Sentences with phrase «of psychotic patients»

The use of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to prevent the rehospitalization of psychotic patients: A randomized controlled trial.

increase drastically such «uncrazy» behavior on the part of psychotic patients, many of whom had not responded to traditional therapies.

Not exact matches

Traditional Buddhist stories abound of meditators being taken over by evil spirits, and contemporary psychological studies of mindfulness practice going back to the 1970s include patients who experienced hallucinations, psychotic episodes, depression and other mental trauma, as well as nerve pain and similar physical impacts.

Calling for better regulation and oversight of marijuana edibles, Vandrey and his team say patients who consume underlabeled products — meaning more THC is in the product than is stated on the label — could suffer from overdosing side effects, including extreme anxiety and psychotic reactions.

The best results, families were told, would come from low - key, convalescing interactions, which would allow patients to recover naturally from the shock of a psychotic episode.

After his six - month trial ended, however, several patients in the treatment group became psychotic, raising the question of whether the treatment was preventing schizophrenia or simply controlling its symptoms.

Attacked by critics who insisted it wasn't ethical to use the drug on young patients who weren't yet psychotic, McGlashan says he supplied «about 200 pounds» of supporting documentation to the federal Office for Human Research Protections before he got a green light to continue.

Using this approach, McFarlane claims he was able to halve rates of psychotic relapse and double employment, even among the sickest patients.

In the 1970s, after completing a residency in psychiatry and a two - year fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine that focused on family therapy with severely psychotic patients, he began working at a mental health clinic in the South Bronx.

To test this possibility, researchers screened the medical records of 2630 patients with epilepsy and identified 98 (3.7 %) with psychotic disorders.

Subjects included 119 healthy volunteers and 26,683 patients with a variety of psychiatric conditions such as brain trauma, bipolar disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia / psychotic disorders, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

«For example, ziprasidone needs to be taken twice a day with a meal of 500 calories, whereas asenapine must absolutely melt under the tongue, and the patient must abstain from swallowing it, drinking, eating or smoking for 10 minutes afterward,» Vincent said «This is a major challenge since more than one half of people with psychotic disorders do not take their medication as prescribed.

Patients were not included if they had a current or previous psychotic disorder, an immediate family member with a psychotic disorder, history of suicide or mania or current drug or alcohol dependence.

With the consistency of this data in both the patient and relative groups, compared to the healthy group, this study suggests that hypogyria may mark familial risk for psychotic illnesses.

The attenuation of MP's effects could also reflect abnormal D2 receptor function, as was previously suggested to explain findings in marijuana - abusing schizophrenic patients, who, despite displaying low DA release, showed increases in psychotic symptoms when challenged with amphetamine (21).

When these psychotic patients were treated with medications, you could see a significant change in the brain images that were now much closer to the brain images of the normal controls.

Dr. Pope is also a well - recognized clinician with decades of experience in treating patients with psychiatric disorders, including patients with severe mood disorders and psychotic disorders.

In one small study of six patients suffering from psychosis, CBD was administered and after only a month their psychotic systems significantly decreased with no adverse affects.

«The approval of Fanapt ™ marks a new opportunity for many patients with schizophrenia, who experience only partial responses to current therapies, to achieve better control of their symptoms,» remarked Dr. Peter J. Weiden, Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Psychotic Disorders Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Patients with psychotic symptoms should undergo a thorough physical examination and detailed patient history to rule out organic causes of the psychosis (such as brain tumor).

A trial oftwo cognitive — behavioural methods of treating drug - resistant residual psychotic symptomsin schizophrenic patients.

In mid 2010, we collated data on all adult Indigenous patients in the region who where either symptomatic or in remission and receiving treatment for a psychotic disorder falling within the following International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision groups: organic - related (F06); substance use - related (F10 — 19); schizophrenia - related (F20 — 22); acute and transient psychoses (F23); and mood disorder - related (F25, F30 — 33).

Patients in the family intervention group had better functioning on activities of daily living than patients in the 2 control groups, but did not differ for cognitive function, depression, psychotic symptoms, behavioural disturbances, or overall severity of dPatients in the family intervention group had better functioning on activities of daily living than patients in the 2 control groups, but did not differ for cognitive function, depression, psychotic symptoms, behavioural disturbances, or overall severity of dpatients in the 2 control groups, but did not differ for cognitive function, depression, psychotic symptoms, behavioural disturbances, or overall severity of dementia.

Whereas a few large studies find a similar prevalence of antineuronal antibodies in patients with psychotic disorders, other psychiatric disorders and healthy controls, 1 2 there is some evidence of an increased prevalence of N - methyl - D - aspartate receptor (NMDAR) antibodies in patients with first - episode psychosis.3 4 In their present study, the authors aimed to (1) investigate the prevalence of neuronal cell surface antibodies in patients with first - episode psychosis and healthy controls and (2) compare the clinical and cognitive profile of patient's with and without these antibodies.

A trial of two cognitive - behavioural methods of treating drug - resistant residual psychotic symptoms in schizophrenic patients.

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.

Because an improvement of 50 % or more in psychotic symptoms represents such an important clinical change in patients with chronic schizophrenia a logistic regression was performed to investigate which variables contributed to this improvement.

We investigated the relation between ChM and psychotic symptoms, taking into account levels of (insecure) attachment, in 131 patients with psychotic illness, 123 siblings and 72 controls.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) To examine the efficacy and safety of Prolonged Exposure (PE) therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy in patients with psychotic disorders and comorbid PTSD.

Psychotic disorders were those that rendered patients unable to function normally in their daily lives and left them «out of touch with reality.»

Delusions are generally experienced by people suffering from a severe psychotic disorder, usually schizophrenia, although delusional thinking can occur in other types of patients (as the result of drug or alcohol abuse, for instance).

A trial of two cognitive - behavioural methods of treating drug - resistant psychotic symptoms in schizophrenic patients: I. Outcome

Patients were excluded based on the following criteria: high risk for suicide; substance abuse or dependence in the past six months; lifetime history of psychotic, obsessive — compulsive, or bipolar disorder; eating disorder in the past year; borderline, schizotypal, or antisocial personality disorder; serious medical conditions; and failure of two empirically supported psychotherapy treatments or two adequate antidepressant medication trials in the past three years.

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.

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.

An insecure attachment style has been reported in association with psychotic symptoms in both nonclinical41 — 46 and patient samples.47, 48 Although these findings are based on cross-sectional comparisons in which participants» current styles of relating to others are assessed rather than the quality of past relationships, prospective data suggest that disrupted attachment relations may be causal.