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Psychosis: When you lose touch with reality and see, hear, or believe things that aren’t real, doctors call that psychosis. You may have delusions. That means you hold on to untrue or strange beliefs. You might also have hallucinations. That’s when you imagine you hear or see something that doesn’t exist. Psychosis is a symptom, not an illness. A mental or physical illness, substance abuse, or extreme stress or trauma can cause it. Psychotic disorders, like schizophrenia, are mental illnesses that involve psychosis that usually happens for the first time in the late teen years or early adulthood. Young people are especially vulnerable for reasons doctors don’t fully understand. Even before the first episode psychosis (FEP), they may also show subtle signs of behavioral changes. This is called the prodromal period and could last days, weeks, months.or even years.
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JAN 24, 2019
Cannabis Sciences
We have discussed in this newsletter about how marijuana, in some people, can cause psychosis. This usually occurs with
...
Written By:
Amy Loriaux
JAN 03, 2019
Cannabis Sciences
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal suggests that marijuana is not as safe as it seems. It bases this claim base
...
Written By:
Amy Loriaux
DEC 27, 2018
Cannabis Sciences
WHEC News in Rochester, New York, is reporting that more adults are turning to medical marijuana to treat their child
...
Written By:
Amy Loriaux
DEC 10, 2018
Neuroscience
Dopamine in the brain is an important neurotransmitter that is often attributed to pleasure chemical. But that's not all
...
Written By:
Aswini Kanneganti
DEC 09, 2018
Health & Medicine
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is defined by the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, 5th Edition
...
Written By:
Dena Aruta
NOV 10, 2018
Health & Medicine
Chest pain, shortness of breath, and feelings of impending doom are all symptoms representative of both heart attacks an
...
Written By:
Abbie Arce
OCT 29, 2018
Cannabis Sciences
Many users of marijuana believe that it is relatively safe, particularly because, as believed, one cannot overdose on th
...
Written By:
Amy Loriaux
OCT 18, 2018
Cannabis Sciences
Here is a first: a marijuana https://youtu.be/_DlFcMWdsxw
Written By:
Amy Loriaux
OCT 07, 2018
Neuroscience
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...
Written By:
Amy Loriaux
SEP 11, 2018
Cannabis Sciences
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...
Written By:
Heba El-wassef
SEP 04, 2018
Drug Discovery & Development
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...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
AUG 02, 2018
Videos
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...
Written By:
Amanda Kahl
JUN 28, 2018
Cannabis Sciences
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Written By:
Mauri Brueggeman
MAY 24, 2018
Neuroscience
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...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 02, 2018
Cannabis Sciences
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...
Written By:
Mauri Brueggeman
FEB 08, 2018
Cannabis Sciences
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Written By:
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DEC 26, 2017
Cardiology
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...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 14, 2017
Cannabis Sciences
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Written By:
Loren DeVito
SEP 13, 2017
Neuroscience
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...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 07, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Little is known about the mechanisms that underlie schizophrenia, which can be a debilitating psychiatric disorder. New
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 16, 2017
Neuroscience
Do you hear what I hear? In recent research on auditory hallucinations, many people heard sounds that were not being mad
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 21, 2017
Neuroscience
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...
Written By:
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FEB 16, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
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...
OCT 22, 2016
Videos
In July of 1518, a sizable group of people in Strasbourg, France (as many as 400) appeared to have "contracted" a sudden
...