Sentences with phrase «prevent psychosis»

«The results of this study are exciting because this technology has the potential to improve pre-diction of psychosis and ultimately help us prevent psychosis by helping researchers develop re-mediation and training strategies that target the cognitive deficits that may underlie language dis - turbance,» said the study's first author, Cheryl Corcoran, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Program Leader in Psychosis Risk, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Last month, a German pharmaceutical company enrolled the first volunteer into what is intended to be a 300 - person randomized clinical trial testing an experimental drug to prevent psychosis in those at extremely high risk.

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

Like other prevention trials, Boehringer's is examining whether its treatment can ease current symptoms, as well as prevent psychosis.

Anyone with young children might read this and worry — and that is exactly the challenge those seeking to prevent psychosis confront today.

McFarlane's program is by far the largest effort in the United States to prevent psychosis.

«I don't know that we have a way to prevent psychosis yet because we don't have a clear understanding of what causes it,» says psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey, executive director of the Stanley Medical Research Institute in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

An earlier study performed in 2002 by Patrick McGorry, from the University of Melbourne in Australia, found that an antipsychotic called risperidone plus psychotherapy was more effective at preventing psychosis than supportive care alone.

«A next step would be to help regulate stress among higher risk immigrants through social support programs, and see if this reduces dopamine in the brain and prevents psychosis.»

Not exact matches

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.

«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.

«It raises the possibility that we could intervene before psychosis and prevent the onset, which is a very promising prospect.»

Up to 5 % of alcoholics in the United States develop Korsakoff's psychosis, a chronic disease that wipes out memories and can prevent new ones from forming.

Early psychosis programs serve the vital function of preventing and reducing the severity of psychosis.

In order to prevent just one case of psychosis, more than 20,000 people would have to stop using cannabis, as shown by a previous study led by the University of Bristol.

Indeed, by limiting the debate to whether PIER does or doesn't prevent schizophrenia, it's possible to miss a larger point, namely, that most of the patients enter the program because they are in serious need of help, without which they could succumb to psychosis, violence, or suicide.

Several trials have shown that CBT can reduce the risk of developing psychosis by about 50 % in the following year, Heinssen says, though it's not clear whether treatment prevents or delays disease.

When asked about the ethics of offering a drug to people who may never get the disease it's designed to prevent, Michael Sand, the Boehringer scientist overseeing the clinical trial, acknowledges that psychosis risk prediction is far from perfect.

«The data from this study suggests that better interventions are possible, providing hope that major disability can be prevented for the subset of children experiencing acute psychosis with antibodies,» Brilot added.

Animal models and clinical trials have shown that antioxidants and anti-inflammatory drugs could not only reduce symptoms associated with the disorders but also prevent the appearance of neurobiological abnormalities and transition to psychosis if given early during brain development.

«The finding suggests that better interventions are possible, providing hope that major disability can be prevented for the subset of children experiencing acute psychosis with antibodies,» Brilot adds.

Omega - 3 PUFAs may therefore reduce conversion in subjects at risk for psychosis by preventing the pathophysiological changes associated with the increase in striatal dopamine.

Finally, these psychotic like symptoms will probably be used to select high risk samples in future clinical trials of interventions aimed at preventing the onset of psychosis.

But what are these learning processes and how can CBT therapists better engage people with psychosis in learning to prevent relapse?

Actions that young people can take to prevent depression, anxiety and psychosis: beliefs of health professionals and young people

Are pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions effective in preventing relapse in first - episode psychosis (FEP) patients?

This review will consider studies that include the following outcome measures: the primary outcome is preventing progression to psychosis (incidences of sub threshold psychosis and first - episode psychosis), the secondary outcomes such as symptoms of psychosis (both positive and negative symptoms), psychosocial functioning, depression, anxiety and quality of life.