http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. When Chris Marciano was 4 years old, he would have a blistering tantrum whenever music came on the radio. By the second grade, his teacher described him as "not with us." At age 11, he was kicked out of school. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-mentally-ill-vain.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 10 May 2013 16:50:01 EST news287414409 (Medical Xpress)—Discharging mental health patients on community treatment orders after they have been involuntarily hospitalised may require them to be on long periods of compulsory treatment without any benefit for the patient, a new study has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-compulsory-treatment-mental-illness.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:41:09 EST news283596062 Scientists at the University of Cambridge have developed a tool capable of predicting the number of individuals expected to develop a first episode of psychotic disorder -disorders characterised by altered perceptions such as hallucinations or delusions – within regions of England and Wales. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-tool-incidence-psychosis.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:20:04 EST news279967805 The scientific community have long debated the causal relationship between cannabis use and the risk factor for psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia. Both sides of this controversial subject are put forward in two articles published today in F1000 Medicine Reports. To give rise to the debate, the authors of each article were given the opportunity to read the opposing side's article drafts and consider their arguments when structuring their own article. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-cannabis-psychosis-debate.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 11 Jan 2013 09:53:15 EST news277120387 Researchers at the University of Bergen in Norway have found new support for their theory that cannabis use causes a temporary cognitive breakdown in non-psychotic individuals, leading to long-term psychosis. In an fMRI study published this week in Frontiers in Psychiatry, researchers found a different brain activity pattern in schizophrenia patients with previous cannabis use than in schizophrenic patients without prior cannabis use. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-cannabis-mimics-cognitive-weakness-schizophrenia.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 02 Nov 2012 12:09:42 EST news271076971 One of the biggest challenges in psychiatric genetics has been to replicate findings across large studies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-replicating-genes-bipolar-disorder.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 15 Oct 2012 10:54:04 EST news269517237 The first major study on the biological effects of omega-3 fatty acids on the human brain is focusing on the role that this natural substance, primarily found in fish oil, may play in fighting psychosis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-psychosis-brain-track-effects-omega-.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 18 Jul 2012 08:08:28 EST news261817627 (Medical Xpress) -- Patients who receive early treatment for their psychoses recover more quickly and become healthier in the long run. Ten years on, twice as many of these patients are leading healthy lives compared with the control group. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-early-intervention-key-recovery.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 29 Jun 2012 07:40:01 EST news260173085 (Medical Xpress) -- Last month the United Nations backed a study that produced among other things the statistic that 15 million babies were born prematurely in 2010, a number that represents how far medical science has come in saving babies that are born early; unfortunately, it might also signal a coming rise in the number of people that develop severe mental disorders as a team of researchers from Britain and Sweden, with lead Chiara Nosarti, of King's College, has found that babies born at less than 32 weeks into a pregnancy have a three times greater chance of developing a severe mental disorder in adulthood. The team has published the results of their findings in the Archives of General Psychiatry. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-link-premature-births-severe-mental.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 04 Jun 2012 07:48:27 EST news258014896 Cognitive therapy reduces the severity of psychotic experiences in adults who are at risk of developing conditions such as schizophrenia, a randomised controlled trial published in the British Medical Journal claims. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-cognitive-therapy-severity-distress-psychotic.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:30:01 EST news252860687 (Medical Xpress) -- Twenty-nine pregnant women with a history of psychotic symptoms after previous deliveries, but not at other times, all remained stable without medication throughout their current pregnancies. Those who then began taking lithium or an antipsychotic within hours after delivery remained free of relapse after childbirth. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-treatment-pregnant-women-high-postpartum.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 09 Mar 2012 08:40:56 EST news250504800 Adolescents diagnosed with schizophrenia and other psychoses appear to show greater decreases in gray matter volume and increases in cerebrospinal fluid in the frontal lobe compared to healthy adolescents without a diagnosis of psychosis, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of General Psychiatry. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-schizophrenia-diagnosis-brain-adolescents.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:00:11 EST news244731708 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. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-scientists-brain-scans-outcome-psychotic.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:48:29 EST news239892502 The stigma of psychosis can isolate carers and make them more reluctant to access crucial support, especially in migrant communities. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-stigma-burden-psychosis.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:45:39 EST news238232729 Researchers from Taiwan have confirmed a bidirectional relation between schizophrenia and epilepsy. The study published today in Epilepsia, a journal of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE), reports that patients with epilepsy were nearly 8 times more likely to develop schizophrenia and those with schizophrenia were close to 6 times more likely to develop epilepsy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-bidirectional-relationship-schizophrenia-epilepsy.html Medical research Mon, 19 Sep 2011 03:13:30 EST news235620802 A literature review in the latest issue of Psychiatric Services indicates that after experiencing a first episode of psychosis, about half of those with substance use disorders become abstinent or significantly reduce their alcohol and drug use, even when they don’t receive specialized substance abuse treatment. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-first-episode-psychosis-substance.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:40:01 EST news234087745 Case studies indicate the recreational use of synthetic cannabis may lead to psychosis that can last for days or months in some cases, according to a study at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting in Hawaii. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-synthetic-cannabis-linked-psychosis.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 18 May 2011 12:37:04 EST news224941001