Current Issue 30 December 2011, Vol. 190, No. 2

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Schizophrenia

Perceptual priming in schizophrenia evaluated by word fragment and word stem completion
30 December 2011(Vol. 190 | No. 2 | Pages 167-171)
María José Soler, Juan Carlos Ruiz, Martín Vargas, Carmen Dasí, Inma Fuentes

Facial emotion recognition in Chinese with schizophrenia at early and chronic stages of illness
30 December 2011(Vol. 190 | No. 2 | Pages 172-176)
Joey Shuk-Yan Leung, Tatia M.C. Lee, Chi-Chiu Lee

Plasma asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) concentrations in patients with first and multiple episode schizophrenia
30 December 2011(Vol. 190 | No. 2 | Pages 177-180)
Cemil Celik, Tuncer Cayci, Barbaros Ozdemir, Emin Ozgur Akgul, Serkan Zincir, Adem Balikci, Ozcan Uzun, Halil Yaman

Differentiating men and women with schizophrenia according to their cognitive profiles
24 October 2011
Laurent Lecardeur, Adrianna Mendrek
Sexual dimorphism in cognitive function has been widely demonstrated in healthy subjects; typically healthy females outperformed males on verbal abilities, whereas males exhibit superiority over femal...
Socio–cognitive–behavioral structural equation model of internalized stigma in people with severe and persistent mental illness should include personality dimensions
24 October 2011
Branka Aukst Margetić, Miro Jakovljević, Branimir Margetić
We have read with interest the article “Proposal of a socio–cognitive–behavioral structural equation model of internalized stigma in people with severe and persistent mental illness” (), which assesse...
The nature of diminished pleasure in individuals at risk for or affected by schizophrenia
24 October 2011
Diane Carol Gooding, Madeline Johnson Pflum
We read the recent article with considerable interest. In their sizable sample of schizophrenia outpatients (n=86) and community controls (n=59), the investigators observed that the two groups differ...
Does Toxoplasma gondii play a role in obsessive–compulsive disorder?
24 October 2011
William Taboas, Dean McKay, Steven Taylor
In a recent article appearing in the journal, reasoned that because Toxoplasma gondii affects the basal ganglia, and because basal ganglia pathology is implicated in obsessive–compulsive disorder (OC...
COMT haplotype analyses in Malaysian with schizophrenia
24 October 2011
Shiau Foon Tee, Pek Yee Tang, Han Chern Loh
Abstract: The present study included a total 261 patients with schizophrenia and 261 healthy controls to replicate the genetic association between COMT gene and schizophrenia using a haplotype block-b...

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Psychiatry Research provides very rapid publication of short but complete research reports in the field of psychiatry. The scope of the journal encompasses:

Biochemical, physiological, genetic, psychological, and social determinants of human behavior;
assessment of human behavior and subjective state;
evaluation of somatic and non-somatic psychiatric treatments.

In addition, reports of clinically related basic studies in the fields of neuropharmacology, neurochemistry, neuroendocrinology, electrophysiology, psychology, genetics, and brain imaging are published. Significant methodological advances such as instrumentation, clinical scales, and assays directly applicable to psychiatric research are also appropriate.