Psychotic Disorders
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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...

[First episode of psychosis intensive early intervention programme versus standard treatment--secondary publication]

3 Oct 2009 A total of 547 patients with a first episode of psychosis were randomised to two years of intensive early intervention programme (OPUS) versus standard treatment. OPUS treatment consisted of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) with manuals for ... Read more...

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...

Latest indexed articles for 'Psychotic Disorders'

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
• Postpartum mood disorders: genetic progress and treatment paradigms. 30 Oct 2009
• Psychotic woman with painful abdominal distension. Life-threatening psychotropic drug-induced gastrointestinal hypomotility. 30 Oct 2009
• [First episode of psychosis intensive early intervention programme versus standard treatment--secondary publication] 3 Oct 2009
• Infection, inflammation, and mental illness. The body's immune response to infectious agents may imperil the brain. 29 Sep 2009
• 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
• The psychotomimetic effects of short-term sensory deprivation. 29 Sep 2009
• Mental illness in China. 24 Sep 2009
• Eye sign in an 18 year old man with psychosis. 7 Sep 2009
• Clinical outcomes and quality of life in patients submitted to electroconvulsive therapy. 30 Aug 2009
• Aripiprazole: dose-response relationship in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. 30 Aug 2009
• Psychosis following mycoplasma pneumonia. 30 Aug 2009
• Mood-incongruent psychosis in bipolar disorder: conditional linkage analysis shows genome-wide suggestive linkage at 1q32.3, 7p13 and 20q13.31. 30 Aug 2009
• An initial report of a new biological marker for bipolar disorder: P85 evoked brain potential. 30 Aug 2009
• Activation induced by high-dose ziprasidone: a case report. 30 Aug 2009
• Corpus callosum size and shape in established bipolar affective disorder. 30 Aug 2009
• Randomized controlled trial of interventions for young people at ultra-high risk of psychosis: study design and baseline characteristics. 30 Aug 2009
• Effect of treatment on weight gain and metabolic abnormalities in patients with first-episode psychosis. 30 Aug 2009
• Psychosis as a risk factor for violence to others: a meta-analysis. 30 Aug 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