Psychotic Disorders - Classification
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

'Salience syndrome' replaces 'schizophrenia' in DSM-V and ICD-11: psychiatry's evidence-based entry into the 21st century?

30 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVE: Japan was the first country to abandon the 19th century term of 'mind-splitting disease' (schizophrenia). Revisions of DSM and ICD are forthcoming. Should the rest of the world follow Japan's example? METHOD: A comprehensive literature ... Read more...

Is schizoaffective disorder a useful diagnosis?

30 Jul 2009 A diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder is frequently used to describe a psychotic person with significant symptoms of depression and/or mania. The word schizoaffective was introduced by Jacob Kasanin in 1933 and has appeared in all editions of the ... Read more...

Use of neuroanatomical pattern classification to identify subjects in at-risk mental states of psychosis and predict disease transition.

29 Jun 2009 CONTEXT: Identification of individuals at high risk of developing psychosis has relied on prodromal symptomatology. Recently, machine learning algorithms have been successfully used for magnetic resonance imaging-based diagnostic classification of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Psychotic Disorders - Classification'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• 'Salience syndrome' replaces 'schizophrenia' in DSM-V and ICD-11: psychiatry's evidence-based entry into the 21st century? 30 Oct 2009
• Is schizoaffective disorder a useful diagnosis? 30 Jul 2009
• Anticipating DSM-V: should psychosis risk become a diagnostic class? 22 Jul 2009
• Use of neuroanatomical pattern classification to identify subjects in at-risk mental states of psychosis and predict disease transition. 29 Jun 2009
• Diagnosis of schizophrenia in latino populations: a comparison of direct interview and consensus based multi-source methods. 29 Jun 2009
• A randomized controlled trial of the effect of sublingual orally disintegrating olanzapine versus oral olanzapine on body mass index: the PLATYPUS Study. 14 Jun 2009
• Time to change concepts and terminology. 30 May 2009
• The psychosis continuum and categorical versus dimensional diagnostic approaches. 30 May 2009
• [Classification of psychoses. History, present and future] 2 May 2009
• Differentiation and clinical implications of postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis. 29 Apr 2009
• Blood brothers or just neighbours: modelling the functional psychoses. 29 Apr 2009
• Age transitions in the course of bipolar I disorder. 30 Mar 2009
• Psychosis genetics: modeling the relationship between schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and mixed (or "schizoaffective") psychoses. 25 Mar 2009
• Psychosis: a category or a dimension? 27 Feb 2009
• Psychotic symptoms as a continuum between normality and pathology. 27 Feb 2009
• A salience dysregulation syndrome. 30 Jan 2009
• Contracting schizophrenia: lessons from the influenza epidemic of 1918-1919. 19 Jan 2009
• Treatment response in psychotic patients classified according to social and clinical needs, drug side effects, and previous treatment; a method to identify functional remission. 14 Jan 2009
• [Diagnosis of bipolar disorders--re-evaluation of atypical psychosis] 30 Dec 2008
• Childhood antecedents of personality disorder: an alternative perspective. 30 Dec 2008

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Technical information about 'Psychotic Disorders'

Definition: Disorders in which there is a loss of ego boundaries or a gross impairment in reality testing with delusions or prominent hallucinations. (From DSM-IV, 1994)

Descriptor UI: D011618

Alternative terms: Psychotic Disorders; Disorder, Psychotic; Disorders, Psychotic; Psychotic Disorder; Psychoses; Schizoaffective Disorder; Disorder, Schizoaffective; Disorders, Schizoaffective; Schizoaffective Disorders; Schizophreniform Disorders; Disorder, Schizophreniform; Disorders, Schizophreniform; Schizophreniform Disorder; Psychosis, Brief Reactive; Brief Reactive Psychoses; Brief Reactive Psychosis; Psychoses, Brief Reactive; Reactive Psychoses, Brief; Reactive Psychosis, Brief;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; 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: F03.700.675;

Online Note: use PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS to search PSYCHOSES 1966-80

History Note: 81; was PSYCHOSES 1963-80

Technical Notes: puerperal psychoses = PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS (IM) + PUERPERAL DISORDERS (IM); psychoses or psychotic disord in children = CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE