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Showing 1 to 20 of 276 for “"Psychosis"”.
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Reactive psychosis in a first-episode psychosis population
… or distress (Ungvari & Mullen, 2000). Reactive psychosis, a term coined over a century ago to differentiate these disorders from other psychotic processes more closely resembling schizophrenia, was investigated in 217 first episode psychosis patients being treated at the Early Psychosis …
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Psychosis Risk Syndrome
… phase will prevent the development of full blown psychosis. Several interviewing measures were obtained, by constructing the most common presenting signs and symptoms of these pre-psychotic phases in order to identify Ultra high risk (UHR) patients, i.e. patients in a high risk of developing a …
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Cortical Gyrification in Methamphetamine Associated Psychosis: A Potential Neurodevelopmental Biomarker for Risk of Psychosis
For many years, methamphetamine associated psychosis (MAP) has been viewed as a symptomatic, genetic, and morphological blueprint for schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) (Aoki et al., 2013; Grant et al., 2012; Uhlmann et al., 2016; Yang et al., 2021). MAP is currently diagnosed as a substance …
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Executive functioning in methamphetamine psychosis
… impairments associated with methamphetamine psychosis in particular. Third, ADHD is highly co-morbid with substance dependence. Symptoms of ADHD were therefore investigated as possible confounders in this study. Fourth, few studies of methamphetamine dependence have explored relationships …
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Recovery after psychosis: a compassion focused recovery approach to psychosis in a forensic mental health setting
… in the expected outcomes of individuals with psychosis, due to advances in psychotropic medication, and through the development and application of psychological approaches such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Such improvements in outcome have been demonstrated through various outcome studies …
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Psychosocial pathways between adversity and psychosis
… experiences contribute to the development of psychosis, including paranoia and hearing voices. These adverse experiences include childhood trauma (such as physical, emotional and sexual abuse) as well as experiences such as neglect, social inequality and poverty. One adverse experience that …
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Cannabinoids and Psychosis – Cause and Treatment
… tested whether CBD inhibited acute THC elicited psychosis. </p> <p>In study 1 the psychotomimetic effects of acute IV THC were confirmed. THC-elicited positive symptoms were distinct from anxiety, and negative symptoms were distinct from sedation. Cognitive performance was impaired under THC …
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Hippocampal Subfield Transcriptome Analysis in Schizophrenia Psychosis
… lab has particular interest in schizophrenia psychosis, conceptualizing it as a disorder of learning and memory, critically involving dentate gyrus (DG), CA3, and CA1 of the hippocampus. Therefore, this doctoral dissertation examines the transcriptome of all three subfields, DG, CA3, and CA1 …
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Genetic influence on brain volumes in psychosis.
… of susceptibility genes on brain volumes in psychosis. More specifically, I explored whether certain allelic variations are associated with global brain volumes in subjects with psychosis, their relatives and in healthy controls. To increase the statistical power, I combined three different …
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The structure of insight in patients with psychosis.
Failure to acknowledge their mental illness occurs in approximately half of all psychotic patients. Interest has been recently been refocused on insight (i.e., awareness of mental illness), and its associations with treatment compliance and better prognosis. Researchers have called into question …
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Patterns of cannabis use in first-episode psychosis
There is ample evidence that patients with psychosis are more likely to<br/>use illicit substances than the general population, with cannabis being the most<br/>popular. Research has also shown that cannabis use is associated with poor<br/>prognostic outcomes in patients with an established …
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Recovery from psychosis: A mental health inpatient perspective
… populations who have described recovery from psychosis as a journey involving rebuilding the self, finding hope, and reclaiming a purpose in life. There is limited literature conceptualising recovery from psychosis for those accessing MHI services. Aims: To gain a deeper understanding of MHIs' …
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Creativity and psychosis vulnerability: An examination of similarities and differences in factors associated with early psychosis, professional creative and non-creative populations
… it is this creativity that predates the onset of psychosis and advocate for further research. Given the aforementioned emerging research, the question of what enables an imaginative, sensitive, creative individual to continue on a productive path rather than a trajectory of delusions and psychosis …
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Social cognition in individuals with psychosis and healthy individuals
… a patient group which included individuals with psychosis. The participants were 307 (174 men and 131 women). The main findings showed that women scored higher on the Hinting Task than men. No significant difference was found in ToM by age nor education among healthy individuals. Results also …
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Psychosis: an exploration of intergenerational narratives and family processes
… of their illness. Among individuals experiencing psychosis, families play an integral role in their recovery process. Therefore, it is important to understand the role that families play in a person’s self-narratives. To date, no research has reviewed the evidence that the role families play in an …
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Understanding mechanisms related to psychosis in Motor Neurone Disease
Psychosis is a challenging feature of the syndromes of motor neurone disease (MND), frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and their overlap (FTD-MND). Clinically evident psychosis is not common, except in those with C9orf72+ expansions. However, subthreshold psychosis or pre-psychosis processes are common …
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Career Decision-Making Processes of Individuals with First-Episode Psychosis
Background: Psychosis is a disabling condition which results in an individual losing contact with reality. The first episode of psychosis (FEP) often emerges during adolescence or early adulthood, when individuals are pursuing important educational and career milestones, which can become derailed …
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