BACKGROUND Schizophrenia spectrum psychosis is a chronic mental disorder, based on a range of genes whose expression can be altered by different environmental factors. SUBJECTS AND METHODS In this archival and demographic study of genetic isolate we show an incidence of schizophrenia spectrum psychosis in a minority population and transmission of schizophrenia spectrum psychosis through sever...

To assist in improving early interventions for psychosis, this study explored how adult people narrated their experience of becoming psychotic, and how contact with mental health personnel was established. Narrative interviews were conducted with 12 participants with psychotic illnesses recruited from acute psychiatric wards. The interviews were content analysed. Participants described being in...

Background: Psychosis and HIV/AIDS are comorbid in some subjects. Their association might be simply coexisting or complex psychosis enhances the risk to contract or protract HIV infection, and HIV/AIDS increases the risk to develop psychosis in terms direct effect of HIV on CNS or prescribed medications. Objective: This review focused on the association of psychosis and HIV/AIDS with conceptual...

BACKGROUND Social anxiety disorder constitutes a significant problem for people with psychosis. It is unclear whether this is a by-product of persecutory thinking. AIMS To compare the phenomenology of social anxiety disorder in first-episode psychosis with that in a group without psychosis. The relationship between social anxiety and psychosis symptoms was investigated. METHOD A sample of p...

OBJECTIVE Studies of patients experiencing their first episode of psychosis have demonstrated that they typically remain undiagnosed and untreated for 1-2 years. It has been postulated that prolonged untreated psychosis may have serious effects: poor response to neuroleptic medications, poor clinical outcomes, and direct neurotoxicity. This study investigated the relationships between duration ...

AIM Amphetamine and its derivates can induce, usually after many intoxications, schizophrenia-like psychosis. These disorders appeared only in part patients with amphetamine dependence. Aim of the study was to establish prevalence of selective risk factors of schizophrenia development in amphetamine users: 1) with amphetamine-induced schizophrenia-like psychosis, 2) with schizophrenia, and 2) w...

The association of thyroid disorders and thyroid-related treatments with psychiatric disorders is well known. What is not recognized yet is if antithyroid antibodies may cause psychosis in the absence of encephalopathy and thyroid dysfunction. I report here the cases of 4 patients who developed de-novo psychosis where I found they had high titers of antithyroid antibodies, both antithyroglobuli...

Psychosis is one of the most serious among the adverse effects associated with cannabis use. The association between cannabis use and psychosis has been variously explored in a series of recent meta-analyses. The results of these meta-analyses show that persons who develop psychosis experience onset of psychosis about 2-3 years earlier if they are cannabis users; this effect is not observed wit...

Background Psychosis is a condition which often starts early in life and leaves significant mark on young person’s life. It usually regarded discussed from professional point of view. This study sheds light the lived experiences adults who go through process developing their first episode psychosis.Methods Interviews were carried out with 10 adults, aged 19–32 years, 3–12 months after contact a...