Sentences with phrase «psychotic symptoms a patient»

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While some psychotic symptoms can be reasonably well treated with medication, patients often still have debilitating problems with memory and cognitive function, meaning they struggle to get back to work or stay in education.

At discharge the patient can be well, have full mental capacity, with greatly reduced psychotic symptoms, or even none at all.

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.

Psychotic symptoms are reasonably well treated by current medications; however, patients are still left with debilitating cognitive impairments, including in their memory, and so are frequently unable to return to university or work.

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).

In psychiatric in - patients, caffeine has been found to increase anxiety, hostility and psychotic symptoms.

«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).

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.

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

Objectives: To investigate whether intensive cognitive behaviour therapy results in significant improvement in positive psychotic symptoms in patients with chronic schizophrenia.

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.

Many patients continue to experience persistent positive psychotic symptoms, hallucinations, and delusions, which are disabling and distressing.

Measures utilized include the Diagnostic Infant and Preschool Assessment (DIPA), the Trauma Symptom Checklist for Young Children, the Clinical Global Impression — Severity (CGI), the Clinical Global Impression — Improvement (CGI — Improvement), the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM - IV - TR Axis I Disorders, Research Version, Patient Edition With Psychotic Screen (SCID - RV), the Expectancy Rating Form, and the Client Satisfaction Questionnaire.

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.

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

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.