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2. Effect of anticholinergic burden on brain activity during Working Memory and real-world functioning in patients with schizophrenia
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Selvaggi, Pierluigi, primary, Fazio, Leonardo, additional, Toro, Veronica Debora, additional, Mucci, Armida, additional, Rocca, Paola, additional, Martinotti, Giovanni, additional, Cascino, Giammarco, additional, Siracusano, Alberto, additional, Zeppegno, Patrizia, additional, Pergola, Giulio, additional, Bertolino, Alessandro, additional, Blasi, Giuseppe, additional, Galderisi, Silvana, additional, Rampino, Antonio, additional, Stolfa, Giuseppe, additional, Antonucci, Linda Antonella, additional, Giordano, Giulia Maria, additional, Bucci, Paola, additional, Perrottelli, Andrea, additional, Brasso, Claudio, additional, Del Favero, Elisa, additional, Montemagni, Cristiana, additional, Pettorusso, Mauro, additional, Chiappini, Stefania, additional, D'Andrea, Giacomo, additional, Monteleone, Palmiero, additional, Corrivetti, Giulio, additional, Del Buono, Gianfranco, additional, Di Lorenzo, Giorgio, additional, Niolu, Cinzia, additional, Ribolsi, Michele, additional, Gramaglia, Carla, additional, Gambaro, Eleonora, additional, and Feggi, Alessandro, additional
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- 2023
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3. The influence of autistic symptoms on social and non-social cognition and on real-life functioning in people with schizophrenia: Evidence from the Italian Network for Research on Psychoses multicenter study
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Antonio Vita, Stefano Barlati, Giacomo Deste, Paola Rocca, Alessandro Rossi, Alessandro Bertolino, Eugenio Aguglia, Mario Amore, Antonello Bellomo, Massimo Biondi, Bernardo Carpiniello, Enrico Collantoni, Alessandro Cuomo, Enrico D’Ambrosio, Liliana dell’ Osso, Massimo di Giannantonio, Giulia Maria Giordano, Carlo Marchesi, Palmiero Monteleone, Cristiana Montemagni, Lucio Oldani, Maurizio Pompili, Rita Roncone, Rodolfo Rossi, Alberto Siracusano, Patrizia Zeppegno, Gabriele Nibbio, Silvana Galderisi, Mario Maj, and Italian Network for Research on Psychoses Ceraso Anna University of Brescia Galluzzo Alessandro University of Brescia Lisoni Jacopo University of Brescia Di Palo Piergiuseppe University of Bari Papalino Marco University of Bari Romano Raffaella University of Bari Pinna Federica University of Cagliari Lai Alice University of Cagliari di Santa Sofia Silvia Lostia University of Cagliari Bucci Paola University of Campania “L. Vanvitelli,” Naples Piegari Giuseppe University of Campania “L. Vanvitelli,” Naples Brando Francesco University of Campania “L. Vanvitelli,” Naples Giuliani Luigi University of Campania “L. Vanvitelli,” Naples Signorelli Maria Salvina University of Catania Fusar Poli Laura University of Catania Martinotti Giovanni University of Chieti Pettorruso Mauro University of Chieti Montemitro Chiara University of Chieti Altamura Mario University of Foggia Malerba Stefania University of Foggia Padalino Flavia University of Foggia Amerio Andrea University of Genoa Calcagno Pietro University of Genoa Zampogna Domenico University of Genoa Giusti Laura University of L’Aquila Salza Anna University of L’Aquila Mammarella Silvia University of L’Aquila Pacitti Francesca University of L’Aquila Socci Valentina University of L’Aquila Talevi Dalila University of L’Aquila Gramaglia Carla University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara Feggi Alessandro University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara Jona Amalia University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara Favaro Angela University of Padua Tenconi Elena University of Padua Meneguzzo Paolo University of Padua Ossola Paolo University of Parma Tonna Matteo University of Parma Gerra Maria Lidia University of Parma Carmassi Claudia University of Pisa Gesi Camilla University of Pisa Carpita Barbara University of Pisa Corrivetti Giulio Department of Mental Health, Salerno Cascino Giammarco Department of Mental Health, Salerno del Buono Gianfranco Department of Mental Health, Salerno Di Fabio Fabio Sapienza University of Rome Buzzanca Antonio Sapienza University of Rome Girardi Nicoletta Sapienza University of Rome Brugnoli Roberto Sapienza University of Rome Comparelli Anna Sapienza University of Rome Corigliano Valentina Sapienza University of Rome Fagiolini Andrea University of Siena Bolognesi Simone University of Siena Goracci Arianna University of Siena Di Lorenzo Giorgio Tor Vergata University of Rome Niolu Cinzia Tor Vergata University of Rome Ribolsi Michele Tor Vergata University of Rome Brasso Claudio University of Turin Riccardi Cecilia University of Turin Del Favero Elisa University of Turin
