psychosis

Examples of psychosis in the following topics:

• Introduction to Schizophrenia and Psychosis

  • Schizophrenia is a disorder of psychosis in which the person’s thoughts, perceptions, and behaviors are out of contact with reality.
  • Schizophrenia is considered a disorder of psychosis, or one in which the person’s thoughts, perceptions, and behaviors are impaired to the point where they are not able to function normally in life.
  • In informal terms, one who suffers from a psychotic disorder (that is, has a psychosis) is disconnected from the world in which most of us live.

• Introduction to Sleep

  • Sleep deprivation can cause both physical and mental illness, such as diabetes, depression, and psychosis, and in extreme cases, it can cause hallucinations and death.
  • The link between sleep deprivation and psychosis has been well-documented.

• Social Cognition

  • People with autism, psychosis, antisocial personality disorder, and other disorders show differences in social behavior compared to their unaffected peers.

• The Schizophrenia Spectrum

  • Two episodes of psychosis (an increase from one episode in the DSM-IV) must be experienced in order for the person to qualify for this diagnosis.

• Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

  • Other common neuropsychiatric manifestations of SLE include cognitive dysfunction, mood disorder, cerebrovascular disease, seizures, polyneuropathy, anxiety disorder, and psychosis.

• Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

  • Problems may include difficulty with higher intellectual functions, short-term memory loss, dementia, amnesia, psychosis, irritability, a strange gait, speech disturbances, Parkinson's disease-like syndromes, cortical blindness, and a depressed mood.

• Lyme Disease

  • In rare cases, untreated Lyme disease may cause frank psychosis, which has been mis-diagnosed as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.

• Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Mental Illnesses

  • They can include delusions, disordered thoughts and speech, and tactile, auditory, visual, olfactory and gustatory hallucinations, typically regarded as manifestations of psychosis.

• Neurocognitive Disorders

  • Treatment of behavioral problems or psychosis due to dementia with antipsychotics is common; however, it is often not recommended due to its limited benefit and the increased risk of early death associated with it.

• Bipolar Disorders

  • The elevated mood is significant and is known as mania or hypomania depending on the severity or whether there is psychosis.