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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"psychotic episodes"”.
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Modelling the pathophysiology of schizophrenia and methamphetamine-induced psychosis: A structural magnetic resonance imaging and cytokine study
… associations of increased severity of psychotic symptoms with thinner frontal cortex and decreased hippocampus and amygdala volume, and there is evidence of increased TNF-α and interleukin (IL)-1β concentrations compared to healthy controls. However, no studies to date have 1) compared …
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Childhood recollections as predictors of specific features of borderline personality disorder
… behaviors" and 4) "depersonalization and brief psychotic episodes". The sample consisted of sixty-six subjects with borderline, antisocial or schizotypal personality disorder or bipolar type II affective disorder. The latter three groups were used as psychiatric control groups. Subjects were …
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Seizure prediction and control in epilepsy
… history of literature reporting the existence of psychotic episodes in epileptic patients, a longitudinal study, using a slightly modified behavioral paradigm, was carried out with two RTLE patients, one patient with idiopathic generalized epilepsy and one patient with extratemporal lobe epilepsy. …
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A NARRATIVE STUDY OF THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF FAMILY CAREGIVERS THROUGH DIFFERENT STAGES OF MENTAL ILLNESS
This narrative study examines life histories of family caregivers caring for a mentally ill relative dealing with either schizophrenia or bipolar disorder through different stages of the mental illness. Its goal was to enhance understanding of the lived experiences of the families in question …