Mental Imagery in Early Psychosis

Mental Imagery in Synaesthesia

Mental imagery

Our ability to be conscious of the world around us is often discussed as one of the most amazing yet enigmatic processes under scientific investigation today. However, our ability to imagine the world around us in the absence of stimulation from that world is perhaps even more amazing. Our capacity to re-experience objects or scenarios that we’ve encountered before, and to notice new things abo...

Psychosis as an Early Presentation of Neuro-Brucellosis

Brucellosis is an endemic zoonotic infectious disease in Middle East countries including Iran. This infection may involve central nervous system. Psychosis has been reported in rare cases with chronic brucellosis.A 26-year-old male shepherd patient who developed neuro-brucellosis and psychosis is presented. He had hallucinations (visual and auditory) and delusions. He was also impulsive and had...

Early Intervention in Psychosis

2010 This briefing is intended to inform service planners about the Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) service model, which has spearheaded a revolution in how mental health services have been delivered across England over the last ten years. The EIP service model can address many of the efficiency challenges facing service planners currently, supported by a robust evidence base of clinical ...

Biomarkers in Early Psychosis

Evidence suggests that schizophrenia pathophysiology involve a dysregulation of antioxidant defenses, raising the question of its causal relationship with the disease phenotype. Using an animal model, the gclm‐/‐ mice, deficient in glutathione (GSH) and thus prone to reactive oxygen species (ROS) excess, Kim Do’s group has demonstrated that, during development, redox dysregulation, leading to o...