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autism spectrum disorders ,cognition ,psychosocial functioning ,schizophrenia ,social cognition ,Psychiatry ,RC435-571 - Abstract
Abstract Background Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSDs), although conceptualized as separate entities, may share some clinical and neurobiological features. ASD symptoms may have a relevant role in determining a more severe clinical presentation of schizophrenic disorder but their relationships with cognitive aspects and functional outcomes of the disease remain to be addressed in large samples of individuals. Aims To investigate the clinical, cognitive, and functional correlates of ASD symptoms in a large sample of people diagnosed with schizophrenia. Methods The severity of ASD symptoms was measured with the PANSS Autism Severity Scale (PAUSS) in 921 individuals recruited for the Italian Network for Research on Psychoses multicenter study. Based on the PAUSS scores, three groups of subjects were compared on a wide array of cognitive and functional measures. Results Subjects with more severe ASD symptoms showed a poorer performance in the processing speed (p = 0.010), attention (p = 0.011), verbal memory (p = 0.035), and social cognition (p = 0.001) domains, and an overall lower global cognitive composite score (p = 0.010). Subjects with more severe ASD symptoms also showed poorer functional capacity (p = 0.004), real-world interpersonal relationships (p
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- 2020
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4. Investigating the Relationships of P3b with Negative Symptoms and Neurocognition in Subjects with Chronic Schizophrenia
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Giordano, Giulia, Perrottelli, Andrea, Mucci, Armida, Di Lorenzo, Giorgio, Altamura, Mario, Bellomo, Antonello, Brugnoli, Roberto, Corrivetti, Giulio, Girardi, Paolo, Monteleone, Palmiero, Niolu, Cinzia, Galderisi, Silvana, Maj, Mario, Brando, Francesco, Giuliani, Luigi, Merlotti, Eleonora, Pezzella, Pasquale, Piegari, Giuseppe, Carnevale, Raffaella, La Montagna, Maddalena, Ferrentino, Fabiola, Siracusano, Alberto, Comparelli, Anna, Corigliano, Valentina, Cascino, Giammarco, Del Buono, Gianfranco, Giordano, G. M., Perrottelli, A., Mucci, A., Di Lorenzo, G., Altamura, M., Bellomo, A., Brugnoli, R., Corrivetti, G., Girardi, P., Monteleone, P., Niolu, C., Galderisi, S., and Maj, M.
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schizophrenia ,neurocognition ,negative symptoms ,EEG ,P3b ,Settore MED/25 ,General Neuroscience ,Negative symptom ,Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry ,Article ,RC321-571 - Abstract
Neurocognitive deficits and negative symptoms (NS) have a pivotal role in subjects with schizophrenia (SCZ) due to their impact on patients’ functioning in everyday life and their influence on goal-directed behavior and decision-making. P3b is considered an optimal electrophysiological candidate biomarker of neurocognitive impairment for its association with the allocation of attentional resources to task-relevant stimuli, an important factor for efficient decision-making, as well as for motivation-related processes. Furthermore, associations between P3b deficits and NS have been reported. The current research aims to fill the lack of studies investigating, in the same subjects, the associations of P3b with multiple cognitive domains and the expressive and motivation-related domains of NS, evaluated with state-of-the-art instruments. One hundred and fourteen SCZ and 63 healthy controls (HCs) were included in the study. P3b amplitude was significantly reduced and P3b latency prolonged in SCZ as compared to HCs. In SCZ, a positive correlation was found between P3b latency and age and between P3b amplitude and the Attention-vigilance domain, while no significant correlations were found between P3b and the two NS domains. Our results indicate that the effortful allocation of attention to task-relevant stimuli, an important component of decision-making, is compromised in SCZ, independently of motivation deficits or other NS.
