Patients' perspectives. Subjective experiences and attitudes of patients with recent onset schizophrenia

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Table of contents

General Introduction

Part I Attitudes of patients concerning psychosis and treatment

Chapter 1.1. Attitudes of patients towards the First Psychotic Episode and the Start of Treatment

Chapter 1.2. Preferences for treatment during a first psychotic episode

Part II Duration of untreated psychosis and outcome

Chapter 2.1. Introduction

Chapter 2.2. Early intervention, social functioning and psychotic relapse of patients with recent onset schizophrenic disorders

Chapter 2.3. Duration of untreated psychosis and long-term course of schizophrenia

Chapter 2.4. Duration of untreated psychosis and outcome of schizophrenia: delay in intensive psychosocial treatment versus delay in treatment with antipsychotic medication

Part III Subjective experiences of patients with schizophrenia related to antipsychotic medication

chapter 3.1. Introduction

Chapter 3.2. Psychometric properties of the Subjective Well0being under Neuroleptics scale (SWN) and the Subjecive Deficit Syndrome Scale (SDSS)

Chapter 3.3. Subjective experiences and stratial dopamine D2 receptor occupancy in patients with schizophrenia rstabilized on olanzapine or risperidone

Chapter 3.4. Subjective experience and D2 receptor occupancy in patients with schizophrenia treated with low dose Olanzapine or Holaperidol; a randomized double-blind study

Part IV Obsessive-compulsive symptoms associated with antipsychotic medication in patients with schizophrenia

Chapter 4.1. Introduction

Chapter 4.2. Clozapine and obsessions in patients with recent-onset schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders

Chapter 4.3.Obsessive-compulsive symptoms during treatment with olanzapine and risperidone, a prospective study of 113 patients with recent onset schizophrenia or related disorders

Summary

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General discussion

Referenties

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Curriculum Vitae

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