Recovery from schizophrenia: is it possible?

A. Vita; S. Barlati

DOI:10.1097/YCO.0000000000000407

Corpus ID: 35299996

Recovery from schizophrenia: is it possible?

@article{Vita2018RecoveryFS,
  title={Recovery from schizophrenia: is it possible?},
  author={A. Vita and S. Barlati},
  journal={Current Opinion in Psychiatry},
  year={2018},
  volume={31},
  pages={246–255}
}

A. Vita, S. Barlati

Published 2018

Medicine, Psychology

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

Purpose of review Schizophrenia has a heterogeneous range of end states, from severe cases requiring repeated hospitalization to cases in which a single illness episode is followed by complete remission. The purpose of the present review is to examine recent literature on recovery in schizophrenia, focusing on the predictive factors and on the possibility to achieve it. Recent findings Roughly half of schizophrenia patients recovered or significantly improved over the long term, suggesting that… CONTINUE READING

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