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A study was made of quality of life in schizophrenia depending on years of evolution. In a sample of 100 patients, the quality of life scale of Heinrichs et al. (1984) was used as a measurement instrument for analyzing differences in three study groups (evolution less than five years, six to ten years, over ten years). A progressive decrease occurred in the total scores in three of four CLS categories for schizophrenia of longer duration. In this group, higher scores were obtained in the Instrumental Role category, but the difference was not significant.
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PMID:[Schizophrenia: quality of life and years of evolution]. 858 35

We investigated the vividness of mental imagery and its possible relationship with the predisposition towards hallucinations in 52 schizophrenia (SZ) patients, 44 of their first-degree relatives (R) and two healthy control groups (high-schizotypy [CHS; n=24]; low-schizotypy [CLS; n=24]). We investigated phenomenological and cognitive trait markers of schizophrenia, including cognitive correlates of hallucinations and vividness of mental imagery, and the influence of individual psychopathology. Overall, scores on the mental imagery questionnaire (QMI [Sheehan, P.W., 1967. Reliability of a short test of imagery. Perceptual and Motor Skills 25, 744.]) suggested higher mental imagery vividness in first-degree relatives, high-schizotypy controls and patients, than in low-schizotypy controls. However, vividness of mental imagery was independent of predisposition towards hallucinations and cognitive test performance scores. These results suggest that vividness of mental imagery may be a trait marker across the schizophrenia spectrum. In addition we propose that imagery proneness is relatively independent of the individual psychopathology.
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PMID:Mental imagery vividness as a trait marker across the schizophrenia spectrum. 2053 24