Sentences with phrase «psychotic illnesses such»

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

Not exact matches

«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.

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.

The finding that a diagnosis but not psychotic - like experiences is associated with low physical activity may reflect aspects of illness such as low motivation, but may also reflect sedative or other side - effects of therapeutic drugs.

A treatment program in Middleborough, Massachusetts offering acute inpatient care for individuals with various types of psychiatric illness such as depression, anxiety, and psychotic disorders.

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.