Schizophreniform Disorder
Schizophreniform disorder is a type of psychotic illness with symptoms similar to those of schizophrenia, but lasting for less than 6 months. Like schizophrenia, schizophreniform disorder is a type of “psychosis” in which a person cannot tell what is real from what is imagined.
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Wiki Number: PW196
Diagnosis: Schizophreniform Disorder
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Age Onset: M, 18-14; W, 18-3
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Symptoms: On month of schizophrenic events while the schizophrenia diagnosis requires at least 6 months. Start as only 1/5th as many as full.
Progression: The levels of disease and shorter duration are less than full schizophrenia. But 2/3 later develop full schizophrenia.
Causes: genetic and stress-triggers; more likely with other family members with schizophrenia
Medications: antipsychotics
Therapies: individual, family and ocuppational therapies can reduce the impact
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- Investigating the associations between personality functioning, cognitive biases, and (non-)perceptive clinical high-risk symptoms of psychosis in the communityby Giulia Rinaldi on January 22, 2025
CONCLUSIONS: Our study supports the association of CHR-P-symptoms with multiple mental health factors. Findings suggest intricate associations between personality functioning impairments and cognitive biases with CHR-P-symptom expression in non-help-seeking populations, possibly contributing to different per-CHR-P- and nonper-CHR-P-symptom expression patterns. Therefore, they should be targeted in future longitudinal studies, aiming at better understanding CHR-P-manifestations to inform...
- Poor self-reported sleep is associated with prolonged white matter T2 relaxation in psychotic disordersby Umit Haluk Yesilkaya on January 22, 2025
CONCLUSION: Our results highlight the connection between poor sleep and WM abnormalities in psychotic disorders. Future research using objective sleep measures and neuroimaging techniques suitable to probe free water is needed to further our insight into this relationship.
- Polygenic risk scores for atrial fibrillation and heart failure and the risk of stroke and dementiaby Lina Rydén on January 22, 2025
Atrial fibrillation and heart failure have both been suggested to increase stroke and dementia risk. However, in observational studies, reversed causation and unmeasured confounding may occur. To mitigate these issues, this study aims to investigate if higher genetic risk for atrial fibrillation and heart failure increases dementia and stroke risk. Data were obtained from the population-based Gothenburg H70 Birth Cohort Studies in Sweden. Participants (N = 984) were born in 1930 with baseline...
- Case report: Recurrence of psychosis after the surgical resection and radiation of a temporal lobe astrocytomaby David Perekopskiy on January 21, 2025
It is estimated that the incidence of first episode psychotic disorder is about 33 people out of 100,000 each year. Beyond primary psychotic illness (e.g., schizophrenia, schizophreniform disorder), some of these patients will develop psychotic disorder due to a complex interplay of genetics, anatomical variations, traumatic brain injury (TBI), environment, substance use, and/or other causes. A small subset of patients will develop psychotic disorder due to a structural anatomic lesion, such as...