Yuichiro Watanabe, Masataka Otake, Shin Ono, Masaya Ootake, Kazuhiro Murakami, Koichiro Kumagai, Koji Matsuzawa, Hiroyuki Kasahara, Kazuhiro Hori, Toshiyuki Someya
AIM: Oral function in patients with schizophrenia has not been well-characterized. To address this, we performed a cross-sectional study of oral function in Japanese inpatients with schizophrenia. METHODS: We measured oral function, including occlusal force, tongue-lip motor function, tongue pressure, and masticatory function in 130 Japanese inpatients with schizophrenia. We then compared the frequency of clinical signs of oral hypofunction among 63 non-elderly and 67 elderly inpatients with schizophrenia, as well as data from 98 elderly control participants from a previous Japanese study...
April 11, 2024: Neuropsychopharmacology Reports