Assessment
Textbook descriptions of schizophrenia are of male-type schizophrenia. When assessing women, clinicians may miss a first episode of schizophrenia, because the woman may seem too old for a first…

On magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, reduced cortical brain areas, small left hippocampal formations, and enlarged lateral ventricles are present more often in male than in female patients with schizophrenia. There…

Female patients with schizophrenia, more often than men, are able to enter into and maintain social roles. For instance, at first occurrence of illness, roughly one-third of women are married,…

Adult-onset schizophrenia is preceded in childhood by mild neuromotor, cognitive, and behavioral anomalies that occur with the same frequency in boys and girls during early childhood. But from school age on,…

Gender effects are important to schizophrenia. Why is that so? First, they are important because of the many differences between men’s and women’s experience of schizophrenia. Clinicians need to learn to recognize these differences…