Sentences with phrase «psychotic illness»

However, this is not what is generally communicated, particularly regarding the most important category of psychotic illness: schizophrenia.

But when we recognized that treatments had to be fast, this created an urgency to find people with psychotic illness and to get them on medication quickly.»

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 regular use of cannabis is known to be associated with an increase in the risk of later developing psychotic illnesses including schizophrenia.

People with schizophrenia and other psychotic illnesses often report hearing voices, but so do other people with no diagnosed psychiatric disorder.

8/29/2007 UCSD Program Seeks Early Identification of Young Patients At Risk for Developing Psychosis Early diagnosis could lead to preventive treatment of mental disorders Early detection and intervention in psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disease in adolescence could perhaps prevent some of the devastating effects of mental i...

We think that in psychotic illnesses the cellular activity is hyperactive.»

A minister occasionally encounters persons who are on the verge or in the midst of major psychotic illnesses.

People who hear voices — both with and without a diagnosed psychotic illness — are more sensitive than other subjects to a 125 - year - old experiment designed to induce hallucinations.

Research has established that people with confirmed psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia are at increased risk of cardio - metabolic disease.

Michele L. Gougeon, MSS, MSc, McLean's executive vice president and chief operating officer, said the three - story addition comprises 14 new beds dedicated to treating psychotic illnesses, including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder on the second floor, and 17 beds in the Short Term Unit (STU), a program for individuals with acute psychiatric symptoms, on the first floor.

Non-English speakers, those with severe anorexia nervosa, a current psychotic illness, attending a special learning disability school or contained in secure care were excluded from the study.

In 1995 Cowling et al. estimated from census data and incidence rates that at least 27,000 Australian children were affected by maternal psychotic illness alone.6

Depression, demoralisation and control over psychotic illness: a comparison of depressed and non-depressed patients with a chronic psychosis

But Professor van Os argues that the classification is complicated, particularly for psychotic illness.

«We found it can soar to 81 percent if additional features are present, like a family history of psychotic illness, odd or weird thoughts, and severe social deficits, such as having no friends or withdrawing from contact with others,» he says.

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.

One controversial feature of his program — which might more accurately be termed intervention than prevention — involves offering antipsychotic medication when only the warning signs of schizophrenia and other psychotic illnesses, such as altered perception and paranoia, are present.

People with a psychotic illness had difficulty accepting that they had not really heard a tone and exhibited altered activity in brain regions that are often implicated in psychosis.

McFarlane championed a radical view that psychotic illnesses, including schizophrenia, can be prevented by treatment if caught early enough.

Older age, lower education, psychotic illness, being a visible minority and having a native language other than English or French were associated with poorer cognitive performance; however these indicators could explain only part of the neurocognitive difficulties observed in this study.

Yet strangely, no such language is used for other categories of psychotic illness, even though they constitute 70 % of psychotic illness.

Currently, psychotic illness is classified among many categories, including schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, delusional disorder, depression or bipolar disorder with psychotic features, and others, he explains.

Cardiovascular and metabolic diseases are the leading causes of the 15 year mortality gap between those with psychotic illnesses and the general population.

A different kind of project encourages sharing from young people who are in the early stages of a psychotic illness.

We also observed these alterations in first degree relatives at high risk for psychotic illnesses.»

Ultra-high risk individuals are characterised as those who will develop a psychotic illness within 2 years.

The study finds that cannabis users are 40 % more likely to develop a psychotic illness than non-users.

It suggests that the best way to think of psychotic illness is as a disease of learning and memory.

Participants were excluded if they had a psychotic illness or if they were taking psychotropic medications or using any narcotics.

Participants were excluded if they had a psychotic illness or current substance use disorder, or were taking psychotropic medications.

Exclusion criteria: current substance abuse, psychotic illness or bipolar disorder; and Mini-Mental State Examination score < 24.