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Emotional management therapy in early psychosis.
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EMT can be effective in early psychosis, especially for cognitive functioning, with chronic patients improving more than patients with early psychosis.Abstract:
Background Emotional management therapy (EMT) aims to improve handling of emotional stress in schizophrenia. It consists of two sub-programmes: the first includes relaxation techniques, the second stress coping skills. Method A pilot study of EMT in 19 patients with early psychosis produced positive results and a post-hoc study of 16 patients was commenced. Results EMT showed positive results, with chronic patients improving more than patients with early psychosis. Conclusion EMT can be effective in early psychosis, especially for cognitive functioning.read more
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Dementia praecox and paraphrenia
TL;DR: "Dementia Praecox and Paraphrenia" (1919) was the book in which Kraepelin first presented his work on schizophrenia to the English-speaking world, and it was probably the most influential psychiatric text of the entire 20th century, and has now become rare.
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Facial discrimination and emotional recognition in schizophrenia and affective disorders.
TL;DR: Those with schizophrenia showed deficits on all four tasks when compared with controls and did worse than patients with depression on the emotion tasks, suggesting that patients with schizophrenia are impaired on a broader range of facial perception skills.
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Facial expression and emotional face recognition in schizophrenia and depression
Wolfgang Gaebel,Wolfgang Wölwer +1 more
TL;DR: It was found that schizophrenics and depressives are characterized by different quantitative, qualitative, and temporal patterns of affect-related dysfunctions, and differences in patterns of Affect-related behavioral deficits may reflect Dysfunctions in different underlying psychobiological systems.