partial agonism is said to protect the patient from the side effects caused by full antagonists at the same time that its antagonism treats the schizophrenia effectively...
  46. ncbi Morbidity risk of psychiatric disorders among the first degree relatives of schizophrenia patients in Taiwan
    Ching-Jui Chang
    Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei
    Schizophr Bull 28:379-92. 2002
    ..0 to 5.9) was greater than that of schizophrenia alone (9.3 to 14.4). Thus, including schizophrenia-related personality disorders in the spectrum did not increase power for linkage analysis of schizophrenia...
  47. ncbi Linkage evidence of schizophrenia to loci near neuregulin 1 gene on chromosome 8p21 in Taiwanese families
    Chih-Min Liu
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, and College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 134:79-83. 2005
    ..The results provide suggestive linkage evidence of schizophrenia to loci near NRG1 on chromosome 8p21 in an ethnically distinct Taiwanese sample. Further exploration of the candidate gene and nearby chromosome regions is warranted...
  48. ncbi Brief alcoholism screening questionnaire: establishment and validity in Taiwanese
    Hai-Gwo Hwu
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    J Formos Med Assoc 102:250-6. 2003
    ..1 to 90.3%) in diverse clinical settings. CONCLUSIONS: A 4-item BASQ was established with adequate validity for clinical and public health application in the early detection of alcoholism in Taiwanese subjects...
  49. ncbi Re-examining sustained attention deficits as vulnerability indicators for schizophrenia: stability in the long term course
    Shi K Liu
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, 7 Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei 100, Taiwan
    J Psychiatr Res 40:613-21. 2006
    ..We concluded that there is substantial heterogeneity in schizophrenia patients' long term pattern in sustained attention deficits and those with severe impairment might represent a subgroup with stable vulnerability to schizophrenia...
  50. ncbi Memory impairment and auditory evoked potential gating deficit in schizophrenia
    Ming H Hsieh
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    Psychiatry Res 130:161-9. 2004
    ..The modality-specific impairment of implicit learning in schizophrenia may reflect a failure of adaptive filtering on the flooding input from color patterns...
  51. ncbi Patterns and clinical correlates of neuropsychologic deficits in patients with schizophrenia
    Shi-Kai Liu
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    J Formos Med Assoc 105:978-91. 2006
    ..Despite evidence suggesting that disease chronicity entailed a decline in selective cognitive domains, the trajectory of the neuropsychologic deficits remains to be examined by further longitudinal studies...
  52. ncbi Prevalence and determinants of workplace violence of health care workers in a psychiatric hospital in Taiwan
    Wen Ching Chen
    Yu Li Hospital, Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Taiwan
    J Occup Health 50:288-93. 2008
    ..A high anxiety level was associated with the occurrence of PV. These results need to be corroborated by future investigation. A training program may be required for high risk groups to reduce workplace violence...
  53. ncbi Deficits in sustained attention in schizophrenia and affective disorders: stable versus state-dependent markers
    Shi K Liu
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Tapei
    Am J Psychiatry 159:975-82. 2002
    ..CONCLUSIONS: Continuous Performance Test deficits are stable vulnerability indicators for schizophrenia, mediating indicators for bipolar disorder, and state-dependent indicators for major depression...
  54. ncbi HTF9C gene of 22q11.21 region associates with schizophrenia having deficit-sustained attention
    Yu Li Liu
    Division of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Research, National Health Research Institute, Taiwan
    Psychiatr Genet 17:333-8. 2007
    ....
  55. ncbi Health-related quality of life of Chinese people with schizophrenia in Hong Kong and Taipei: a cross-sectional analysis
    Sally Wai chi Chan
    The Nethersole School of Nursing, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong
    Res Nurs Health 30:261-9. 2007
    ..Schizophrenia has an impact on many aspects of a person's functioning. A rehabilitation model that takes into account symptoms, financial situation, family support, and social functioning is required...
  56. ncbi Genome scan of Han Chinese schizophrenia families from Taiwan: confirmation of linkage to 10q22.3
    Stephen V Faraone
    Department of Psychiatry, SUNY Upstate Medical University, 750 East Adams St, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA
    Am J Psychiatry 163:1760-6. 2006
    ..To address this issue, the authors ascertained 606 Han Chinese families comprising 1,234 affected members...
  57. ncbi Teachers' knowledge, beliefs and attitudes concerning schizophrenia- a cross-cultural approach in Japan and Taiwan
    Takahiro Kurumatani
    Osaka Juvenile Classification Home, Osaka, Japan
    Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 39:402-9. 2004
    ....
  58. ncbi Efficacy and safety of aripiprazole in the acute treatment of schizophrenia in Chinese patients with risperidone as an active control: a randomized trial
    Hung Yu Chan
    Taoyuan Mental Hospital, Taoyuan County, Taiwan
    J Clin Psychiatry 68:29-36. 2007
    ..Studies of aripiprazole in Asian populations are scarce. This study aimed to investigate the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of aripiprazole in Chinese patients with acute schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder...
  59. ncbi Effects of olanzapine plasma concentrations on depressive symptoms in schizophrenia: a pilot study
    Hsien-Yuan Lane
    J Clin Psychopharmacol 22:530-2. 2002
  60. ncbi Changing needs and new perspectives for psychiatry and mental health services in Taiwan
    Hai-Gwo Hwu
    Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine and National Taiwan University Hospital
    Seishin Shinkeigaku Zasshi 108:1167-73. 2006
  61. ncbi Factors related to perceived needs of primary caregivers of patients with schizophrenia
    Ling Ling Yeh
    Institute of Long Term Care, College of Health Science, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan
    J Formos Med Assoc 107:644-52. 2008
    ..The present study was designed to assess the perceived needs of caregivers so that adequate services can be provided for them in the community...