A brief psychotic disorder is a psychiatric condition characterized by sudden and temporary periods of psychotic behavior, such as delusions, hallucinations, and confusion. Symptoms can endure for ...

Not all psychotic episodes signal the beginning of a long-term mental health disorder like schizophrenia. In fact, when patients experience one of these short-term breaks with reality, it's not ...

There were no prognostic differences in risk for psychotic recurrence between individuals with acute and transient psychotic disorder, brief psychotic disorder, brief intermittent psychotic symptoms, ...

A “psychotic disorder” is an umbrella term to describe multiple types of mental health conditions that involve a phenomenon called psychosis. Psychosis itself is characterized by an impaired ...

This study examines the clinical settings of first-time psychotic spectrum disorder diagnoses in an integrated health system. In this diverse cohort of patients with first-time psychotic spectrum ...

What Is a Shared Psychotic Disorder? A shared psychotic disorder is a rare type of mental illness in which a healthy person starts to take on the delusions of someone who has a psychotic disorder such ...

Scientists have discovered that testing the levels of certain proteins in blood samples can predict whether a person at risk of psychosis is likely to develop a psychotic disorder years later. The ...

DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- In addition to the fatal inflammation that comes with COVID-19, there are other more mysterious effects like the loss of taste and smell. But there's another symptom that's even ...

Some psychiatric disorders, particularly schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (BP), can prompt the emergence of so-called ...