Sökning: "Psychotic disorder"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 57 avhandlingar innehållade orden Psychotic disorder.
1. Psychotic disorders in the Lundby population 1947-1997: Incidence, life-time prevalence and predictors related to personality and behaviour
Sammanfattning : The aims were to analyze the first incidence, age-at-onset, prevalence and personality related predictors of psychotic disorders in the Lundby population (n=3563) – a community population followed through four waves of field study 1947-1997. Case ascertainment included interviews, registers, case notes and key informants. LÄS MER
2. Screening Family Burden in Clinical Practice : The development of a new instrument and investigation of its correlates to psychotic disorders
Sammanfattning : The primary purpose of this thesis is to develop a short and user-friendly instrument for the assessment of family burden caused by psychotic disorders. A secondary purpose is to further investigate variables that might be linked to an increased burden. Of these variables, patients’ reduced functioning will be addressed in more detail. LÄS MER
3. Long-term Outcome, Suicidal behaviour, Quality of Life and Expressed Emotion in Adolescent Onset Psychotic Disorders
Sammanfattning : This study investigated a consecutive cohort of 88 youngsters with onset of a psychotic disorder at age 15.7 (sd 1.5) years and followed-up 10.6 (sd 3. LÄS MER
4. Studies on psychotic disorders in rural Ethiopia
Sammanfattning : Background Studies on course and outcome of schizophrenia coming from low income countries are increasingly becoming important to challenge the existing dogma claiming good outcome in these countries. Besides clinical course and outcome, mortality is considered a very important outcome measure for schizophrenia. LÄS MER
5. On neuroinflammation in psychotic disorders
Sammanfattning : Neuroinflammation has been implicated in several psychiatric conditions. Based on experimental studies, the glia-derived tryptophan metabolite kynurenic acid (KYNA) may be especially relevant for positive psychotic symptoms and impaired executive functioning. LÄS MER