Sentences with phrase «for psychosis in»

A preliminary exploration of predictors of outcome and cognitive mechanisms of change in cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis in people not taking antipsychotic medication.

Psychometric properties of translated outcome measures of cognitive behavioural therapy for psychosis in the Chinese context.

Not exact matches

Whenever pluralism becomes too content with a relaxed model of «dialogue,» it can ignore the need for conflict and the actualities of systematic distortions in the personal (psychosis), historical (alienation and oppression) and religious (sin) dimensions of every person, culture and tradition.

Or, consider this example: First - admission rates for alcoholic psychosis (to mental hospitals in New York State) of those born in foreign countries (figures are per 100,000 of the same nationality in New York state hospitals, 1929 - 31): Irish — 25.6 %; Scandinavian — 7.8 %; Italian — 48 %; English — 4.3 %; German — 3.8 %; Jews (all nationalities)-- 0.5 %.

When one encounters persons in whom the growth elan has been frozen for many years in a self - crippling psychosis, the inadequacy of Rogers» understanding of such grotesquely distorted personhood is evident.

Since then Jacob has explored, with a host of medical researchers, possible uses for the drug, in ailments ranging from strokes to psychosis, from athlete's foot to baldness.

Adebayor began his slide into psychosis after his big money move from Arsenal to Man City and has never looked as good for any of the other clubs he dressed for as he did in North London.

The treatment offered for postpartum psychosis is similar to the treatment given for postpartum depression, except that it may have to be administered in a highly structured and secure environment such as a hospital or mental health facility.

Postpartum Psychosis: ~ occurs in less than 1 % of moms ~ onset may occur one day after delivery, many occur by 3 months, the rest by 1 year postpartum ~ symptoms include agitation, bursts of anger, racing thoughts, rapid speech, panic, irrational thoughts, insomnia, hallucinations, inability to care for self and baby, thoughts of suicide / infanticide, paranoia ~ treatment can include medication, hospitalization, ECT, and psychotherapy

For women who experienced postpartum psychosis in the past, preventive hormonal therapy postpartum is sometimes used.

In addition, it is important for doctors and other mental health professionals to be trained to diagnose postpartum depression, anxiety, OCD and psychosis to insure the proper treatment and education of their patients and their families.

The section on telling postpartum psychosis (having persistent thoughts of harming your children) vs. postpartum OCD (having persistent thoughts that something bad is going to happen to your children and trying to prevent it) is extremely important and will probably result in hundreds of women getting treatment for PPOCD who otherwise would have thought they would be seen as monsters.

Baby blues are common for the first few weeks, but as many as one in seven women experience a perinatal mood or anxiety disorder, such as depression, anxiety, OCD, and even psychosis.

«For women who only have postpartum episodes, I always recommend, «Baby comes out, lithium goes in,» and you provide immediate medication to prevent an episode of psychosis,» Wisner said.

«Many efforts to use clinical documentation in electronic health records for research aim to identify individual symptoms, like the presence or absence of psychosis,» said Thomas McCoy Jr., M.D., co-first author with Sheng Yu, Ph.D..

The study published in the journal Schizophrenia Bulletin reports preliminary results showing that a blood test, when used in psychiatric patients experiencing symptoms that are considered to be indicators of a high risk for psychosis, identifies those who later went on to develop psychosis.

The researchers also measured increased glutamate levels in patients, which lines up with strong support for elevated glutamate reported in other studies of first - episode psychosis.

Supplementing diets for three months with daily two - gram doses of fish oil, a source of omega 3 fatty acids, was shown in a forthcoming study by University of Melbourne researcher Paul Amminger to reduce conversion to psychosis among 81 high - risk patients.

Children with high everyday levels of a protein released into the blood in response to infection are at greater risk of developing depression and psychosis in adulthood, according to new research which suggests a role for the immune system in mental illness.

News stories in recent months have blamed flakka for incidents of extreme violence, paranoid psychoses, compulsive nudity, zombie - like behavior and even «superhuman strength.»

Until now, treatments for trauma in psychosis have focused on post-traumatic stress disorder rather than specific symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions.

But when physicians interviewed patients hospitalized after their initial psychotic episode, they were startled to learn that in many cases, «people began experiencing changes in cognition, behavior, and perception for months or years» before psychosis struck, Heinssen says.

Psychologist Rachel Loewy has been considering how to prevent psychosis in young people for years.

Statistically significant hazard ratios for specific groups of psychiatric disorders were found for schizophrenia and psychoses (1.27, 1.16 - 1.38), affective disorders (1.32, 1.25 - 1.39), anxiety and other neurotic disorders (1.37, 1.32 - 1.42), mental and behavioural syndromes including eating disorders (1.13, 1.04 - 1.24), mental retardation (1.28, 1.17 - 1.40), mental development disorders including autism spectrum disorders (1.22, 1.16 - 1.28), and behavioural and emotional disorders including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)(1.40, 1.34 - 1.46), when compared with rates in naturally conceived children.

