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Study: Younger the age at migration, higher the risk of psychotic disorders

January 6, 2012
Recent research has found striking links between psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia and certain types of international immigration. Now for the first time, a major study has found that immigrating in early childhood appears to carry the highest risk.

Migration at a young age is associated with increased risk of psychotic disorders

January 5, 2012
Recent research has found striking links between psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia and certain types of international immigration. Now for the first time, a major study has found that immigrating in early childhood appears to carry the highest risk. The study, conducted in the Netherlands, found that the younger the ...

Migration at a young age is associated with increased risk of psychotic disorders

January 4, 2012
(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) Recent research has found striking links between psychotic disorders and certain types of international immigration. Now for the first time, a major study has found that immigrating in early childhood appears to carry the highest risk and that the younger the age at ...

Potential To Predict Outcome Of Psychotic Episodes Using Brain Scans

November 9, 2011
Computer analysis of brain scans could help predict how severe the future illness course of a patient with psychosis will be, according to research funded by the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust. The findings could allow doctors to make more accurate decisions about how best to treat patients. ...

Scientists make step towards using brain scans to predict outcome of psychotic episodes

November 7, 2011
Computer analysis of brain scans could help predict how severe the future illness course of a patient with psychosis will be, according to research funded by the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust. The findings could allow doctors to make more accurate decisions about how best to treat patients.

Early Diagnosis Of Psychotic Disorders

November 4, 2011
Functional psychosis can be diagnosed from the first indications of the patient, thanks to affective symptomatology. Depressive moods, hyperactivity and lack of concentration are affective symptoms that can present themselves during the first psychotic episodes, and the presence or absence of any of them may contribute to differentiating, at an ...

Precise early diagnosis of psychotic disorders possible

November 2, 2011
This release is available in Spanish . Functional psychosis can be diagnosed from the first indications of the patient, thanks to affective symptomatology. Depressive moods, hyperactivity and lack of concentration are affective symptoms that can present themselves during the first psychotic episodes, ...

Precise early diagnosis of psychotic disorders possible

November 2, 2011
(Elhuyar Fundazioa) Functional psychosis can be diagnosed from the first indications of the patient, thanks to affective symptomatology. Depressive moods, hyperactivity and lack of concentration are affective symptoms that can present themselves during the first psychotic episodes, and the presence or absence of any of them may contribute to differentiating, ...

Half of Dutch teenagers regularly have a mild psychotic experience: study

September 16, 2011
Mild psychotic experiences, such as delusive ideas or moderate feelings of paranoia, regularly occur among adolescents. Of the almost 7700 Dutch young people aged 12 to 16 years who were investigated by NWO researcher Hanneke Wigman during her doctoral research, about 40% reported that they often had such an experience. ...

Omeros Unlocks Orphan GPCR Family Linked To Metabolic And Psychotic Disorders

June 1, 2011
Omeros Corporation (NASDAQ: OMER) reported that it has identified compounds that interact with orphan G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) GPR27 and GPR173. These receptors, together with GPR85, an orphan GPCR that Omeros previously unlocked, form the SREB (Super Conserved Receptor Expressed in Brain) family, a unique and evolutionarily conserved family of ...

Even In Psychotic Disorders The Relationship With The Therapist Matters

April 12, 2011
In the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics data are presented by S. Priebe and collaborators (London, UK) that point to the importance of the therapeutic relationship in psychotic disorders. Numerous studies have shown that the quality of the therapeutic relationship (TR) between the patient and the ...

Pot Use in Youth Ups Risk of Psychotic Symptoms in Later Life

March 2, 2011
By Amanda Gardner HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, March 1 (HealthDay News) -- Smoking marijuana as a teenager or young adult raises your risk of having psychotic symptoms later in life, a new Dutch study shows. "This cements much more firmly the reality that ...