Cannabis use and treatment resistance in first episode psychosis: a natural language processing study

Cannabis use, cognition and brain structure in first-episode psychosis.

Cannabis use is highly prevalent worldwide and it is associated with psychosis, but its effects on brain structure and cognition are still controversial. The aim of this paper is to investigate cognitive functioning and brain structure in patients with their first episode of psychosis who used Cannabis. We examined gray matter and lateral ventricle volumes in 28 patients with first-episode psyc...

Cannabis use and first-episode psychosis – relationship to manic and psychotic symptoms, and to age at presentation Running Title: Cannabis and first-episode psychosis

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Association of cannabis use with hospital admission and antipsychotic treatment failure in first episode psychosis: an observational study.

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether cannabis use is associated with increased risk of relapse, as indexed by number of hospital admissions, and whether antipsychotic treatment failure, as indexed by number of unique antipsychotics prescribed, may mediate this effect in a large data set of patients with first episode psychosis (FEP). DESIGN Observational study with exploratory mediation analysis....

Association of cannabis use with hospital admission and antipsychotic treatment failure in first episode psychosis: an observational study

Cannabis use and age of admission to a psychiatric unit for first episode of psychosis

Background: Research has implicated that cannabis has an aetiological role in psychosis, and thus one can hypothesize that the onset of psychosis in patients who use cannabis occurs earlier in life than those who do not use cannabis Aim: The aim of this study is to assess the possible influence of cannabis on the age of onset of patients with first episode of psychotic illness admitted to a psy...