Exempel på psychoses

• Exactly how important abnormalities in personality functioning are in the aetiology and onset of late-life paranoid psychoses is unclear.

• Suspected druginduced psychosis, affective psychoses and dual diagnoses are included.

• Those with organic psychoses or psychoses linked to major substance misuse were excluded.

• This suggests that these dimensions might correspond to discrete pathological conditions within the psychoses.

• An alternative approach relevant to genetic studies of complex disorders is to define dimensions of psychoses based on the analysis of symptom profiles in patients.

• Psychoanalysis, behaviour therapy, drama therapy, medical treatment of drug withdrawal and chronic psychoses, and feminism are just some of the frameworks adopted.

• Parents were excluded if they had chronic alcoholism, drug addiction, brain trauma, or psychoses of toxic origin.

• A detailed discussion of these psychoses is given.

• This demands that educationalists encourage a more complex understanding of depression, anxiety and psychoses as they manifest in older cohorts.

• One additional goal is the attempt to establish new relationships between objective study findings (electroencephalograms) and biological disorders underlying the psychoses.

• These findings support a shared genetic liability for both narrowly defined schizophrenia and broadly defined spectrum disorders including affective psychoses.

• Higher functions are more impaired in psychoses, not less.

• The figure was slightly lower for schizophrenia (9.4 %), and lower again (7.7 %) for non-affective, nonschizophrenic psychoses.

• However, we found that quite a number of persons with schizophrenia (15 %) and other psychoses (8 %) achieved the highest educational level.

• Our bipolar and depression classes have no correlate, since their study excluded affective psychoses.