The Association Between Cognitive Deficits and Clinical Characteristic in First-Episode Drug Naive Patients With Schizophrenia.

ABSTRACT: Background: Schizophrenia is a severe mental disease which characterized by positive symptom, negative symptom, general pathology syndrome and cognitive deficits. In recent years, many studies have investigated the relationship between cognitive deficits and clinical characteristics in schizophrenia, but relatively few studies have been performed on first-episode drug-naïve patients. Methods: Eighty seven first-episode drug-naïve schizophrenia patients were assessed for positive symptom, negative symptom, general pathology symptom and cognitive deficits from the Positive and Negative Symptom Scale and MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery. Psychotics depression were assessed using the Calgary depressing scale for schizophrenia. The relationship between clinical characteristics

SUBMITTER: Peng XJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7950319 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature