Psychotic Disorders - Etiology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

[Postictal psychosis]

12 Aug 2009 In epilepsy patients, psychotic states are related to a group of psychotic disorders with a specific phenomenology in which potential pathophysiological mechanisms are believed to be closely related to the epileptic disorder itself. Postictal ... Read more...

Psychotic events in Alzheimer's disease: application of the PLST model.

11 Aug 2009 This article focuses on a review of the literature related to the known prevalence of psychotic events in individuals with Alzheimer's disease and associated aggressive, violent behavior toward family caregivers. It also describes the impact of ... Read more...

Locus of control: relation to schizophrenia, to recovery, and to depression and psychosis -- A 15-year longitudinal study.

29 Jun 2009 The present prospectively designed 15-year longitudinal research was conducted to study whether locus of control is linked to diagnosis, to major symptoms, to functioning and recovery, and to personality for schizophrenia patients, depressive ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Psychotic Disorders - Etiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Postictal psychosis] 12 Aug 2009
• Psychotic events in Alzheimer's disease: application of the PLST model. 11 Aug 2009
• Three index series of electroconvulsive therapy for psychotic depression after orthotopic liver transplantation. 17 Jul 2009
• Locus of control: relation to schizophrenia, to recovery, and to depression and psychosis -- A 15-year longitudinal study. 29 Jun 2009
• Worsening psychosis induced by varenicline in a hospitalized psychiatric patient. 29 Jun 2009
• Chronic toxicology of cannabis. 29 Jun 2009
• [Diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties concerning patient with temporal lobe epilepsy in psychiatric practice--case report] 30 May 2009
• Neuropsychiatric lupus and association with cerebrospinal fluid immunoglobulins: a pilot study. 30 May 2009
• [Treatment of psychosis in Parkinson] 30 May 2009
• Aripiprazole treatment of psychosis in a child with posterior fossa retrocerebellar arachnoid cyst. 30 May 2009
• Glucocorticosteroids associated with a decreased risk of psychosis. 30 May 2009
• Psychosis in pregnancy. 30 May 2009
• Psychosis as the first presentation of hyperthyroidism. 17 May 2009
• Delusions, illusions and hallucinations in epilepsy: 2. Complex phenomena and psychosis. 10 May 2009
• Ganser syndrome with work-related onset in a patient with a background of immigration. 29 Apr 2009
• Mechanisms underlying aggressive and hostile behavior in amphetamine users. 29 Apr 2009
• [Thoughts about the cause of psychosis] 28 Apr 2009
• Psychotic and compulsive symptoms in Parkinson's disease. 13 Apr 2009
• Cannabinoids and psychosis. 30 Mar 2009
• Chorea-acanthocytosis presenting with schizophrenia symptoms as first symptoms. 30 Mar 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