NICE is currently developing a clinical guideline on the assessment and management of psychosis with co-existing substance misuse in adults and young people. As part of this process, draft recommendations have been published on the NICE website for public consultation...
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June 1, 2010
Autism, Psychosis and circadian clock
Image via WikipediaI recently came across this post by Michelle Dawson that states the thesis that one of the abnormalities in Autism spectrum disorders is due to abnormal circadian clock functioning. More specifically, the clock is internally driven and has a greeter ‘free running’ period and does not entrain readily to environmental and social clues.Autistics More >Rating: 0.0/1
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May 26, 2010
Autism and white Matter/Myelination: the opposite of creativty/psychosis phenotype?
Image via WikipediaA new paper by Ben Bashat et al extends their earlier findings that had found that there was accelerated maturation of white matter in children with Autism. In this new paper they use Tract Based Spatial statistics (TBSS) to determine the white matter integrity of children (age around 3 years) with Autism as More >Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)Related posts:Creativity-psycho
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May 24, 2010
More brains and bonkers connection: thinking out of a broken box
Image via WikipediaWe have covered many studies linking creativity with Psychosis and this new study by Manzano et al provides further corroborating evidence.Dopamine has been linked with psychosis and is now also being increasingly being linked with creativity, especially divergent creativity and thinking style.Divergent thinking is influenced by dopaminergic function. Reuter [6] found a correla
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March 2, 2010
Long-Time Cannabis Use Associated With Psychosis
Young adults who have used cannabis or marijuana for a longer period of time appear more likely to have hallucinations or delusions or to meet criteria for psychosis, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the May print issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...
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Prolonged Cannabis Use Linked To Psychosis
An Australian study found that prolonged use of cannabis or marijuana by young adults was linked to a higher risk of developing psychosis, with the highest risk affecting those who started using the substance in their teens, and continued using it for 6 years or more into adulthood: the risk of developing psychosis among these users was more than double that of never users...
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February 23, 2010
Autism and ADHD as opposites based on fly models?
Image via WikipediaRegular readers of this blog will know my fascination with autism and psychosis as opponents on a continuum theory . I have already been privately speculating that ADHD in childhood may be a risk factor for Psychosis in later adolescence, especially as both are supposed to have underling dopamine abnormalities, so this new More >Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)Related posts:co
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October 29, 2009
An illusory interlude
I just found a some curious case reports on two people who had hallucinations in everyday life owing to unrecognised narcolepsy, but not realising it, they assumed their hallucinated episodes had genuinely occurred.Unlike in psychosis, where affected people often believe that their hallucinations are real, people who have narcolepsy and have hallucinations are usually able to realise they were tr
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July 11, 2009
Inflammation, Psychosis, and the Brain
When the solution to a clinical or scientific puzzle eludes us for more than a century, as with schizophrenia, we need new methods to examine the pathology. If we want to make an impact on the disease we must shift research paradigms and focus on the early detection, early intervention, and new avenues of treatment that address different symptoms of schizophrenia.
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July 4, 2009
2009-07-03 Spike activity
Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:The 'men agree on female attractiveness, women don't on male attractiveness' story has been a little exaggerated. There was consensus in both groups, just more in men than women. The British Journal of Psychiatry has started putting fantastic art on its covers with a brief discussion of the piece. This month 'Welcome to my Psychosis'.A piece f
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