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Articles on Psychosis
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Typically, people who experience psychosis encounter it in young adulthood or alongside dementia later in life. Post-COVID psychosis can hit adults in their middle years.
Early intervention programs for young people with psychosis might cost more initially, and require more intensive support for longer periods, but they’re worth the investment.
It was hoped intensive early intervention programs might ‘bend the curve’ and change the lifetime trajectory of illnesses such as schizophrenia. But that doesn’t appear to be the case.
Women can be reluctant to report worrying symptoms and when they do, these symptoms can be dismissed, our research shows.
People with schizophrenia are almost three times more likely to die from COVID-19 than those without the serious mental illness, making it second only to age as a risk factor for mortality.
Current mental health services aren’t targeted at young people. The few that are specialise in either complex mental health disorders, or newly emerging ones. We need a place that does everything.
Media reporting often unfairly stigmatises people with mental illness and promotes the stereotype that mental illness causes violent behaviour. New guidelines offer tips for more responsible reporting.
People with mental illness are at their most vulnerable when they’re discharged from hospital. Without the support of family or friends at this time, they’re less likely to recover.
It is essential that scientists seek to understand the unique experiences of individuals with schizophrenia.
As many as one in ten people will have a psychotic experience in their lifetime – and researchers now know your genes play a role.
Researchers are trying to distinguish the signal from the noise.
First robust confirmation of an old theory that links a fall in oestrogen with worsening mental health.
Genes, drugs in early life, and stress have been linked to the development of schizophrenia.
Anti-psychotic drugs work well for only about 30 per cent of schizophrenia patients. Meditation can offer them a route to self-acceptance and reduced anxiety.
In advance of marijuana legalization in Canada, one university in British Columbia has taken a firm stance, banning all smoking of cannabis products on campus.
Certain autoimmune disorders are linked to psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia. But some appear to be protective.
Cannabis use is linked to psychosis, but only a small number of users will experience it.
There are health risks associated with cannabis use, but there’s no evidence use will increase if it’s legalised.
Smoking cannabis has been linked with schizophrenia – and 94% seized in Britain in 2016 was of the high-potency variety.
Top contributors
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Professor of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne
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Professor; NHMRC Clinical Research Fellow; NICM Health Research Institute Deputy Director, Western Sydney University
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Adjunct Research Fellow, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Centre for Health Policy, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Professor emeritus, The University of Melbourne
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Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne), Curtin University
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Professor of Population Mental Health, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Functional Recovery in Youth Mental Health, Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne
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Associate professor and Royal Society Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford
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Senior and Ronald Philip Griffiths Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Psychiatry and Head of Mental Health, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
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Adjunct Professor of Education, Saint Mary’s University
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Assoc. Professor of Child and Youth Psychiatry, Flinders University
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Senior lecturer, Western Sydney University
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Fulbright Scholar and Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Educational Psychology & Counselling, Monash University
