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Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines




Disease substance abuse
Phenotype C0036341|schizophrenia
Sentences 19
PubMedID- 24839596 “self-medication hypothesis” of substance abuse in schizophrenia suggests that schizophrenic patients use substances to self-medicate either depression [46], positive or negative symptoms [47], or extrapyramidal symptoms [9].
PubMedID- 24324839 Patients had no psychiatric disorder other than schizophrenia, no history of substance abuse or dependence, and no history of severe medical or neurological disorder.
PubMedID- 21629845 The present study examined substance use outcomes and neurological and psychiatric symptoms in substance abusers with and without schizophrenia and in non-abusing schizophrenia patients undergoing a 12-week treatment with the atypical antipsychotic quetiapine.
PubMedID- 20669315 Extrapyramidal symptoms in substance abusers with and without schizophrenia and in nonabusing patients with schizophrenia.
PubMedID- 21423445 The high prevalence of substance abuse in patients with schizophrenia has sometimes been interpreted as self-medication for negative symptoms, anhedonia, depression or neuroleptic side effects, but no convincing evidence supports this idea (mueser et al., 1998; d'souza et al., 2006).
PubMedID- 22907121 substance abuse in individuals with schizophrenia is very common; it has become the most prevalent comorbid psychiatric condition associated with schizophrenia and contributes to an unfavourable disease course [65].
PubMedID- 22966436 The high rate of noncompliance can be explained by poor insight into illness, cognitive deficits, and elevated substance abuse associated with schizophrenia and by side effects associated with antipsychotics such as anhedonia and extrapyramidal symptoms (eps) [3].
PubMedID- 21389110 We tested this hypothesis by examining age at onset of psychosis and cognition in schizophrenia patients with no substance abuse other than cannabis and tobacco and compared these with patients who had never used cannabis.
PubMedID- 20647266 Despite a high prevalence of schizophrenia patients with comorbid substance abuse, little is known about possible impacts on the brain.
PubMedID- 23055987 Further studies are necessary to understand the role of endocannabinoids in substance abusers with and without schizophrenia and to examine therapeutic implications.
PubMedID- 20406460 Exclusion criteria eliminated individuals with cognitive impairment unrelated to hiv, such as: (1) neurological conditions (e.g., head injury, seizure disorder); (2) medical illness unrelated to hiv (e.g., chronic hepatic or renal failure, malignancy) or severe hiv-related disease (current opportunistic infection); (3) current fever; (4) severe psychiatric disorder (e.g., schizophrenia); (5) a history of substance abuse; and (6) inability to function independently.
PubMedID- 25815257 There is consistent evidence that this trait is independently associated with alcohol and substance abuse in patients with schizophrenia and related disorders.
PubMedID- 21365002 schizophrenia); (5) a history of substance abuse; (6) sensory impairment (e.g.
PubMedID- 22273390 Along these lines, increasing evidence supports the possible beneficial properties of atypical neuroleptics in schizophrenia associated with substance abuse disorders [43].
PubMedID- 23532750 Previous studies have indicated that substance abuse in patients with schizophrenia can worsen eps.
PubMedID- 22170735 The management of comorbid substance abuse in schizophrenia relies on the use of antipsychotic medications.
PubMedID- 22869037 The epidemiologic catchment area study reported a 4.6-fold increase in the prevalence of any substance abuse in patients with schizophrenia compared to the general population.10 alcohol is most commonly used, with a lifetime prevalence of abuse or dependence of 33.7% compared to 27.5% for all other drugs.
PubMedID- 24403872 substance abuse among individuals with schizophrenia is very high.
PubMedID- 24478729 Scz + sa, schizophrenia patients with past substance abuse; con + sa, control participants with past substance abuse.

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