News tagged with psychotic episodes
Four percent of adults worldwide using cannabis: Lancet
Nearly four percent of adults around the world use cannabis, even though the drug raises many major health concerns, according to a paper published in The Lancet on Friday.
Oct 16, 2009 |
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New Zealander says eating finger was cry for help
A mentally ill New Zealand man who cut off and ate his own finger in a rare case of self-cannibalism has described his action as a cry for help but "ultimately, a very stupid idea".
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 04, 2011 |
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Research discovers how marijuana affects the way the brain processes emotional information
Drugs like marijuana act on naturally occurring receptors in the brain called cannabinoid receptors. However, the mechanisms by which these drugs produce their sensory and mood altering effects within the brain are largely ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 05, 2011 |
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Psychotic-like symptoms associated with poor outcomes in patients with depression
Among patients with depression, the presence of many aspects of illness which may be associated with bipolar disorder does not appear to be associated with treatment resistance—evidence against the common hypothesis ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 06, 2010 |
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Intentional swallowing of foreign bodies and its impact on the cost of health care
A new study from Rhode Island Hospital found that 33 individuals were responsible for 305 cases of medical intervention to remove foreign bodies that were intentionally swallowed, resulting in more than $2 million in estimated ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 01, 2010 |
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Debate rages over health effects of marijuana
The marijuana cigarette, with its pungent smell, became a symbol of the 1960s. Bill Clinton tried it, but he didn't inhale. Comedians joked about burned-out dopers with brains altered by a variety of drugs, including pot. ...
Oct 25, 2010 |
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Schizophrenia and psychotic syndromes
Schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders are a chronic and often disabling condition. Despite modern treatment techniques they still present an enormous burden to the patients and their relatives and take a serious toll ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 29, 2010 |
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Survey reveals hidden dipolarity in many depressed respondents
Interviews with members of more than 5,000 representative U.S. households as part of the National Comorbidity Survey Replication found that nearly 40 percent of those with major depressive disorder may actually have subthreshold ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 16, 2010 |
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Unlocking mysteries of the brain with PET
Inflammatory response of brain cells—as indicated by a molecular imaging technique—could tell researchers more about why certain neurologic disorders, such as migraine headaches and psychosis in schizophrenic patients, occur ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 30, 2009 |
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Use of antipsychotic medications by children and adolescents associated with significant weight gain
Many pediatric and adolescent patients who received second-generation antipsychotic medications experienced significant weight gain, along with varied adverse effects on cholesterol and triglyceride levels and other metabolic ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Oct 27, 2009 |
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Brain Defect Implicated in Early Schizophrenia
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the first functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study of its kind, neurologists and psychiatrists at Columbia University have identified an area of the brain involved in the earliest ...
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Sep 07, 2009 |
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