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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"psychoses"”.
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Hallucinogens: a Cause of Convulsive Ergot Psychoses
… centuries. Less well publicized are the cases of psychoses associated with convulsive ergotism. Lysergic acid amide a powerful hallucinogen having one.-tenth the hallucinogenic activity of LSD-25 is produced by natural sources. This article attempts to show that convulsive ergot psychoses are …
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A toxicological survey of acute psychoses in Cape Coloured males with special reference to the cannabinoids
… use. It was decided to investigate acute psychoses in Cape Coloured males admitted to Valkenberg Hospital with the following aims: i. To identify a cohort of acutely psychotic patients who had recently been using cannabis and to compare them with a matched control group who were free of …
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Towards an understanding of mental disorders in urban areas
… yet to be identified. Findings for the affective psychoses are contradictory. Ethnic minority status also increases the risk of psychoses, independent of 'urbanicity', suggesting risk factors associated with migration or post-migratory experiences are also aetiologically relevant. It is unclear …
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Psychotic disorders in the Lundby population 1947-1997: Incidence, life-time prevalence and predictors related to personality and behaviour
… in males than in females for ‘substance-induced psychoses’. The incidence rates of the other psychoses did not differ between the sexes. The male mean age-at-onset was lower than that for females for ‘psychotic disorder due to a general medical condition’, ‘nonaffective psychoses’ and …
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Fierce Flames and the Golden Lotus: Case Studies on the Madness and Creativity Connection
… connection between creativity and a variety of psychoses including: syphilis, epilepsy, schizophenia and manic-depression/bi-polar disorder. The figures examined are Gustave Flaubert, Hector Berlioz, Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke, Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath.
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Fierce Flames and the Golden Lotus: Case Studies on the Madness and Creativity Connection
… connection between creativity and a variety of psychoses including: syphilis, epilepsy, schizophenia and manic-depression/bi-polar disorder. The figures examined are Gustave Flaubert, Hector Berlioz, Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke, Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath.
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Schizophrenia: a survey of the problem with the results of treatment
… which dominate the study of the organic psychoses, or use the point of view which has thrown so much light on hysteria and the other psychoneuroses or try to correlate both. Symptoms may be considered as defects or anomalies dependent on some structural or toxic damage to the nervous …
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Developing a theory of the emotional impact of auditory hallucinations: an exploratory study
… hallucinations ("voices") in people with psychoses. Following the research of Chadwick and Birchwood (1994), data are presented on the behavioural, cognitive and affective responses to persistent voices of thirty participants with psychoses. After testing the reliability of their …
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Clinical, cognitive, and neuroimaging correlates of risk for postpartum psychosis
… to that observed in bipolar disorder and<br/>psychoses unrelated to childbirth.<br/>Twenty-five women “at risk” (N=13 due to non-postpartum and N=12 due to<br/>postpartum episodes) were compared to 21 healthy women within the first year after delivery. Women took part in two study visits …
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Schizophrenia in Camberwell, 1965-1984
… in the incidence of non-affective functional psychoses over the two decades during which the Camberwell Register was operational, are explored. The findings, of a rising rate of illness in Camberwell, are discussed in terms of changes in the demography of the general population over the years, …
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Family Histories of Mental Illness and Violence in State Patients
… compared to 18.2% of violent patients with mood psychoses which is not statistically significant. Conclusion: It was found that violence runs in families and that mental illness and violence was prevalent in the described group. Of further concern was that more violent patients witnessed domestic …
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Biomarcadores diferenciales de la esquizofrenia
… a systemic disorder. Clin Schizophr Relat Psychoses, 8(2), 73-79.
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Diagnostic stability in subjects with multiple admissions for psychotic illness
… exit diagnoses according to the functional psychoses over the 2 year period 1993 - 1994. In total, 737 admissions were analysed using the OPCRIT computer program (McGuffin et al, 1991 ), and diagnoses were analysed in accordance with a number of operational criteria. The main results are …
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Characteristics of domestic homicide perpetrated by persons with severe mental illness - a forensic psychiatry observation population-based study
… took place and 60% of these were first episode psychoses. In spite of the high prevalence of substance use disorders (66.7%), only 23.8% of the sample reported that they were intoxicated when they committed the offence. Conclusions: The majority of our sample was known to mental health care …
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Role of the PI-3K/Akt and ERK pathways in phencyclidine-induced neurotoxicity in neonatal rats and the protection by lithium and BDNF
… symptoms in healthy humans and exacerbates psychoses in schizophrenics. In animals, PCP administration to immature rats causes wide spread neuronal death during brain development and results in behavioral deficits that resemble those observed in schizophrenic patients in later life. The …
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Effects of perinatal phencyclidine treatment on neuronal viability, N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor regulation and schizophrenic-like behaviors
… symptoms of schizophrenia as well as exacerbate psychoses in schizophrenics. PCP elicits its major actions as a noncompetitive NMDA receptor (NMDAR) antagonist. Administration to immature rats has been shown to cause neurotoxicity in a regional and treatment dependent manner and development of …
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Genetic influence on brain volumes in psychosis.
… 5). Patients with schizophrenia spectrum psychoses showed smaller grey matter and larger white matter volume, and smaller whole brain volume than healthy controls. They also showed smaller grey matter volume than patients with bipolar disorder, who also had smaller white matter volume than …
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Investigation of the functional effects of two novel ampakines in the CNS
… treatment of conditions such as depression and psychoses (schizophrenia). The main aim of this thesis was to investigate the functional actions of two novel Ampakines, Org 26576 and Org 24448, in the mouse brain. The studies described in this thesis were designed to address this and are outlined …
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An investigation into the use of stereophotogrammetry for the analysis of craniofacial dysmorphology in schizophrenia
… exists to pursue dysmorphology studies in other psychoses, such as bipolar disorder.
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