Reducing the duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) is essential to improving outcomes for people with first-episode psychosis (FEP). Current US approaches are insufficient to reduce DUP to international standards of less than 90 days.Objective To determine whether population-based electronic screening in addition to standard targeted clinician education increases early detection of psychosis and decreases DUP, …
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An RCT study showing few weeks of music lessons enhance audio-visual temporal processing
Music involves different senses and is emotional in nature, and musicians show enhanced detection of audio-visual temporal discrepancies and emotion recognition compared to non-musicians. However, whether musical training produces these enhanced abilities or if they are innate within musicians remains unclear. Thirty-one adult participants were randomly assigned to a music training, music listening, or control …
Psychiatric Patients Who Do Not Believe They Deserve to Get Better
Seven years ago, our clinical research group began towork in our hospital’s partial hospital program. Patientsare most commonly referred to the partial hospital becausethey are in crisis, are being transferred from a more intensivelevel of care (ie, inpatient services), or are referred fromoutpatient settings because they have not responded totreatment. While the average length of …
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A novel adverse effect of the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine: First episode of acute #mania with #psychotic features
Dear Editor;A vaccine against SARS-CoV2, which is causing the global COVID-19 pandemic, was developed for the first-time using mRNA technology. Although the short- and long-term side-effects of the vaccine were unknown, emergency use authorization (EUA) was granted by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in December 2020(Parkash et al., 2021). Adverse effects such as tiredness, …
#Aggressive incidents in #psychiatric hospitals on #heat days
This study explores the relationship between temperature and the number of aggressive incidents and coercive interventions in the years 2007–2019 in six psychiatric hospitals in the south of the Germany with a total of 1007 beds. The number of aggressive incidents among 164 435 admissions was significantly higher on ‘heat days’ (≥30°C). Furthermore, there was …
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