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- 2021
5. Premorbid academic and social functioning in patients with schizophrenia and its associations with negative symptoms and cognition
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Bucci, P., Galderisi, S., Mucci, A., Rossi, A., Rocca, P., Bertolino, A., Aguglia, E., Amore, M., Andriola, I., Bellomo, A., Biondi, M., Cuomo, A., Dell'Osso, L., Favaro, A., Gambi, F., Giordano, G. M., Girardi, P., Marchesi, C., Monteleone, P., Montemagni, C., Niolu, C., Oldani, L., Pacitti, F., Pinna, F., Roncone, R., Vita, A., Zeppegno, P., Maj, M., Patriarca, Sara, Pietrafesa, Daria, Aiello, Carmen, Longo, Luisa, Barone, Marina, Romano, Raffaella, Atti, Anna Rita, Barlati, Stefano, Deste, Giacomo, Valsecchi, Paolo, Carpiniello, Bernardo, Tusconi, Massimo, Puddu, Laura, Signorelli, Maria Salvina, Cannavò, Dario, Minutolo, Giuseppe, Corbo, Mariangela, Montemitro, Chiara, Baroni, Gaia, Altamura, Mario, La Montagna, Maddalena, Carnevale, Raffaella, Murri, Martino Belvederi, Calcagno, Pietro, Bugliani, Michele, Pizziconi, Giulia, Logozzo, Francesca, Rossi, Rodolfo, Giusti, Laura, Salza, Anna, Malavolta, Maurizio, Orsenigo, Giulia, Grassi, Silvia, De Bartolomeis, Andrea, Gramaglia, Carla, Gattoni, Eleonora, Gambaro, Eleonora, Tenconi, Elena, Ferronato, Luisa, Collantoni, Enrico, Tonna, Matteo, Ossola, Paolo, Gerra, Maria Lidia, Carmassi, Claudia, Cremone, Ivan Mirko, Carpita, Barbara, Buzzanca, Antonio, Girardi, Nicoletta, Frascarelli, Marianna, Del Casale, Antonio, Comparelli, Anna, Corigliano, Valentina, Siracusano, Alberto, Di Lorenzo, Giorgio, Ribolsi, Michele, Corrivetti, Giulio, Bartoli, Luca, Del Buono, Gianfranco, Fagiolini, Andrea, Bolognesi, Simone, Goracci, Arianna, Mancini, Irene, Bava, Irene, Cardillo, Simona, Bucci P., Galderisi S., Mucci A., Rossi A., Rocca P., Bertolino A., Aguglia E., Amore M., Andriola I., Bellomo A., Biondi M., Cuomo A., dell'Osso L., Favaro A., Gambi F., Giordano G.M., Girardi P., Marchesi C., Monteleone P., Montemagni C., Niolu C., Oldani L., Pacitti F., Pinna F., Roncone R., Vita A., Zeppegno P., Maj M., Patriarca S., Pietrafesa D., Aiello C., Longo L., Barone M., Romano R., Atti A.R., Barlati S., Deste G., Valsecchi P., Carpiniello B., Tusconi M., Puddu L., Signorelli M.S., Cannavo D., Minutolo G., Corbo M., Montemitro C., Baroni G., Altamura M., La Montagna M., Carnevale R., Murri M.B., Calcagno P., Bugliani M., Pizziconi G., Logozzo F., Rossi R., Giusti L., Salza A., Malavolta M., Orsenigo G., Grassi S., De Bartolomeis A., Gramaglia C., Gattoni E., Gambaro E., Tenconi E., Ferronato L., Collantoni E., Tonna M., Ossola P., Gerra M.L., Carmassi C., Cremone I.M., Carpita B., Buzzanca A., Girardi N., Frascarelli M., Del Casale A., Comparelli A., Corigliano V., Siracusano A., Di Lorenzo G., Ribolsi M., Corrivetti G., Bartoli L., Del Buono G., Fagiolini A., Bolognesi S., Goracci A., Mancini I., Bava I., Cardillo S., Bucci, P., Galderisi, S., Mucci, A., Rossi, A., Rocca, P., Bertolino, A., Aguglia, E., Amore, M., Andriola, I., Bellomo, A., Biondi, Maria, Cuomo, Anna, Dell'Osso, L., Favaro, A., Gambi, F., Giordano, G. M., Girardi, P., Marchesi, C., Monteleone, P., Montemagni, C., Niolu, C., Oldani, L., Pacitti, F., Pinna, F., Roncone, R., DE VITA, Anna, Zeppegno, P., Maj, M., Patriarca, Sara, Pietrafesa, Daria, Aiello, Carmen, Longo, Luisa, Barone, Marina, Romano, Raffaella, Atti, Anna Rita, Barlati, Stefano, Deste, Giacomo, Valsecchi, Paolo, Carpiniello, Bernardo, Tusconi, Massimo, Puddu, Laura, Signorelli, Maria