Sentences with phrase «by psychotic symptoms»

Whereas schizophrenia is characterized primarily by psychotic symptoms, people with schizoaffective disorder have to cope not only with psychosis but also with overlapping periods of severe mood symptoms.

«If someone's preoccupied by their psychotic symptoms, if you can dampen down their thinking, they lose interest in their delusions,» she says.

Not exact matches

It is obvious to me that I altered my brain significantly after years of intense / deep prayer and meditation and that as a result of these contributory experiences I was a high - functioning schizophrenic for a good portion of my life — there were things going on in my biology which predisposed me to being a depressive and a high - functioning schizophrenic but engaging in intense / deep prayer and meditation was only exacerbating this problem by altering my state of consciousness which precipitated the psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena which I experienced.

In February, the Times Union reported that a mental health evaluation found Rizvi claimed to have been tormented by «psychotic - like symptoms» and nightly visits from a «dark and foreboding figure» who «doesn't want me to have friends.»

Our finding that psychotic - like symptoms when young people are «stoned» are predicted by AKT1 variants is an exciting breakthrough as this acute reaction is thought to be a marker of a person's risk of developing psychosis from smoking the drug.»

She says a small, unpublished study done by her group has shown that brain training for people in the early stages of schizophrenia reduced psychotic symptoms.

Psychotic symptoms are reasonably well treated by current medications; however, patients are still left with debilitating cognitive impairments, including in their memory, and so are frequently unable to return to university or work.

schizophrenia — most people affected by schizophrenia experience a range of psychotic symptoms and commonly have difficulty organising their thoughts

Participants had psychotic symptoms, not caused by substance misuse, for > 4 weeks and scored 4 or more on the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS).

Research in a remote WA Aboriginal population demonstrated that heavy alcohol use was associated with psychotic symptoms.12 However, comparison to this survey's findings may be complicated by differences between Cape York and the Torres Strait, including recent legislative restrictions on alcohol in Cape York.

The odds of subjects showing a reduction in psychotic symptoms of 50 % or more decreased by a multiplication factor of 0.87 for every additional year of duration of illness, and decreased by a multiplication factor of 0.15 for every unit increase in severity of illness.

Time to abandon the bio-bio-bio model of psychosis: exploring the epigenetic and psychological mechanisms by which adverse life events lead to psychotic symptoms

Study participants were asked about psychotic symptoms at the age of 11 years and were interviewed at 26 years, by using a diagnostic interview schedule.

The following hypotheses were tested: that the cognitive behaviour therapy would be superior to supportive counselling and routine care, and routine care alone, firstly, in reducing positive psychotic symptoms; secondly, in preventing the exacerbation of positive symptoms and reducing hospital stay; and, thirdly, by using the convention of the previous study of 50 % improvement in positive symptoms as an indicator of considerable clinical improvement, 6 in the number of patients achieving such improvement.

Continued cannabis use might increase the risk for psychotic disorder by impacting on the persistence of symptoms.

Relapse rate defined as re-emergence of symptoms associated with significant disturbance in functioning and social behavior (clinical judgment), which considered time period of symptom exacerbation measured by average outcome of time duration of rehospitalization for psychotic symptom treatment.

In the realm of trait variables, in a longitudinal study of stable outpatients involving an initial assessment and a 9 - mo follow - up session, 24 those who scored high on a self - report measure of trait anxiety at the initial assessment and who experienced one or more «independent» stressful life events (ie, events not caused by patient behavior) during the month prior to the follow - up session showed significant increases in psychotic symptoms compared with those who either were low in trait anxiety or had no independent stressful life events.