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Introduction: Cognitive deficits particularly in memory, attention, verbal fluency and executive functions are considered to be core and stable features of schizophrenia, with great influence on functional outcomes. There...

A substantial amount of recent research highlighted the health benefits of human-animal interactions. Animal assisted therapies that included pets (cats, dogs), horses and dolphins were conducted in medical and...

The diagnosis of schizophrenia comprises mainly “negative” and “positive”, cognitive, disorganized and affective symptoms. The negative symptoms reflect the absence or the lack of emotional and behavioral functioning and...

Introduction: High prevalence of metabolic syndrome has been reported in patients with schizophrenia. Factors that contribute to the development of physical and biochemical abnormalities due to this syndrome are: sedentary...

Contrary to the stigmatizing perception, alcohol dependence is not a mark of moral decay, but the result of combining environmental, social, cultural and especially biological factors, family studies finding...

Introduction: Dual diagnosis is frequent among psychiatric patients. Alcohol use disorder (AUD) negatively affects the treatment and the progression of co- occurring disorders. The reverse could also be valid,...