A new study has found that specialised care for early psychosis can achieve better outcomes than standard care.

Patients treated by an ‘early onset’ team were significantly better after 18 months in…

Clinical Manifestations
Schizophrenia is a heterogeneous syndrome characterized by perturbations of language, perception, thinking, social activity, affect, and volition. There are no pathognomonic features. The syndrome commonly begins in late adolescence, has an insidious (and…

In brief psychotic disorder, the patient experiences a full psychotic episode that is short-lived. It can be temporally related to some stressor or occur postpartum, but is also seen without any apparent antecedent.

Essentially, this is schizophrenia that fails to last for 6 months and does not involve social withdrawal.

Epidemiology

The validity of this diagnosis is under question.
Outcome studies of this disorder indicate…

Delusional disorder is characterized by nonbizarre delusions without other psychotic symptoms. It is rare, its course is chronic, and treatment is supportive.

Epidemiology

This disorder is rare, with a prevalence of <0.05%. Generally, onset…

Schizophrenia is a disorder in which patients have psychotic symptoms and social and/or occupational dysfunction that persists for at least 6 months.

Epidemiology

Schizophrenia affects I % of the population. The typical age of onset…

Patients with schizoaffective disorder have psychotic episodes that resemble schizophrenia but with prominent mood disturbances. Their psychotic symptoms, however, must persist for some time in the absence of any mood syndrome.

Epidemiology

Lifetime prevalence…