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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Psychotic disorder"”.
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Improving occupational performance of people with a psychotic disorder post discharge from hospital
Having a diagnosed psychotic disorder affects a persons’ ability to participate in everyday life. An admission to hospital and deterioration of mental health are disruptions in life that can result in further skill loss and decrease in daily routine. The purpose of this study was to develop and …
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Investigating cortical arousal and cognition in schizophrenia and methamphetamine-induced psychotic disorder: an electroencephalography and cytokine study
… Schizophrenia (SCZ) and methamphetamine-induced psychotic disorder (MPD), are psychotic disorders characterized by positive symptoms (e.g., hallucinations and delusions), negative symptoms (e.g., social withdrawal, apathy), and impaired cognitive function. Despite the overlap in the clinical …
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Data-driven neuroimaging reveals cognition-circuit pathology prior to diagnosis in psychotic disorders
BACKGROUND: Schizophrenia is a diverse disorder comprising positive, negative, and cognitive symptoms. While several cognitive domains have been alleged to influence symptom severity and quality of life, impaired information processing speed (IPS) is the most profoundly affected and is present even …
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Relationship between Crime, Psychological Diagnosis and Cognitive Functioning
… delay, diagnosis of an intellectual disorder, and Total RBANS score for the type of crime that a patient committed. Individuals without the Presence of Violence were more likely to have a history of developmental delay and have a diagnosis of an Intellectual/Cognitive Disorder than …
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Prevalence and correlates of anxiety disorders in psychotic illness
Background: Comorbid anxiety disorders in psychotic illness are reported in the international literature as highly prevalent and have a significant negative impact on patient outcomes. Local literature describing such comorbidity in the South African population is limited and clinically, anxiety …
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The relationships between insight, psychopathological symptoms, and neurocognitive function in psychotic disorders.
Many psychotic patients fail to admit they are mentally ill. The current study evaluated the associations between insight, specific symptoms, and neurocognitive impairments. Thirty-three acute inpatients with a schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, or psychotic disorder NOS diagnosis were rated …
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An exploratory study of psychiatric symptoms in intellectually disabled people with and without a known history of sexual abuse
… organic condition, affective or neurotic disorder and psychotic disorder. The results showed that the total sample had a fairly high overall prevalence rate of psychiatric symptoms. In particular, the group with a History of Sexual Abuse obtained significantly higher scores on the …
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Detecting Malingering on the MMPI-2: An Examination of the Utility of Combining the Validity Scales in a Non-Compensatory Model
… of validity scales to detect malingering of a psychotic disorder in a non-compensatory model would be more or less effective than using only a select few of the validity scales in a compensatory model. The results supported the use of the specified validity scales (F, Fb, Fp, F – K, and FBS) in …
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Social Determinants of Psychosis: An examination of loneliness, stress, discrimination, and neighborhood cohesion in psychotic disorders
… determinants in individuals diagnosed with psychotic disorders in a large, diverse, sample from the NIH-sponsored All of Us Research Program. Participants completed self-report measures of loneliness, perceived stress, everyday discrimination, and neighborhood social cohesion. Analyses …
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Personality, Character Strengths, Empathy, Familiarity and the Stigmatization of Mental Illness
… targets described in vignettes as having a mood disorder (i.e., Major Depressive Disorder), a personality disorder (i.e., Borderline Personality Disorder), a psychotic disorder (i.e., Schizophrenia), and a chronic medical illness (i.e., Leukemia). Results suggest higher order factors of …
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EXPERIENTIAL NEGATIVE SYMPTOMS IN YOUNG ADULTS ENDORSING PSYCHOTIC-LIKE EXPERIENCES
… the early course of the schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders. This relative lack of focus on the role of negative symptoms is problematic, given findings that negative symptoms, such as a loss of motivation and pleasure (MAP), are associated with a more persistent and impairing course of …
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Demographic, Legal, and Clinical Predictors of Long-Term Trial Competency Restoration
… type (schizophrenia vs. schizoaffective disorder) trended towards having greater odds of restoring for patients with a schizoaffective disorder diagnosis. At two years of treatment or less, age at admission, ethnicity, and diagnosis type significantly predicted restoration success. Level …
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Executive Dysfunction is Predictive of Clinical Symptomatology in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome
… with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22qDS) develop a psychotic disorder, often schizophrenia, and it is not understood why. Given the known genetic etiology of this disorder and the greatly elevated risk for development of schizophrenia, this group offers the possibility of defining a seemingly …
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Effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation as a treatment for persistent auditory verbal hallucinations
… of stress and functional debility. Atypical antipsychotic drugs are the recommended treatment for AVHs but are non-effective in 25-30% of cases. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has proven reasonably effective but improvements can still be made to the treatment for some patients that experience …
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Cognitive function and social cognition in young first-episode psychosis patients
… this study, 28 patients in the early stages of psychotic disorder and 32 healthy controls carried out both neuropsychological- and social cognitive tests. The results revealed that the clinical group performed significantly worse than the healthy controls on nine neuropsychological- and two …
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The structure of insight in patients with psychosis.
… 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 the traditional factor structure …
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The nature and functional significance of intra-individual neurocognitive ability across serious mental illness diagnoses
… community-dwelling adults with either a psychotic disorder or an affective disorder diagnosis. We found that age, clinical symptoms, and overall cognitive ability were not significantly related to IIV among participants. Psychotic and affective disorder groups evidenced similar levels of …
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The relationship between methamphetamine usage and smoking in patients with psychotic disorders
… and tobacco us are highly prevalent in psychotic disorders, however, the relationship between the dual use of these substances is poorly understood. Aim: To investigate the relationship between methamphetamine and tobacco use severity in patients with psychotic disorders and …
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Diagnostic conversion following admission for a first-episode substance induced psychosis: A four-year retrospective cohort study
Background: Substance-induced psychotic disorder (SIPD) is prevalent in South Africa, yet there is a paucity of research regarding its longitudinal course, with studies finding that diagnostic conversion occurs often, mostly to schizophrenia (SCZ). Aim: We examined the rate of, and factors …
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Confabulation and false memory in young first-episode psychosis patients and normal controls
… in normal controls whereas patients with psychotic disorder generate more confabulation, but it is unclear whether their confabulation leads to increased false memory recall. Furthermore, it is unclear to what extent false memory recall and confabulation in early psychosis patients is …
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