Psychotic Illness: Causes & Reasons

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Possible Causes for Psychotic Illness

Velocardiofacial Syndrome

Previous studies found that mood and psychotic illnesses were the most common psychiatric disorders in patients with VCFS. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Pulver AE, Nestadt G, Goldberg R et al. (1994) Psychotic illness in patients diagnosed with velo‐cardio‐facial syndrome and their relatives. [els.net]

E., Nestadt, G., Goldberg, R., et al ( 1994 ) Psychotic illness in patients diagnosed with velo-cardio-facial syndrome and their relatives. [cambridge.org]

Psychosis

Second, that smoking is associated with an earlier age at onset of psychotic illness. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Observing the contrast related to creative productivity pre and post psychotic phase raises the probability of whether psychotic illness or process might enhance creative [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

The first step is a proper and complete diagnosis by a mental health professional with experience in assessing psychotic illness. [childmind.org]

Schizoaffective Disorder

Schizoaffective disorder is characterized by the presence of a generally continuous psychotic illness plus intermittent mood episodes. [psychcentral.com]

Home » Schizoaffective Disorder Symptoms Schizoaffective disorder is characterized by the presence of a generally continuous psychotic illness plus intermittent mood episodes [psychcentral.com]

Given that the majority of premature deaths in individuals with psychotic illness are due to medical conditions associated with modifiable risk factors, prospective studies [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Schizophrenia

[…] with a genetic vulnerability to the illness, and are independent of the frank psychotic illness. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Accordingly, measures to reduce the likelihood of a person committing homicide during a psychotic illness should not only attempt to optimise treatment, but include attention [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

These findings indicate childhood CNS viral infections increase the risk of adult psychotic illness. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Organic Hallucination

If one or both of your parents, your grandparents or siblings has experienced a psychotic illness, your likelihood of experiencing a psychotic illness is raised. [sane.org]

illnesses. [psychguides.com]

The following list provides the names and brief descriptions of different types of psychotic illness. [camh.ca]

Ganser Syndrome

Differential diagnosis[2] Acute psychotic illness such as schizophrenia. Temporal lobe epilepsy. Wernicke's encephalopathy. Head injury. Encephalitis. Meningitis. [patient.info]

illness, 6 had a depressive illness, 2 had a psychotic depression. 4 suffered from a stress or a grief reaction and 3 had Tourette's syndrome. [doi.org]

If Whitlocks's view was true, then every single case would have been considered to be suffering from a psychotic illness by the respective author. [scielo.isciii.es]

Hallucinogen Delusional Disorder

Psychotic disorders are a group of serious illnesses that affect the mind. [webmd.com]

The majority of HPPD patients do not suffer from psychosis, or other signs of psychotic illness, such as auditory hallucinations and delusions. [amrglobal.powweb.com]

Jungian analyst John Beebe (1982) has noted that, Minimally, the experience of psychotic illness is a call to the Symbolic Quest. [spiritualcompetency.com]

Childhood Schizophrenia

These cases illustrate that transient psychotic illnesses can be misdiagnosed as childhood-onset schizophrenia. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

psychotic violence. [pagepress.org]

Childhood versus adult schizophrenia The hallmark of schizophrenia in any person is psychosis - schizophrenia is a psychotic illness. [medicalnewstoday.com]

Postpartum Psychosis

[…] known psychotic illnesses, when used to suppress lactation during the early postpartum period. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Valdimarsdóttir U, Hultman CM, Harlow B, Cnattingius S, Sparén P (2009) Psychotic illness in first-time mothers with no previous psychiatric hospitalizations: A population-based [journals.plos.org]

Warning Signs of Psychosis Anyone looking to fill one of the thousands of postpartum travel nursing jobs need to have extensive knowledge of psychotic illness. [americanmobile.com]

Amphetamine Delusional Disorder

illnesses. [psychguides.com]

Treatment-emergent psychotic or manic symptoms, e.g., hallucinations, delusional thinking, or mania in children and adolescents without prior history of psychotic illness [ipfs.io]

