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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Magnetic resonance imaging correlates of first-episode psychosis in young adult male patients: combined analysis of grey and white matter. [PDF]
, 2012 Background: Several patterns of grey and white matter changes have been separately described in young adults with first-episode psychosis. Concomitant investigation of grey and white matter densities in patients with first-episode psychosis without other
Badan Bâ, M. +10 more
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Differential efficacy of lithium and carbamazepine in the prophylaxis of bipolar disorder: Results of the MAP study [PDF]
, 2000 In a randomized clinical trial with an observation period of 2.5 years, the differential efficacy of lithium versus carbamazepine was compared in 171 bipolar patients (DSM-IV).
Greil, Waldemar, Kleindienst, Nikolaus
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Antipsychotic prescribing choices in patients with First Episode Psychosis
European Psychiatry, 2022 Introduction As all first line options in treating First Episode Psychosis (FEP) are similarly effective there is a consensus among prescribing guidelines that clinicians and patients should consider side-effect profile as the ‘driver’ of initial choice
J. Fallon, O. Tierney
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Mentalizing in first-episode psychosis
Psychiatry Research, 2012 Mentalizing deficits have often been observed in people with schizophrenia and a few recent studies suggest that such deficits are also present in patients with first episode psychosis (FEP). It is not clear, however, whether these mentalizing deficits in FEP can be accounted for by underlying processes such as social cue recognition, social knowledge ...
Amélie M, Achim +3 more
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Increased Blood-Reelin-Levels in First Episode Schizophrenia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Reelin is an extracellular glycoprotein involved in several functions of brain development, synaptogenesis and dendritic proliferation. Numerous studies found perturbation in the reelin system and altered serum reelin levels in neuropsychiatric patients ...
Tobias Hornig +4 more
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Social and spatial heterogeneity in psychosis proneness in a multilevel case-prodrome-control study [PDF]
, 2014 To test whether spatial and social neighbourhood patterning of people at ultra-high risk (UHR) of psychosis differs from first-episode psychosis (FEP) participants or controls and to determine whether exposure to different social environments is evident ...
Aguilar, E +10 more
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South African Journal of Psychiatry, 2020 Background: Despite the burgeoning data on the double burden of malnutrition (DBM) in sub-Saharan Africa, longitudinal studies to examine malnutrition amongst first-episode schizophrenia are uncommon in the modern literature.
Justus U. Onu, Portia N. Osuji
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Wavelet Features for Recognition of First Episode of Schizophrenia from MRI Brain Images [PDF]
, 2014 Machine learning methods are increasingly used in various fields of medicine, contributing to early diagnosis and better quality of care. These outputs are particularly desirable in case of neuropsychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, due to the ...
Dluhos, P., Kasparek, T., Schwarz, D.
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Star formation histories of dwarf galaxies from the Colour-Magnitude diagrams of their resolved stellar populations [PDF]
, 2009 In this tutorial paper we summarize how the star formation (SF) history of a galactic region can be derived from the colour-magnitude diagram (CMD) of its resolved stars.
Cignoni, Michele, Tosi, Monica
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