Fig. 1: Symptom improvement after treatment among patients with different episodes. | Schizophrenia

Fig. 1: Symptom improvement after treatment among patients with different episodes.

From: Reduced erythrocyte membrane polyunsaturated fatty acid levels indicate diminished treatment response in patients with multi- versus first-episode schizophrenia

Fig. 1

a correlation between PANSS total score reduction and number of episodes; proportion of treatment response in patient subgroups of different episodes. b PANSS reduction after treatment among patients with different episodes. First-episode patients showed the largest improvement in PANSS total scores, positive, general psychopathology, paranoid/belligerence, and depression. No significant differences were found in negative symptoms or other cluster scores (anergia, thought disturbance, and activation). FE, first episode; Spearman correlation, Kruskal–Wallis test and a Dunn–Bonferroni post hoc method were used; *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.

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