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J. Alvir
Researcher at Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Publications - 25
Citations - 811
J. Alvir is an academic researcher from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The author has contributed to research in topics: Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming) & First episode. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 25 publications receiving 803 citations.
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Depression in first-episode schizophrenia.
TL;DR: These findings suggest that depressive symptoms in patients experiencing their first episode of schizophrenia may represent a core part of the acute illness or may occur as a subjective reaction to the experience of psychotic decompensation.
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Qualitative assessment of brain morphology in acute and chronic schizophrenia.
TL;DR: Qualitative evaluation of MRI scans by qualitative assessment can be a useful technique in research and clinical evaluation of patients with schizophrenia, despite its limits in sensitivity.
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The deficit state in first-episode schizophrenia.
David Mayerhoff,Antony Loebel,J. Alvir,Sally Szymanski,Stephen Geisler,Michael Borenstein,J.A. Lieberman +6 more
TL;DR: The prevalence of the deficit syndrome in first-episode schizophrenia varies depending on the criteria used and is lower than that previously described in more chronic patient samples.
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Diabetes and development of tardive dyskinesia.
TL;DR: The authors examined 160 elderly individuals who were beginning neuroleptic treatment; 24 had diabetes and 136 did not, and the cumulative incidence rates of tardive dyskinesia were 54.1% (SE = 5.6%) for the diabetics and 25.6% (SSE = 16.1) for the nondiabetics.