Psychosis is a condition that affects the way your brain processes information. It causes you to lose touch with reality. You might see, hear, or believe things aren’t real. symptom, not an illness. can be triggered by mental illness, physical injury substance abuse, extreme stress trauma [1].Postpartum severe health following childbirth, psychosis and associated mood disturbance. Research date...

BACKGROUND Diagnostic stability and illness course of chronic non-organic psychoses are complex phenomena and only few risk factors or predictors are known that can be used reliably. This study investigates the diagnostic stability during the entire course of illness in patients with non-organic psychoses and attempts to identify non-psychopathological risk factors or predictors. METHOD 100 p...

Sociodemographic, clinical and outcome characteristics of 29 cases who had the diagnosis of schizoaffective psychosis were studied. On the basis of longitudinal course of the illness, 2 distinct subgroup of patients could be delineated. Patients with episodic illness were more akin to affective disorders while those with continuous course of illness were conceptually closer to schizophrenia. Co...

Non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis or marantic endocarditis is an uncommon and frequently terminal condition. We report non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis presenting as a psychotic illness. The underlying cause was found to be adenocarcinoma of the lung. The patient was nursed on a specialist joint medical/psychiatric unit. Many medical illnesses can present with psychosis in older people...

Most individuals with schizophrenia retrospectively report a prodromal period characterized by increasing problems in thinking, feeling, and behaving. However, it is less clear how many individuals who display prodromal symptoms will subsequently develop a psychotic illness. Thus, a precondition for early intervention in psychosis is the accurate detection of those who may be at true risk of de...

Abstract Research has found strong evidence for common and distinct morphometric brain abnormality profiles in nonaffective psychosis (NAff-P) affective (Aff-P). Due to chronicity prolonged medication exposure confounds, it is crucial examine structural morphometry early the course of psychosis. Using Human Connectome Project-Early Psychosis data, multivariate profile analyses were implemented ...

BACKGROUND People with mental health problems are known to be socially excluded but the contribution of pre-morbid characteristics, symptoms and needs, and the impact on quality of life is unknown. AIMS To investigate change in social inclusion after the development of a psychotic Illness and factors associated with this. METHODS A cross-sectional community survey of people with psychosis w...

Research focused on the prodromal period prior to the onset of psychosis is essential for the further development of strategies for early detection, early intervention, and disease pre-emption. Such efforts necessarily require the enrollment of individuals who are at risk of psychosis but have not yet developed a psychotic illness into research and treatment protocols. This work is becoming inc...