Salvina, Cannavò, Dario, Minutolo, Giuseppe, Corbo, Mariangela, Montemitro, Chiara, Baroni, Gaia, Altamura, Mario, La Montagna, Maddalena, Carnevale, Raffaella, Murri, Martino Belvederi, Calcagno, Pietro, Bugliani, Michele, Pizziconi, Giulia, Logozzo, Francesca, Rossi, Rodolfo, Giusti, Laura, Salza, Anna, Malavolta, Maurizio, Orsenigo, Giulia, Grassi, Silvia, De Bartolomeis, Andrea, Gramaglia, Carla, Gattoni, Eleonora, Gambaro, Eleonora, Tenconi, Elena, Ferronato, Luisa, Collantoni, Enrico, Tonna, Matteo, Ossola, Paolo, Gerra, Maria Lidia, Carmassi, Claudia, Cremone, Ivan Mirko, Carpita, Barbara, Buzzanca, Antonio, Girardi, Nicoletta, Frascarelli, Marianna, Del Casale, Antonio, Comparelli, Anna, Corigliano, Valentina, Siracusano, Alberto, Di Lorenzo, Giorgio, Ribolsi, Michele, Corrivetti, Giulio, Bartoli, Luca, Del Buono, Gianfranco, Fagiolini, Andrea, Bolognesi, Simone, Goracci, Arianna, Mancini, Irene, Bava, Irene, Cardillo, Simona, Biondi, M., Cuomo, A., Vita, A., and Casale, Antonio
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Male ,avolition ,Severity of Illness Index ,cognitive functioning ,0302 clinical medicine ,Cognition ,Academic Performance ,Medicine ,Psychopathology ,Depression ,primary negative symptoms ,Middle Aged ,Psychiatric Status Rating Scale ,avolition, cognitive functioning, poor emotion expression, premorbid adjustment, primary negative symptoms ,poor emotion expression ,premorbid adjustment ,Psychiatry and Mental Health ,Memory, Short-Term ,Schizophrenia ,Female ,Schizophrenic Psychology ,medicine.symptom ,Psychosocial ,Social Adjustment ,Clinical psychology ,Human ,Adult ,primary negative symptom ,03 medical and health sciences ,Cognition Disorder ,Memory ,Social cognition ,Humans ,Cognitive Dysfunction ,Cognitive skill ,Social Behavior ,Aged ,Cognition Disorders ,Motivation ,Psychiatric Status Rating Scales ,Settore MED/25 - Psichiatria ,Avolition ,business.industry ,medicine.disease ,030227 psychiatry ,Short-Term ,business ,Neurocognitive ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Objective The study aimed to explore premorbid academic and social functioning in patients with schizophrenia, and its associations with the severity of negative symptoms and neurocognitive impairment. Method Premorbid adjustment (PA) in patients with schizophrenia was compared to early adjustment in unaffected first-degree relatives and healthy controls. Its associations with psychopathology, cognition, and real-life functioning were investigated. The associations of PA with primary negative symptoms and their two factors were explored. Results We found an impairment of academic and social PA in patients (P ≤ 0.000001) and an impairment of academic aspects of early adjustment in relatives (P ≤ 0.01). Patients with poor PA showed greater severity of negative symptoms (limited to avolition after excluding the effect of depression/parkinsonism), working memory, social cognition, and real-life functioning (P ≤ 0.01 to ≤0.000001). Worse academic and social PA were associated with greater severity of psychopathology, cognitive impairment, and real-life functioning impairment (P ≤ 0.000001). Regression analyses showed that worse PA in the academic domain was mainly associated to the impairment of working memory, whereas worse PA in the social domain to avolition (P ≤ 0.000001). Conclusion Our findings suggest that poor early adjustment may represent a marker of vulnerability to schizophrenia and highlight the need for preventive/early interventions based on psychosocial and/or cognitive programs.