Bipolar illness. [psychguides.com]

Somatic Delusional Disorder

Delusional disorder is lead to psychiatric diagnosis denoting a psychotic mental illness that involves holding one or more non-bizarre delusions in the absence of any other [depression-guide.com]

[…] and is treated as though it were a separate psychotic illness. [enetmd.com]

Rorschach Ink Blot Test indicates psychotic illness on the part of the patient. [mjdrdypu.org]

Organic Delusional Disorder

illnesses. [psychguides.com]

The following list provides the names and brief descriptions of different types of psychotic illness. [camh.ca]

Psychotic disorders can be triggered by stress, drug or alcohol use, injury, or illness. They can also appear on their own. [healthline.com]

Cannabis Abuse

[…] were all significant risk factors for psychotic illness; Koranic education reduced the risk. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Cannabis and mental health Regular cannabis use increases your risk of developing a psychotic illness, such as schizophrenia. [nhs.uk]

Known or suspected history or family history of schizophrenia, or other psychotic illness. [patient.info]

Phenothiazine Poisoning

[…] no-thi'a-zenz) A class of major tranquilizers used to treat psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia. They have neuroleptic and antiemetic effects. [medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com]

Psychotic Disorders Psychotic disorders are a group of serious illnesses that affect the mind. Different types of psychotic disorders include... [medicinenet.com]

Chronic neuroleptic treatment should generally be reserved for patients who suffer from a chronic psychotic illness that 1)is known to respond to neuroleptic medication, and [home.intekom.com]

Hallucinogen Hallucinosis

Cannabis use can cause drug-induced psychosis, trigger the first episode of a psychotic illness or make a pre-existing psychotic illness worse. [betterhealth.vic.gov.au]

It was noted that his symptoms were different from common psychotic illnesses. [bjmp.org]

Psychosis in Mental Illness There are a number of mental illnesses that can include psychotic episodes as a symptom. [americanaddictioncenters.org]

Narcotic Dependence

Cannabis and psychotic illness. Br J Psychiatry 1992 Nov;161:648-53. Quiroga Gallego M. Cannabis et psychopathologie parmis les jeunnes hommes. [adicciones.es]

Partial Monosomy 15q

Psychotic illness in people with Prader Willi syndrome due to chromosome 15 maternal uniparental disomy. Lancet. 2002;359:135–6. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Maternally derived microduplications at 15q11-q13: Implication of imprinted genes in psychotic illness. Am J Psychiatry. 2011;168:408–17. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Psychotic Depression

Additionally, those with a family history of depression or psychotic illness are more prone to psychotic depression. [psychcentral.com]

The Classification of Depressive Illness Maudsley Monograph 18. London, England : Oxford University Press ; 1968. 2.. Psychotic Depression. [academic.oup.com]

The first step is a proper and complete diagnosis by a mental health professional with experience in assessing psychotic illness. [childmind.org]

Drug-induced Psychosis

Check out their website to learn more about the First Episode Psychosis Program, a program dedicated to comprehensive assessment and treatment of psychotic illness. [healthtalk.umn.edu]

It has a growing range of uses, but it isn’t a proven treatment for psychotic illness. [sane.org]

H. ( 1992 ) Cannabis and psychotic illness. British Journal of Psychiatry, 161, 648 – 653. [bjp.rcpsych.org]

15q11-q13 Duplication Syndrome

illness. [journals.plos.org]

Psychotic illness in people with Prader Willi syndrome due to chromosome 15 maternal uniparental disomy. Lancet. 2002;359:135–6. [rarediseases.org]

Maternally derived microduplications at 15q11-q13: Implication of imprinted genes in psychotic illness. Am J Psychiatry. 2011;168:408–17. [rarediseases.org]

Simple Schizophrenia

Dr Benson said: “It has been known for over a hundred years that individuals with psychotic illnesses have a variety of eye movement abnormalities but until our study, using [scotsman.com]

