The term was a misnomer because BPD bears little relation to
most psychotic disorders.
Not exact matches
«Some of the
most important applications have been to the training of retarded children, to the elimination of sexual
disorders, to the large - scale amelioration of adult
psychotic behavior, to the training of autistic children, to the re-education of delinquent adolescents... to marriage counseling, to weight control and to
Since statistics show that
most new mothers will have some form of depression after the birth, it may help to look at the range of depression
disorders from the mildest (postpartum blues) to the
most severe (
psychotic depression), as well as ways for mothers and their families to cope.
In our input to the committee we wrote: We continue to support the recommended addition of a specifier, as it is stated on the DSM 5 website, «With Postpartum Onset,» that can be applied to a current or
most recent Major Depressive Episode, Manic, or Mixed Features in Major Depressive
Disorder, Bipolar I
Disorder, or Bipolar II
Disorder, or to Brief
Psychotic Disorder, and that the onset of the episode be extended to within 6 months postpartum.
It is known that smoking cannabis daily doubles an individual's risk of developing a
psychotic disorder, but it has been difficult to establish who is
most vulnerable.
Before
most people experience full - blown
psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia, they are often diagnosed as being at clinical high risk (CHR) for psychosis.
«
Most clinical trials for
psychotic disorders are limited to cross-sectional or short - term studies that typically last one year or less,» said Martin T. Strassnig, M.D., lead author of the study and associate professor of Integrated Medical Science in FAU's College of Medicine.
A «biologically - based» mental
disorder, including Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective
disorder, Major depressive
disorder, Bipolar
disorder, Paranoia and other
psychotic disorders, Obsessive - compulsive
disorder, Panic
disorder, Delirium and dementia, Affective
disorders, and any other «biologically - based» mental
disorders appearing in the
most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association.
It is organized by
disorders most commonly encountered in young people, like ADD, depression and bipolar
disorder, anxiety, learning
disorders, and
psychotic disorders like schizophrenia and borderline personality
disorder.
Given their typical age of onset, a broad range of mental
disorders are increasingly being understood as the result of aberrations of developmental processes that normally occur in the adolescent brain.4 — 6 Executive functioning, and its neurobiological substrate, the prefrontal cortex, matures during adolescence.5 The relatively late maturation of executive functioning is adaptive in
most cases, underpinning characteristic adolescent behaviours such as social interaction, risk taking and sensation seeking which promote successful adult development and independence.6 However, in some cases it appears that the delayed maturation of prefrontal regulatory regions leads to the development of mental illness, with neurobiological studies indicating a broad deficit in executive functioning which precedes and underpins a range of psychopathology.7 A recent meta - analysis of neuroimaging studies focusing on a range of
psychotic and non-
psychotic mental illnesses found that grey matter loss in the dorsal anterior cingulate, and left and right insula, was common across diagnoses.8 In a healthy sample, this study also demonstrated that lower grey matter in these regions was found to be associated with deficits in executive functioning performance.
A total of 50 FEP and 50 chronic patients diagnosed with schizophrenia or bipolar
disorder (
most recent episode manic severe with
psychotic features) and their family caregivers participated in the study.