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- 2018
6. THE PRECISION PSYCHIATRY. An Individualized Approach to the Diseases
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Del Buono, Gianfranco
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precision psychiatry ,omics ,big data ,biomarkers - Abstract
The Precision Psychiatry is a new emergent topic in Psychiatry, and is “an approach for treatment and prevention that takes into account each person’s variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle”. It promises to be even more transformative than in other fields of medicine, because the psychiatry has not yet benefited from the advanced diagnostic and therapeutic technologies that now form an integral part of other clinical specialties. It may be an epistemological change in the field of psychiatry. This paper briefly highlights the story, the features, and the future of the Precision Psychiatry. Indeed, this approach is becoming a reality with the availability of massive data (derived from physiological recordings, brain imaging, ‘omics’ biomarkers, environmental exposures, self-reported experience).
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- 2018
7. ASSESSING THE CRITICAL ISSUES OF ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTICS IN SCHIZOPHRENIC INPATIENTS
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Franza, Francesco, Solomita, Barbara, Aldi, Gino, Del Buono, Gianfranco, Franza, Francesco, Solomita, Barbara, Aldi, Gino, and Del Buono, Gianfranco
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Antipsychotics are effective in reducing positive and disorganization symptoms of schizophrenia. Although SGAs initially all were believed to be more efficacious and tolerable than FGAs, several data show that the SGAs are no more effective than FGAs. In clinical practice, frequent switching of antipsychotic medications is widespread for lack of efficacy, adverse side effects, and partial or not-compliance response. This study suggested that most clinically stable inpatients with schizophrenia maintain their remission states after being switched to another atypical antipsychotic; but that at the end (after 20 years) of the observation period of our study, 11.54% of the patients assumed again typical antipsychotics (haloperidol).
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- 2017
8. NEUROCOGNITIVE MANAGEMENT OF THE PRIMARY NEGATIVE SYMPTOMS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA: A ROLE OF ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTICS
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Franza, Francesco, Carpentieri, Gabriella, De Guglielmo, Serena, Fasano, Vincenzo, Fiorentino, Nicoletta, Perito, Mariangela, Solomita, Barbara, Del Buono, Gianfranco, Franza, Francesco, Carpentieri, Gabriella, De Guglielmo, Serena, Fasano, Vincenzo, Fiorentino, Nicoletta, Perito, Mariangela, Solomita, Barbara, and Del Buono, Gianfranco
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Patients with schizophrenia have profound and disabling cognitive deficits while negative symptoms represent a separate symptom domain, with respect to depression, neurocognition, and social cognition. Particularly, primary negative symptoms of schizophrenia represent a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge, In this study we try to evaluate the cognitive symptoms in 51 primary negative schizophrenic inpatients by the administration of simple, fast and understandable scales (MMSE, DSST, EpiTrack, PANSS cognitive factor). We also evaluate the correlation with some SGAs (aripiprazole, quetiapine, olanzapine, paliperidone). Our results support the evidence of the use of simple, rapid and acceptable scales for cognitive evaluation in clinical practice. Overall data indicate no statistically significant variations of the negative symptomatology in all the examined sample, although a reduction of the statistical averages in each group is observed (paliperidone and olanzapine, particularly).
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- 2016
9. PSYCHIATRIC CAREGIVER STRESS: CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS OF COMPASSION FATIGUE
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Franza, Francesco, Del Buono, Gianfranco, Pellegrino, Ferdinando, Franza, Francesco, Del Buono, Gianfranco, and Pellegrino, Ferdinando
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The capacity to work productively is a key component of health and emotional well-being. People who work in health care can be exposed to the fatigue of care. Compassion fatigue has been described as an occupational hazard specific to clinical work related severe emotional distress. In our study, we have evaluated compassion fatigue in a mental health group (47 psychiatric staff) and its relationship with inpatients (237 inpatients) affected by some psychiatric disorders. At baseline, the more significant data indicate a high percentage of Job Burnout and Compassion Fatigue in psychiatric nurses (respectively, 39.28%, 28.57%). Significant Compassion Fatigue percentage is present also in psychologist group (36.36%). Finally, in psychiatrists, the exposure to patients increased vicarious trauma (28.57%), but not job burnout. After a year of participation in Balint Groups, the psychiatric staff presented an overall reduction in total mean score in any administered scale (CBI: p<0.0000045; sCFs: (Vicarious Trauma: p<0.0288; Job Burnout: p<0.000001)). Thus, compassion fatigue causes concern among mental health professionals, and Balint Groups may represent a therapeutic strategy to help health professionals to face difficulties in challenging work environments.