A second contribution of the study, said Dr Messamore, is that it provides a basis for "categorizing persistent psychotic illness along physiological lines, rather than purely [medscape.com]

However, the fact that they do not reach the intensity of those seen in the typical forms of this illness (by being symptoms that are minor, brief or not of a clearly psychotic [elsevier.es]

Water Intoxication

We treated a 22-year-old man without psychotic illness who had been put in a detention facility. [karger.com]

Both clinicians and pathologists need to be aware of this condition, which may manifest itself as a psychotic illness and so go unrecognised in its early stages. [doi.org]

Evidence is lacking that the SIADH is an essential feature of a psychotic illness. Full Text Download PDF Full Text Cite This Citation Fowler RC, Kronfol ZA, Perry PJ. [jamanetwork.com]

Delusional Disorder

Medical condition: In view of recent data and after a careful review of potentially neuroprotective treatment options in early psychotic illness, we have decided to replicate [clinicaltrialsregister.eu]

7 16.7 .505 c Mental illness in first-degree relative (affective disorders) ( n, %) 4 9.3 0 0.0 .116 b Mental illness in first-degree relative (psychotic disorders) ( n, [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

In the absence of other psychotic symptoms, the diagnosis of delusional disorder was made. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Catatonia

The treatment was consequently been switched to clozapine due to fluctuated psychotic illness, and a longer duration of remittance was achieved. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

a psychotic illness. [health.howstuffworks.com]

It mainly occurs in primary mood or psychotic illness and in medical and surgical conditions such as neoplasm's, encephalitis, head traumas, diabetes, and metabolic disorders [mjdrdypu.org]

Orofacial Dyskinesia

His research is focused on the pathobiology and psychopharmacology of psychotic illness, mutant models of schizophrenia and other psychoses, and the pathobiology, psychopharmacology [books.google.com]

illness that worsens when APD is slowly discontinued; (3) avoiding off-label indications; (4) using alternative treatments when APD treatment is elective, or early dyskinesia [journalofpsychiatryreform.com]

Usually neuroleptic medications are prescribed on a long-term basis for diagnoses of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, depression with psychotic features, bipolar illness [healthyplace.com]

Depressive Episode

Psychotic Depression According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, around 20 percent of people with depression have episodes so severe that they develop psychotic [psycom.net]

Psychotic depression If you are experiencing a severe episode of depression, you may get hallucinations or delusions. [mentalhealth-uk.org]

Recent severe loss Poor health Detailed plan Inability to accept help Lack of social support Psychotic features (auditory or visual hallucinations, disorganization of speech [en.wikipedia.org]

Temporal Lobe Disorder

& Harvey, I. ( 1991 ) A polydiagnostic application of operational criteria in studies of psychotic illness. Development and reliability of the OPCRIT system. [bjp.rcpsych.org]

M., Byrne, M., Hodges, A., et al ( 2002 ) Childhood behaviour, psychotic symptoms and psychosis onset in young people at high risk of schizophrenia: early findings from the [bjp.rcpsych.org]

Psychogenic Polydipsia

In severe cases the phenomenon is often part of a wider psychotic illness. [patient.info]

Schizophrenia patients with polydipsia and water intoxication are characterized by greater severity of psychotic illness and a more frequent history of alcohol abuse. [degruyter.com]

There is no single cause for mental illness. [icdlist.com]

Mental Disorder

Psychotic illnesses were otherwise negatively associated with victimisation. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Recovery from psychotic illness: A 15- and 25-year international follow-up study Volume 178, Issue 6 G. Harrison (a1), K. Hopper (a2), T. Craig (a3), E. Laska (a2), C. [doi.org]

Crossref James L.Griffith, NeelyMyers, Michael T.Compton. (2016) How Can Community Religious Groups Aid Recovery for Individuals with Psychotic Illnesses?. [doi.org]

Anticholinergic Toxicity

A case of a 42-year-old male with recurrent psychotic illness who developed an abrupt deterioration in mental and physical status is presented. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]