10-minute consultation: First episode psychosis [PDF]
BMJ, 2001 This is part of a series of occasional articles on common problems in primary care A 17 year old man complains of sleep problems and bad dreams. He has recently given up his college course and spends his days alone in his bedroom reading science fiction and fantasy books.
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Prescribing in First Episode Psychosis
BJPsych OpenAims This audit aimed to review prescribing in First Episode Psychosis (FEP) in Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, against NICE guidelines (CG 178) we hoped to develop prescribing guidelines for the Trust and to compare our results with Avon and
Edita Searle +2 more
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First-episode psychosis and substance use in an acute mental health unit
South African Journal of Psychiatry, 2018 Background: Substance use is frequent among first-episode psychosis (FEP) patients, and it has prognostic implications. There is a dearth of locally published literature in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, on the prevalence of substance use amongst FEP ...
Yanga Thungana +2 more
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First episode psychosis following COVID-19 infection: two case reports from Turkey
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 2022 Introduction: Coronoviruses can reach the brain by various mechanisms and cause neuropsychiatric symptoms. We present two case reports of patients presenting with first episode psychosis after Covid-19 infection to a training and research hospital in ...
Şeyma Sehlikoğlu, Behice Han Almiş
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Qualitative process evaluation of a problem-solving guided self-help manual for family carers of young people with first-episode psychosis [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: Caring for a young person experiencing first-episode psychosis is challenging and can affect carers’ well-being adversely. While some face-to-face approaches have achieved promising outcomes, they are costly and resource-intensive to provide,
Lubman, DI, McCann, Terence
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Classification of functional psychoses and its implication for prognosis: Comparison between ICD-10 and DSM-IV [PDF]
, 2004 Background: The aim was to examine the agreement and differences between ICD-10 and DSM-IV in the classification of functional psychoses. Sampling and Methods: In a sample of 218 first-hospitalised patients, ICD-10 diagnoses were compared with DSM-IV ...
Bottlender, Ronald +3 more
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Hippocampal subregion abnormalities in schizophrenia: A systematic review of structural and physiological imaging studies. [PDF]
, 2018 AimThe hippocampus is considered a key region in schizophrenia pathophysiology, but the nature of hippocampal subregion abnormalities and how they contribute to disease expression remain to be fully determined.
Matsumoto, Mitsuyuki +2 more
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Family Intervention in First-Episode Psychosis
SAGE Open, 2015 Family interventions have produced benefits on clinical and family outcomes in long standing psychosis. However, little is known about the efficacy of such interventions in the early stages of psychosis.
Anvar Sadath +4 more
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A latent class analysis of parental bipolar disorder: examining associations with offspring psychopathology [PDF]
, 2015 Bipolar disorder (BD) is highly heterogeneous, and course variations are associated with patient outcomes. This diagnostic complexity challenges identification of patients in greatest need of intervention.
Freed, Rachel D. +4 more
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Individualized differential diagnosis of schizophrenia and mood disorders using neuroanatomical biomarkers [PDF]
, 2015 Magnetic resonance imaging-based markers of schizophrenia have been repeatedly shown to separate patients from healthy controls at the single-subject level, but it remains unclear whether these markers reliably distinguish schizophrenia from mood ...
Borgwardt, Stefan +10 more
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