A ddressing cultural issues associated with health care among patients with severe mental disorders is part of recovery-oriented care (1). This is in line with the concept of "psychiatry for the person," which has been advanced in recent years by the World Psychiatric Association. The concept places the patient's whole person at the center of clinical care and health promotion, at both individual and community levels (2).Obviously, religion is part of the cultural dimension of humans. Religion, in its broadest sense, encompasses spirituality (concern with the transcendent and with the significance and meaning of life and similar issues) and religiousness (specific behavioral, social, and doctrinal practices and denominational characteristics). Spirituality and religiousness have been identified as pivotal in the psychological process of recovery from severe mental disorders such as schizophrenia, in that they may provide meaning and hope in suffering (3,4). Nevertheless, ways of addressing religion in clinical settings remain to be established, particularly among individuals with severe disorders, such as psychosis (5).Some studies have shown the importance of religion to patients with psychosis. A study of 406 persons with persistent mental illness found that 80% used religious beliefs or practices to cope with daily difficulties or frustrations, particularly those

DSM-IV criteria) were not included. -Scanning Procedures: Patients and controls were scanned with a head coil in a 1.5 T magnet, using a whole-brain echo plannar DTI sequence with 25 gradient directions and b = 900 mm/s2, 128 Â 128 matrix and 25 cm FOV. -Data Analysis: Image Processing and Statistical Analyses: The original DTI data were transferred to a PC based Linux workstation, anonymized and converted to NIFTI format, and then processed to obtain the fractional anisotropy (FA) maps after eddy currents correction. Then an analysis looking for regional significant differences in FA values between both groups was carried with the novel TBSS (Tract-based Spatial Statistics) approach, included in the FSL package, for improved data registration method. Voxelwise statistics were done at the final step.Results: First-episode psychosis patients showed significant (corrected P).Summary: The aim of this fMRI study was to investigate the effect of arousal intensity (high/low arousal) and identify potential sex differences in performance and brain function associated with emotional memory in The 15th Biennial Winter Workshop in Pyschoses e123

We investigated the association between densities in gray matter (GMD) and white matter (WMD) phenotypes and positive (PS) and negative (NS) symptoms in 40 schizophrenia patients (SZ). Cerebral densities were compared with 41 normal controls (NC) matched for age and sex using voxel-based morphometry on T1-3T-MRI. We found decreased GMD in the anterior cingulate-temporal gyri and increased GMD in the posterior cingulate gyrus in SZ relative to NC. WMD reduction was found in the inferior frontal and posterior parietal regions in SZ relative to NC. GMD in the insula/caudate correlated with PS, while GMD in the middle frontal gyrus and cerebellum correlated with NS. WMD in the middle frontal and superior frontal regions correlated with PS and NS respectively. Invers correlations were found between GMD in the parietal lobe and the uvula with PS. An inverse correlation was found between GMD in the cerebellum and NS. Inverse correlation was also found in the WMD of the occipital region and superior frontal regions with PS and NS respectively. Comparison between male groups revealed decreased total GMD in male patients, while no differences were observed between female groups. These correlational findings suggest that symptom profiles in schizophrenia show unique GM/WM phenotypes.