Psychotic Disorders
Specialised care for early psychosis
A new study has found that specialised care for early psychosis can achieve better outcomes than standard care.…
Schizophrenia
Clinical Manifestations
Schizophrenia is a heterogeneous syndrome characterized by perturbations of language, perception, thinking, social activity,…
Brief Psychotic Disorder
In brief psychotic disorder, the patient experiences a full psychotic episode that is short-lived. It can be temporally…
Schizophreniform Disorder
Essentially, this is schizophrenia that fails to last for 6 months and does not involve social withdrawal.
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Delusional Disorder
Delusional disorder is characterized by nonbizarre delusions without other psychotic symptoms. It is rare, its course is chronic,…
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a disorder in which patients have psychotic symptoms and social and/or occupational dysfunction that persists for…
Schizoaffective disorder
Patients with schizoaffective disorder have psychotic episodes that resemble schizophrenia but with prominent mood disturbances. Their psychotic symptoms,…
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