Early age of onset, brain morphological changes and non-consistent motor asymmetry in schizophrenic patients.

Previous data suggest abnormalities in the consistence of motor dominance in schizophrenia (e.g. mixed-handedness, poor correlation between hand, eye and foot preferences and an increase of hand-eye crossed dominance). The aim of this work is to examine the clinical significance of hand-eye and hand-foot crossed dominance in a sample of 61 right-handed schizophrenic patients. The application of multivariate analysis revealed that 23 right-handed and non-right-eyed patients (crossed hand-eye dominant group) had a significant earlier clinical onset and smaller brain size, global and frontal area, than 38 right-handed and right-eyed schizophrenics (consistent hand-eye dominance group). These f…

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Relación entre insight, violencia y diagnóstico en pacientes con psicosis

Resumen Introduccion En pacientes con trastornos psiquiatricos el deficit en la capacidad de introspeccion o insight es frecuentemente un problema clinico importante, pero ha sido pocas veces objeto de estudio formal. Los pacientes psicoticos con buen insight suelen cumplir mejor las pautas de medicacion siendo un factor de buen pronostico y muestran menor hostilidad. Con este estudio se pretende valorar si existe una relacion entre el grado de hostilidad del paciente y la conciencia de enfermedad ademas de analizar si el grado de conciencia de enfermedad varia segun el diagnostico del paciente (esquizofrenia vs. trastorno bipolar). Metodologia Se estudiaron en 168 pacientes psicoticos (ent…

Erratum to “Relationship between insight, violence and diagnoses in psychotic patients”

Relationship between insight, violence and diagnoses in psychotic patients

Abstract Introduction Lack of insight is a common clinical problem in psychiatric patients, but few times has been properly studied until recently. Patients with good insight tend to show a better treatment adherence with a better prognosis and show less hostility. This study aims to investigate whether there is a relationship between the hostility degree and insight or not and to analyse if there are insight quantitative differences between the patients regarding their diagnoses. Method One hundred and sixty-eight psychotic patients were studied (including 86 patients with schizophrenia and 43 with bipolar disorder). PANNS P7 (hostility) item and G14 (poor impulse control) were analysed in…