Sentences with phrase «underlying symptoms of psychosis»
When other treatments for psychosis are ineffective, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)(aka shock treatment) is sometimes utilized to relieve the underlying symptoms of psychosis due to depression.
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«Also, are these antibodies producing symptoms in everyone or do they function as a probe of an underlying, perhaps genetic, vulnerability for psychosis?»
The effort aims to facilitate a better understanding of the underlying mechanisms of these symptoms, which include psychosis, agitation, apathy, depression and sleep disturbances.
Patients can find themselves on a whole pharmacopoeia of drugs that address their NMS on a one - off basis, targeting individual symptoms — sildenafil (Viagra ®) for erectile dysfunction, stimulants for daytime sleepiness and fatigue, clozapine for psychosis, and even glycopyrrolate for frank, uncontrolled drooling — but again, these drugs do nothing to check the underlying progression of AS pathology, and the NMS continue to worsen over time.