Sökning: "chronic psychosis"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 13 avhandlingar innehållade orden chronic psychosis.

  1. 1. Depot neuroleptic maintenance treatment: clinical, pharmacological and neuropsychological aspects

    Författare :Eva Tuninger; Lund Psykiatri; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; clinical psychology; Psychiatry; laterality.; chronic psychosis; schizophrenia; outcome; maintenance treatment; follow-up; longitudinal; neuropsychology; SPECT; auditory hallucinations; dopamine receptor occupancy; psychosomatics; Psykiatri; klinisk psykologi; psykosomatik;

    Sammanfattning : Neuroleptic maintenance treatment is effective to reduce the risk of further episodes of schizophrenia and other chronic psychoses, except affective. Lack of insight often lead to poor compliance to the prescripted medication. Then, neuroleptics might be given as depot injections. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Managing the contradictions : Recovery from severe mental disorders

    Författare :Alain Topor; Anders Bergmark; John Strauss; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Psychosis; severe mental disorder; schizophrenia; recovery; users perspective; Social work; Socialt arbete; Social Work; socialt arbete;

    Sammanfattning : One of the assumptions made when mental problems are defined as a medical problem is that certain problems, certain diagnoses, are chronic. Nevertheless, a substantial number of follow-up studies have shown that the course of development in patients with these diagnoses is neither uniform nor chronic. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Postpartum psychosis and the association with sociodemographic and obstetric factors

    Författare :Anna Nager; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Sammanfattning : Objective: To examine the association between postpartum psychosis and the sociodemographic factors age, education, marital status and year of delivery (study 1). To examine the association between neighbourhood socioeconomic characteristics and postpartum psychosis (study 2). LÄS MER

  5. 4. Infection early in life and risk of non-affective psychosis

    Författare :Åsa Blomström; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Sammanfattning : In light of the increasing, but insufficient, evidence that various infections and immunological processes during brain development are associated with psychotic disorder, the aim of this thesis was to investigate infection during foetal life and childhood on the risk of developing non-affective psychosis later in life. We conducted two population-based birth cohort studies using linkages to several nationwide registers as well as two studies on a subset of cases and controls in which biological samples were examined. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Social differentials in health-related non-employment and poverty : studies on consequences of limiting longstanding illness, musculoskeletal and mental disorders

    Författare :Johanna Falk; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Sammanfattning : The overall aim of the thesis is to increase knowledge on social differentials in employment and income consequences among persons with chronic disease. The studies were conducted in Sweden and different policy context during the first decade of the 2000s. LÄS MER