Duration of untreated psychosis and social function: 1-year follow-up study of first-episode schizophrenia. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: In first-episode schizophrenia, longer duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) predicts poorer outcomes. AIMS: To address whether the relationship between DUP and outcome is a direct causal one or the result of association between symptoms and ...
Barnes, T. R. +17 more
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Don’t turn your back on the symptoms of psychosis : a proof-of-principle, quasi-experimental public health trial to reduce the duration of untreated psychosis in Birmingham, UK [PDF]
Background: Reducing the duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) is an aspiration of international guidelines for first episode psychosis; however, public health initiatives have met with mixed results.
Patterson, Paul +25 more
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BackgroundThere is evidence suggesting racial disparities in diagnosis and treatment in bipolar disorder (BD) and schizophrenia (SZ). The purpose of this study is to compare psychiatric diagnoses and psychotropic use preceding a first episode of mania ...
Manuel Gardea-Resendez +16 more
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Insular volume abnormalities associated with different transition probabilities to psychosis [PDF]
Background Although individuals vulnerable to psychosis show brain volumetric abnormalities, structural alterations underlying different probabilities for later transition are unknown.
McGuire, P. +42 more
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Predicting psychosis in at-risk patients using abnormal neural oscillations and synchrony in conjunctions with machine learning algorithms [PDF]
In the last 20 years, there has been a marked increase in interest in the early detection and treatment of psychosis. Despite the various potential “prodromes” that have been identified and have helped to increase the accuracy in the detection of persons
Ramyead, Avinash
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Visual Hallucinations in First-Episode Psychosis: Association with Childhood Trauma. [PDF]
Hallucinations are a core diagnostic criterion for psychotic disorders and have been investigated with regard to its association with childhood trauma in first-episode psychosis samples.
Martine Solesvik +9 more
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Brain structural alterations, genetic risk variants and the onset of psychosis [PDF]
One of the central motivations behind research of the at-risk mental state is to prevent or delay potential transition to psychosis and further progression to schizophrenia, by studying the early signs and symptoms without potential confounding effects ...
Harrisberger, Fabienne
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First-episode psychosis: An update
Interest in the subject of first-episode psychosis has increasedconsiderably in the last two decades. At present, a numberof centres around the world focus on early identificationand intervention in people with psychotic disorders.Researchers have ...
Bonga Chiliza +2 more
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Early Psychosis Intervention Programme in a Healthcare Area of Málaga: a descriptive study
Introduction The first years after a first-episode psychosis are crucial, and a comprehensive approach is essential. Objectives Our objective is to observe the characteristics of patients attending Early Psychosis Intervention Programme in (PITP) of ...
E. Sánchez Martínez +2 more
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Brain structural and neurofunctional correlates of liability to psychosis : a multimodal neuroimaging approach [PDF]
Schizophrenia is one of the most debilitating and still not entirely understood mental diseases. Improvements in the treatment came hand in hand with an introduction of antipsychotics and thus with better understanding of neurobiology underlying its ...
Smieskova, Renata
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