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First-Episode Psychosis

Psychiatric Annals
First-episode psychosis (FEP) is a severe mental disorder that poses a challenge to providers, patients, and their families for treatment. This disorder usually presents in the younger age group. Due to the stigma related to mental illness in the community, people are reluctant to disclose symptoms and start early treatment. They reach out
Syed Iqbal, Kathleen McDeavitt, Jonathan Curtis Blassingame, Samya Anam Isa, Arushi Markan, Michelle Nazario, Asim A. Shah   +6 more
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Clinician Recognition of First Episode Psychosis

Journal of Adolescent Health, 2021
Purpose: Psychotic disorders develop during mid-adolescence through early adulthood, with the initial few months a “critical period” offering the greatest promise for recovery. However, the duration of untreated psychosis is typically over a year. This study aimed to identify aspects of care episodes contributing to delays in diagnosis of a first ...
Kathryn Albin, Cameron Albin, Clark D. Jeffries, Diana O. Perkins   +3 more
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First Episode Psychosis

2017
Engaging people experiencing a first episode of psychosis (FEP) in treatment is a priority. The duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) is the period of time between the onset of the FEP and the initiation of adequate treatment; longer DUP is associated with negative outcomes.
Marc W. Manseau, Jay Crosby
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The Patient with First Episode Psychosis

Journal of Psychiatric Practice, 2001
The authors describe their approach to the patient presenting with a first episode of psychosis. This approach differs from the treatment of established/chronic patients and is critical in insuring proper assessment and initial treatment and may possibly influence the prognosis.
J, Lauriello, J, Bustillo, W P, Horan, S J, Keith   +3 more
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Prolonged recovery in first-episode psychosis

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1998
Background Early identification and specialised treatment of individuals with enduring positive symptoms may assist in alleviating symptoms and has the potential to change the course of illness.Method Prevalence and descriptive data on enduring positive symptoms in two first-episode samples are outlined.
J, Edwards, D, Maude, P D, McGorry, S M, Harrigan, J T, Cocks   +4 more
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Dimensional structure of first episode psychosis

Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 2019
AimCurrent diagnostic systems, DSM‐5 and ICD‐10, still adopt a categorical approach to classify psychotic disorders. The present study was aimed at investigating the structure of psychotic symptomatology in both affective and non‐affective psychosis from a dimensional approach.MethodsParticipants with a first episode psychosis (FEP) were recruited from
Tonna, Matteo, Ossola, Paolo, Marchesi, Carlo, Bettini, Elena, Lasalvia, Antonio, Bonetto, Chiara, Lenzi, Jacopo, Rucci, Paola, Iozzino, Laura, Cellini, Massimo, Comacchio, Carla, Cristofalo, Doriana, D'Agostino, Armando, de Girolamo, Giovanni, De Santi, Katia, Ghigi, Daniela, Leuci, Emanuela, Miceli, Maurizio, Meneghelli, Anna, Pileggi, Francesca, Scarone, Silvio, Santonastaso, Paolo, Torresani, Stefano, Tosato, Sarah, Veronese, Angela, Fioritti, Angelo, Ruggeri, Mirella   +26 more
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First-Episode Psychosis

2019
In the past two decades, modern preventive psychiatry has reached schizophrenia care. Managing early course schizophrenia (prodromal period, first-episode psychosis, and post-psychotic period) well offers the best hope for improved long-term patient outcomes, including a reduction in mortality.
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First-Episode Psychosis: An Inflammatory State?

Neuroimmunomodulation, 2014
In the last decade an increasing body of research has focussed on the potential role of inflammation in the onset of psychiatric disorders. Although the association between inflammation and depression appears now widely acknowledged, mixed findings have been reported in psychosis leaving the pathophysiological role of inflammation in psychosis still ...
Zajkowska, Zuzanna, Mondelli, Valeria
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Gender differences in first episode psychosis

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 2008
In the description of 1 episode schizophrenia patients, female gender is associated with better social function and a higher degree of compliance, while males exhibit more negative symptoms and a higher degree of abuse. The question is raised whether gender specific differences exist which should be taken into consideration in order to provide optimal ...
Koster, A., Lajer, M., Lindhardt, A., Rosenbaum, B., Køster, Anne, Lajer, Matilde, Lindhardt, Anne, Rosenbaum, Bent   +7 more
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Childhood Abuse in First-Episode Psychosis

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1994
Of 38 adult patients admitted for first-episode psychosis, 20 reported childhood abuse, with equal prevalence in men and women. Patients with histories of childhood abuse had significantly more dissociative symptoms, but not more severe psychiatric symptoms.
S F, Greenfield, S M, Strakowski, M, Tohen, S C, Batson, M L, Kolbrener   +4 more
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