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Psychosis

Continuum, 2021
Psychosis can manifest in primary psychotic disorders, neurologic diseases, and medical conditions. This article reviews the definition of psychotic symptoms and the evaluation and management of psychosis in primary psychiatric and neurologic disorders frequently seen in neurologic practice.Emerging evidence supports significant connections between ...
Parunyou, Julayanont, Uma, Suryadevara
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PSYCHOSIS

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 2000
Psychosis is the term used to describe a mental state of dysfunction in behavior and thought processes. In patients with psychoses, mental capacity is grossly distorted and thought is disorganized. These factors cause an inability to recognize reality or relate to others in a meaningful way.
C F, Richards, D E, Gurr
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Psychosis

Continuum, 2018
Psychosis is a psychiatric condition that has significant overlap with neurologic disease. This article is intended to educate the neurologist on the psychiatric manifestations of psychosis and its evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment. How to differentiate a primary psychiatric cause of psychosis from psychosis secondary to a medical or neurologic ...
Lindsey A, Schrimpf   +2 more
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Organic psychosis: Insight into the biology of psychosis

Current Psychiatry Reports, 2001
Psychotic symptoms--delusions, delusional misidentifications and hallucinations--are observed in a variety of organic or nonorganic conditions, and are, therefore, diagnostically nonspecific. Common patholophysiologic denominators of different organic diseases may offer insights into the origin of psychotic symptoms.
N T, Lautenschlager, H, Förstl
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Psychosis in the Elderly

American Journal of Psychiatry, 2009
Ms. A, an 85-year-old Caucasian woman, was hospitalized for increased paranoia, visual hallucinations, and agitation. According to her son, Ms. A had had "strange thoughts" for as long as he could remember. For example, for a time, Ms. A would eat only foods that were white.
Helen H, Kyomen, Theodore H, Whitfield
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Psychosis

Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 1987
This article is intended to expand the clinician's understanding of psychosis. The concept of psychosis and the differential diagnosis of this condition are discussed. The treatment of psychotic illness also is briefly addressed.
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Cycloid psychosis

International Review of Psychiatry, 2005
This article reviews the concept, nosological status, diagnostic features, associated clinical characteristics, and the etiopathological variables involved in cycloid psychosis. The concept of cycloid psychosis is based on sound psychopathological and course underpinnings, and despite the inclusion of some cycloid features in the current diagnostic ...
Victor, Peralta, Manuel J, Cuesta
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Koro and Psychosis

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1984
‘Koro’ has been described as a culture-bound syndrome with localised depersonalisation confined to the penis, occurring in the context of a panic state with fear of impending disaster (Yap 1965,1969). Because ghosts are not thought to possess genitals, penile shrinkage is believed to be potentially fatal, with the risk that the victim will himself turn
P C, Ang, M P, Weller
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LEPROSY AND PSYCHOSIS

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1959
Leprosy is a unique stress with anatomic, physiologic, psychologic and social effects on the individual. Here is an opportunity to explore this stress in terms of the mental reaction. We would expect to learn much about causation of schizophrenia and psychosis in the Carville patients. Such a study also offers hope of a better understanding of the role
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Epilepsy and psychosis

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 1982
In an attempt to survey the evidence of causal relationship between epilepsy and chronic psychosis the literature has been searched with respect to frequency of psychoses, psychopathological classifications and correlations between biological and behavioural variables. It is concluded that a unitary theory of aetiology in epileptic psychosis can not be
J, Parnas, S, Korsgaard
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