Besides intervention in prepsychotic period, early intervention in psychosis includes interventions done after the onset of the first-episode psychosis, namely psychopharmacological and psychosocial phase-specific intervention. The main aim is to reduce the duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) and to ensure that besides remission of the symptoms there is also a psychosocial recovery. Many centers set up an ass...
Psychotic disorders, namely schizophrenia, are severe illnesses with their onset in adolescence or youth adult age and have a classic limited outcome. In recent years there has been some research about early intervention in psychosis which can be done in prepsychotic period (prodrome) and/or after the onset of full blown psychotic episode. The authors review the literature about the diagnosis, evaluation, and p...
Metabolic Syndrome consists in a group of metabolic changes, being the most important problem insulin resistence. Other important components of this syndrome are abdominal obesity, hypertension and hyperlipidemia /hypercholestrolemia. It was demonstrated that psychiatric patients have a greater risk to develop metabolic syndrome with a prevalence of 41%. Prevalence of this syndrome in psychiatric male patients ...
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