The Global Assessment of Functioning, or GAF, scale is used to rate how serious a mental illness may be. It measures how much a person's symptoms affect their day-to-day life on a scale of 0 to 100.

Overall, individuals with schizophrenia reported significantly higher levels of depression (P <.001), poorer social functioning (P <.001), and poorer everyday social functioning (P <.001).

Although an autism spectrum scale has been described in the past, doctors currently diagnose autism with levels. Levels range from 1–3. Share on Pinterest Pollyana Ventura/Getty Images Autism is ...

Five Levels of Personality Functioning. 1. Healthy-Resilient. A healthy-resilient individual feels “at home” with themselves, has a complex, rich, differentiated identity, ...

This was a single-blind randomised controlled trial of a motivational interviewing-based adherence therapy for outpatients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders, using a repeated-measures control ...

The Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) is a scoring system that mental health professionals use to assess how well an individual is functioning in their daily lives. This scale was once used ...

When it comes to understanding the learning and behavior needs of autistic students, executive function (EF) skills are often ...

Newron Pharmaceuticals recently announced positive phase 2a study findings for Evenamide, an oral sodium channel blocker, in individuals with schizophrenia.To assess tolerability, safety and ...

To investigate gene function at a large scale, the researchers combined two powerful genomic technologies. They used CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing to make precise changes, or perturbations, in 35 ...