Aggressive patients often target psychiatrists and psychiatric residents, yet most clinicians
are insufficiently trained in violence risk assessment and management. Consequently, many …

The DSM-5 formulation presents an opportunity to refine the negative symptom assessments
that are crucial for a schizophrenia diagnosis. This review traces the history of negative …

Objective Aggression in schizophrenia is a major societal issue, leading to physical harm,
stigmatization, patient distress, and higher health care costs. Impulsivity is associated with …

OBJECTIVE: Poor insight into illness is commonly associated with schizophrenia and has
implications for the clinical outcome of the disease. A better understanding of the neurobiology …

Research has demonstrated that the extent to which an individual integrates a traumatic
event into their identity (“trauma centrality”) positively correlates with posttraumatic stress …

Social attachment is a biological and affective need. When this need is not met, people
experience loneliness. Loneliness is associated with impaired social cognition, and is a risk …

Vitamin D plays crucial roles in neuroprotection and neurodevelopment, and low levels are
commonly associated with schizophrenia. We considered if the association was spurious or …

… Lastly, I would like to specifically thank my good friend Daniel Antonius, who, aside from
contributing significantly to produce this book, has helped give me perspective on a lot of …

The diagnosis of schizophrenia includes “positive” and “negative” symptoms. These titles
were developed to respectively reflect if the symptoms are additions to normal experiences, …

BACKGROUND: Ambivalence and anhedonia have long been identified as schizophrenic
symptoms. However, ambivalence has rarely been studied, and in most evocative studies, …