Screen for psychotic disorders with a vision test?
A study reveals that errors in visual interpretation, easily detected via eye tests, could be associated with psychotic disorders such ...
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Attention problems in children: an increased risk of psychosis in adolescence?
Attention variability during childhood, combined with certain genetic profiles, may influence the risk of psychotic symptoms growing up, a study ...
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Baby blues, postpartum depression and postnatal psychosis: what are the differences?
Psychotherapist Pierre Nantas explains how to distinguish between baby blues, postpartum depression and postnatal psychosis. THE ESSENTIAL Baby blues, postpartum ...
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Sauna bathing reduces risk of psychosis
Dry steam baths are good for mental health. THE ESSENTIAL Psychoses are serious mental disorders characterized by disturbances in thinking, ...
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Video games and screens in adolescence: do they increase the risk of psychosis?
A Canadian study is reassuring about the links between the use of screens and video games in adolescence and psychotic ...
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Detecting psychotic disorders in young people in 21 questions
Asking young patients at risk of psychosis to answer a few questions on a tablet before their appointment can help ...
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Parkinsonian psychosis: hope for a new treatment
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Read moreHealth: what the French are looking for on the web
What are the concerns of the French in terms of health? To find out, an online pharmacy, Newpharma, analyzed research ...
Read moreSerial poisonings: the trial of the caregiver opens
She wanted to relieve them, not kill them. And yet, it is indeed ten deaths that Ludivine Chambet leaves in ...
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Better detection of psychotic disorders in children by genetic testing?
According to a study, caregivers could better identify psychotic disorders in a child through DNA analysis. THE ESSENTIAL According to ...
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Psychoses: the structure of the brain could play a role in their formation
Variations in the structure of the brain could promote the onset of psychoses. Millions of people suffer from psychoses around ...
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Is adherence to conspiracy theories a form of psychosis?
Irrational beliefs would be the consequence of the blocking of a receptor regulating communication at the level of synapses, the ...
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The risk of psychosis in adolescents linked to the shape of their brain?
They are small, but differences in the shape of the brain are present in adolescents at risk of psychosis. They ...
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Psychosis: antipsychotics are not always necessary in young people diagnosed early
Australian researchers believe that prescribing antipsychotic drugs is not always helpful in young people with psychosis receiving psychosocial intervention. THE ...
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‘Most people recover from psychosis’
Clinical psychologist Stijn Vanheule When things happen to us that are too intense or incomprehensible, a psychosis can arise. Stijn ...
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Brain: markers could predict the risk of psychotic disorders
MRIs show that people who are at risk of suffering from psychoses, such as schizophrenia for example, have dysfunctions in ...
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Schizophrenia and bipolarity: the brains of people at risk differ
Researchers have found differences between the brains of people from families with a history of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. Ultimately, ...
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Psychotic disorders: artificial intelligence to identify risks in language
American researchers have succeeded in detecting 93% of individuals at risk of psychosis thanks to the analysis of conversations by ...
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Severe schizophrenia: targeted cognitive training improves patients’ condition
Patients with severe schizophrenia have seen their symptoms decrease thanks to targeted cognitive training conducted with computer games. Explanations. Schizophrenia ...
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Psychotic experiences: one in four suicides is linked to hallucinations
One in four suicide attempts is actually linked to visual, auditory or olfactory hallucinations, which are much more common than ...
Read moreParkinsonian psychosis: hope for a new treatment
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Psychosis: cannabidiol would reduce symptoms
A single dose of cannabidiol would reduce certain brain dysfunctions seen in people with psychosis. Recreational cannabidiol will not be ...
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Synthetic cannabis could increase stroke risk: US doctors give warning
Doctors are sounding the alarm, following the case of an inmate suffering from a stroke after consuming synthetic cannabis. This ...
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Schizophrenia: early treatment divides mortality by 4!
A new study shows that early treatment of psychosis considerably reduces the risk of death in patients.Researchers at the Lawson ...
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How does the entry into a psychosis occur?
Better identifying the onset of psychosis is fundamental in order to put in place strategies to prevent the progression of ...
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A new hope for treatment for psychosis?
One in 10 patients with mental disorders has an immune dysfunction, according to the results ofa study published in the ...
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Cannabis: skunk increases the risk of psychosis
According to a study published in the medical journal The Lancet, skunk (literally, skunk), a strain of cannabis with powerful ...
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Schizophrenia: an algorithm to personalize treatment
INTERVIEW - Nicolas Glaichenhaus, immunologist, has developed a computer program capable of predicting the response to antipsychotics in schizophrenic patients.While ...
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Mental health: one in three patients lives in China or India
One third of people with mental or neurological disorders live in China or India. These countries also offer poor care ...
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A sleepless night: effects close to psychosis
© iStockIs lack of sleep making you lose your mind? This is completely normal, according to a study by German ...
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