Affective Disorders, Psychotic
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Electroconvulsive therapy in forensic psychiatry--ethical problems in daily practice.

30 May 2009 There is a widespread similarity between diagnoses in general psychiatry compared with those found in forensic psychiatry. Consequently, forensic psychiatrists face serious cases that need to undergo treatment by electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). ... Read more...

Electroconvulsive treatment for a patient with psychotic depression and inclusion body myositis.

30 May 2009 A patient with inclusion body myositis (IBM) and psychotic depression required inpatient psychiatric care. The patient's mental and physical health continued to deteriorate despite maximal treatment with medication. After careful consideration and ... Read more...

Corpus callosum size and shape in first-episode affective and schizophrenia-spectrum psychosis.

15 May 2009 Reductions in the size of the anterior callosum have been described for both first-episode and established schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder, but never in individuals with psychotic bipolar disorder. We recruited 110 first-episode ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Affective Disorders, Psychotic'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Ziprasidone and citalopram use in pregnancy and lactation in a woman with psychotic depression. 30 Oct 2009
• Clinical staging: a new scenario for the treatment of psychosis. 30 Jul 2009
• Varenicline-induced mixed mood and psychotic episode in a patient with Schizoaffective Disorder. 29 Jun 2009
• Electroconvulsive therapy in forensic psychiatry--ethical problems in daily practice. 30 May 2009
• Electroconvulsive treatment for a patient with psychotic depression and inclusion body myositis. 30 May 2009
• Re: Toward a hippocratic psychopharmacology. 30 May 2009
• "Shock" therapy for depression survives controversy, offers hope. 30 May 2009
• Corpus callosum size and shape in first-episode affective and schizophrenia-spectrum psychosis. 15 May 2009
• [Neuroradiologic diagnostics in patients hospitalized in Vrapce Psychiatric Hospital] 29 Apr 2009
• Selective deficits in semantic verbal fluency in patients with a first affective episode with psychotic symptoms and a positive history of mania. 29 Apr 2009
• Dr Jekyll impaired. 29 Apr 2009
• A prospective study examining the effects of gender and sexual/physical abuse on mood outcomes in patients with co-occurring bipolar I and substance use disorders. 13 Apr 2009
• Uncinate fasciculus abnormalities in recent onset schizophrenia and affective psychosis: a diffusion tensor imaging study. 26 Mar 2009
• Genetic vulnerability to affective psychopathology in childhood: a combined voxel-based morphometry and functional magnetic resonance imaging study. 15 Mar 2009
• Impact on psychiatric interns of watching live electroconvulsive treatment. 27 Feb 2009
• Drugs with anticholinergic properties: cognitive and neuropsychiatric side-effects in elderly patients. 18 Feb 2009
• Family aggregation of mental disorders in the nationwide Danish three generation study. 15 Feb 2009
• Metabolic risks in older adults receiving second-generation antipsychotic medication. 30 Jan 2009
• Diagnosis of functional psychoses: time to face the future. 15 Jan 2009
• Influence of spirituality and religiousness on substance misuse in patients with schizophrenia or schizo-affective disorder. 30 Dec 2008

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Technical information about 'Affective Disorders, Psychotic'

Definition: Disorders in which the essential feature is a severe disturbance in mood (depression, anxiety, elation, and excitement) accompanied by psychotic symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, gross impairment in reality testing, etc.

Descriptor UI: D000341

Alternative terms: Affective Disorders, Psychotic; Psychoses, Affective; Affective Psychoses; Psychotic Affective Disorders; Affective Disorder, Psychotic; Disorder, Psychotic Affective; Disorders, Psychotic Affective; Psychotic Affective Disorder; Psychotic Mood Disorders; Mood Disorder, Psychotic; Psychotic Mood Disorder; Mood Disorders, Psychotic; Depression, Reactive, Psychotic;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.600.150;

Online Note: use AFFECTIVE DISORDERS, PSYCHOTIC to search DEPRESSION, REACTIVE, PSYCHOTIC 1977-80; search AFFECTIVE DISTURBANCES under AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS 1969-80

History Note: 81; DEPRESSION, REACTIVE, PSYCHOTIC was see under PSYCHOSES 1977-80; AFFECTIVE DISTURBANCES was heading 1969-80