Schizoaffective Disorder
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: PW193
Diagnosis: Schizoaffective Disorder-Much of the Wikipedia article dealt with the validity of this particular diagnosis.
US Patients: 0.5-.0.8 (less than 1)% sometime in their lives
World Patients:
Sex Ratio: M;W+. More women in depressive; about even numbers in bipolar areas.
Age Onset: 30% between ages 25 and 35.
Brain Area: abnormal thoughts, unstable mood; psychotic symptoms for two weeks without any mood disorders. IT’s often misdiagnosed.
Symptoms: Bipolar has mania; hypomania and mixed episode vs. depressive only. May have hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech and
Progression: thinking. May include audiotory hasllucinations.
Causes: Genetics under environmental stresses; age of the father at conception; pot and other substance abuses may be factors as well.
Medications: antipsychotics, mood stabilizers and antidepressants; electroconvulsive therapy for severe and resistant symptoms.
Therapies: Returning the patient to do the normal activities of life along with vocational rehabilitation.
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
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- Prediction models in first-episode psychosis: systematic review and critical appraisalby Rebecca Lee on January 24, 2022
CONCLUSIONS: Future prediction studies in psychosis should prioritise methodological rigour and external validation in larger samples. The potential for prediction modelling in FEP is yet to be realised.
- Sleep-deprived electroencephalography, a forgotten investigation in psychiatry; a case seriesby Babak Najand on January 24, 2022
CONCLUSIONS: This study suggests the necessity of paying attention to the biological etiologies of mental illnesses in the initial assessments in psychiatric and neurological practice. Performing electroencephalogram and treating such patients with mood stabilizers, which have antiepileptic properties, can change the course of the mental illness decisively.
- The 5-year outcome of subjective quality of life in older schizophrenia patientsby Sjors M M Lange on January 24, 2022
CONCLUSION: In this cohort of older persons, it was demonstrated that SQOL might considerably change during 5-year follow-up. As course trajectories differed among subdomains, separate evaluation of these subdomains is clinically relevant. Improvement of SQOL is an attainable goal in older SSD patients despite deteriorating physical health.
- Practice patterns of bupropion co-prescription with antipsychotic medicationsby Mohan Gautam on January 24, 2022
Objective: Bupropion is one of the few medications with an FDA indication for smoking cessation. This is of particular significance due to the high co-morbidity of tobacco use disorder in patients with schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders. We sought to determine whether historical suggestions of bupropion's pro-dopaminergic activity lead prescribers to withhold bupropion in populations receiving antipsychotic medications. Methods: The prevalence in clinical practice of the...