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- 2015
10. Assessing the critical issues of atypical antipsychotics in schizophrenic inpatients.
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Franza F, Solomita B, Aldi G, and Del Buono G
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- Haloperidol therapeutic use, Humans, Antipsychotic Agents therapeutic use, Inpatients, Schizophrenia drug therapy
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Antipsychotics are effective in reducing positive and disorganization symptoms of schizophrenia. Although SGAs initially all were believed to be more efficacious and tolerable than FGAs, several data show that the SGAs are no more effective than FGAs. In clinical practice, frequent switching of antipsychotic medications is widespread for lack of efficacy, adverse side effects, and partial or not-compliance response. This study suggested that most clinically stable inpatients with schizophrenia maintain their remission states after being switched to another atypical antipsychotic; but that at the end (after 20 years) of the observation period of our study, 11.54% of the patients assumed again typical antipsychotics (haloperidol).
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- 2017
11. Neurocognitive management of the primary negative symptoms of schizophrenia: a role of atypical antipsychotics.
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Franza F, Carpentieri G, De Guglielmo S, Fasano V, Fiorentino N, Perito M, Solomita B, and Del Buono G
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Patients with schizophrenia have profound and disabling cognitive deficits while negative symptoms represent a separate symptom domain, with respect to depression, neurocognition, and social cognition. Particularly, primary negative symptoms of schizophrenia represent a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge, In this study we try to evaluate the cognitive symptoms in 51 primary negative schizophrenic inpatients by the administration of simple, fast and understandable scales (MMSE, DSST, EpiTrack, PANSS cognitive factor). We also evaluate the correlation with some SGAs (aripiprazole, quetiapine, olanzapine, paliperidone). Our results support the evidence of the use of simple, rapid and acceptable scales for cognitive evaluation in clinical practice. Overall data indicate no statistically significant variations of the negative symptomatology in all the examined sample, although a reduction of the statistical averages in each group is observed (paliperidone and olanzapine, particularly).
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- 2016
12. Psychiatric caregiver stress: clinical implications of compassion fatigue.
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Franza F, Del Buono G, and Pellegrino F
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- Adult, Burnout, Professional diagnosis, Compassion Fatigue diagnosis, Female, Hospitals, Psychiatric, Humans, Male, Mental Disorders psychology, Middle Aged, Risk Factors, Stress, Psychological complications, Stress, Psychological psychology, Surveys and Questionnaires, Burnout, Professional psychology, Compassion Fatigue psychology, Mental Disorders therapy, Patient Care Team, Psychiatric Nursing, Psychiatry
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The capacity to work productively is a key component of health and emotional well-being. People who work in health care can be exposed to the fatigue of care. Compassion fatigue has been described as an occupational hazard specific to clinical work related severe emotional distress. In our study, we have evaluated compassion fatigue in a mental health group (47 psychiatric staff) and its relationship with inpatients (237 inpatients) affected by some psychiatric disorders. At baseline, the more significant data indicate a high percentage of Job Burnout and Compassion Fatigue in psychiatric nurses (respectively, 39.28%, 28.57%). Significant Compassion Fatigue percentage is present also in psychologist group (36.36%). Finally, in psychiatrists, the exposure to patients increased vicarious trauma (28.57%), but not job burnout. After a year of participation in Balint Groups, the psychiatric staff presented an overall reduction in total mean score in any administered scale (CBI: p<0.0000045; sCFs: (Vicarious Trauma: p<0.0288; Job Burnout: p<0.000001)). Thus, compassion fatigue causes concern among mental health professionals, and Balint Groups may represent a therapeutic strategy to help health professionals to face difficulties in challenging work environments.
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- 2015
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