«Many adolescents and young adults who are at high risk for psychosis smoke marijuana regularly or have a cannabis use disorder,» said Margaret Haney, PhD, professor of neurobiology (in Psychiatry) at CUMC and senior author of the paper.

Although exercise has been shown to be an effective treatment for people with long - term schizophrenia, no studies have assessed its effects on psychiatric symptoms in young adults with early psychosis, until now.

An alteration in the neuregulin - 1 gene — a single change in one letter of the DNA code for the protein — has been found in families with schizophrenia and linked to late - onset Alzheimer's disease with psychosis.

Previous studies have found an association between marijuana use and psychosis in the general population, but none have rigorously examined marijuana's effects in those at greatest risk for psychosis.

«Although this was a small, preliminary study, it suggests that marijuana may affect individuals at high risk for psychosis differently than other marijuana users, by briefly inducing psychotic - like experiences and impairing their cognition,» said Nehal Vadhan, PhD, a psychologist and associate professor in Psychiatry and Molecular Medicine at Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine and first author of the paper.

One that cannabis use is a causal factor for schizophrenia, or that it precipitates psychosis in vulnerable people.

Joseph Firth, the lead author on the study, said: «Establishing an exercise regime for people with psychosis is likely to be much more effective when they are younger, and in the earliest stages of treatment.

«While larger studies are needed to confirm these findings, they may aid clinicians in their guidance to individuals at risk for psychosis about marijuana's potential effects.»

Immune abnormalities in patients with psychosis have been recognized for over a century, but it has been only relatively recently that scientists have identified specific immune mechanisms that seem to directly produce symptoms of psychosis, including hallucinations and delusions.

Professor Clive Ballard from the Wolfson Centre for Age - Related Diseases at the IoPPN, King's College London, said: «Our findings clearly indicate serious risks associated with antipsychotics and highlight the need for greater caution in treating psychosis in Parkinson's disease.

«Also, are these antibodies producing symptoms in everyone or do they function as a probe of an underlying, perhaps genetic, vulnerability for psychosis?»

«The antibodies we have detected in children having a first episode of acute psychosis suggest there is a distinct subgroup for whom autoimmunity plays a role in their illness,» said Dr. Fabienne Brilot, senior author on the article and Head of the Neuroimmunology Group at The Children's Hospital at Westmead in Sydney.

Antipsychotics were originally developed for use in patients with schizophrenia or psychosis, but the study shows that «off - label» prescribing of these drugs to treat the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia is a common practice in care homes.

These include the mood disorders group, which proposes including bereaved people in the definition of major depression, and the psychotic disorders group, which is considering adding attenuated psychosis syndrome, a controversial diagnosis for identifying young people at risk of developing schizophrenia.

The team measured levels of anandamide in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of 47 people suffering their first bout of schizophrenia, but who had not yet taken any drugs for it, and 26 people who had symptoms of psychosis and have a high risk of schizophrenia.

«The antibodies we have detected in children having a first episode of acute psychosis suggest there is a distinct subgroup for whom autoimmunity plays a role in their illness,» says the University of Sydney's Dr Fabienne Brilot, the senior author on the paper and Head of the Neuroimmunology Group at The Children's Hospital at Westmead in Sydney.

Many antipsychotics show varying affinities for the different dopamine receptors but blockade of the dopamine - 2 receptor (D2R) specifically has proved to be indispensable in the clinical management of psychosis.

Identifying functional network changing patterns in individuals at clinical high - risk for psychosis and patients with early illness schizophrenia: A group ICA study

According to Andreassen, the study's senior author, some think of schizophrenia as a «side effect» arising from advantageous variants in genes that are related to the development of human traits, such as cognitive and language skills, that may have increased risks for developing psychoses.

The institute has become a magnet for other scientists, including Stephan Heckers, who arrived from the famed McLean Hospital in Boston in 2006 to chair the department of psychiatry and to continue his studies of the mechanism of psychosis.

He is a professor in the UC Davis Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, and the director of the UC Davis NIMH Conte Center, Behavioral Health Center for Excellence and Early Psychosis Clinical and Research Programs.

Dr. Sophia Frangou, who heads the section of Neurobiology of Psychosis, said: «It is very rewarding to see the Institute of Psychiatry recognised for our work in Bipolar Disorder.»

Disorders of cognition, dementia and psychosis, as well as dysexecutive syndrome, are common in PD patients (for reviews, see [54,55]-RRB-.

For men and women combined, we found evidence that the rate of non-affective psychosis in refugees compared with migrants varied by region of origin (table 3 ⇓; likelihood ratio test P = 0.05).

Children born to mothers who gained too little weight during pregnancy were at increased risk for schizophrenia and other non-affective psychoses later in life, according to new epidemiological research from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.

Below is a list of clinics around the world that specialize in early diagnosis and treatment for schizophrenia and psychosis (delusions, etc).