Psychotic Disorders - Epidemiology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Anxiety and outcome in bipolar disorder.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: Important differences exist between bipolar disorder with and without comorbid anxiety, but little is known about the long-term prognostic significance of coexisting anxiety in bipolar disorder. The authors sought to identify the anxiety ... Read more...

Association of pre-onset cannabis, alcohol, and tobacco use with age at onset of prodrome and age at onset of psychosis in first-episode patients.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: Several reports suggest that cannabis use is associated with an earlier age at onset of psychosis, although not all studies have operationalized cannabis use as occurring prior to onset of symptoms. This study addressed whether pre-onset ... Read more...

Psychosis as a risk factor for violence to others: a meta-analysis.

30 Aug 2009 The potential association between psychosis and violence to others has long been debated. Past research findings are mixed and appear to depend on numerous potential moderators. As such, the authors conducted a quantitative review (meta-analysis) of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Psychotic Disorders - Epidemiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Anxiety and outcome in bipolar disorder. 29 Sep 2009
• Association of pre-onset cannabis, alcohol, and tobacco use with age at onset of prodrome and age at onset of psychosis in first-episode patients. 29 Sep 2009
• Mental illness in China. 24 Sep 2009
• Psychosis as a risk factor for violence to others: a meta-analysis. 30 Aug 2009
• Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in patients with psychotic disorders in the Netherlands. 30 Jul 2009
• Audit of antipsychotic polypharmacy in Christchurch. 30 Jul 2009
• The cost of relapse in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. 30 Jul 2009
• Substance misuse and early psychosis. 30 Jul 2009
• Risk of suicide and suicidal ideation in psychosis: results from an Italian multi-modal pilot program on early intervention in psychosis. 29 Jun 2009
• Revised cost estimates of Medicaid recipients with serious mental illness and HIV-AIDS. 29 Jun 2009
• Somatic hospital contacts, invasive cardiac procedures, and mortality from heart disease in patients with severe mental disorder. 29 Jun 2009
• Assessing the impact of cannabis use on trends in diagnosed schizophrenia in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005. 25 Jun 2009
• Psychiatric care of patients undergoing organ transplantation. 25 Jun 2009
• A cross-sectional study of problem and pathological gambling in patients with schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder. 14 Jun 2009
• Metabolic risk factors in drug-naive patients with first-episode psychosis. 31 May 2009
• Overview of managing medical comorbidities in patients with severe mental illness. 30 May 2009
• Pervasive developmental disorders and psychosis. 30 May 2009
• The psychosis continuum and categorical versus dimensional diagnostic approaches. 30 May 2009
• Response to 'The social determinants of psychosis in migrant and ethnic minority populations: a public health tragedy'. 27 May 2009
• Differences between homicide and filicide offenders; results of a nationwide register-based case-control study. 27 May 2009

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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