For patients with psychotic depression, response to treatment, remission rates, and cognitive improvement are better following electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) than for patients with nonpsychotic ...

The recent horrific events in a Colorado movie theater have sparked questions about how someone who appears to be a highly functioning person--a neuroscientist in this case--can become a psychotic ...

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Mental health isn’t always easy to decode. Sometimes a moment of terror can feel like reality itself is coming apart. Other times, the world really does start to ...

One sunny afternoon eight years ago, lawyer Zack McDermott sprinted through Manhattan’s Tompkins Square Park, convinced he was being filmed for his own TV show. In a psychotic break, he dropped to all ...

Antipsychotic medicines are a key part of the pharmacological treatment of schizophrenia. Although they provide therapeutic benefits, they are constrained by well-recognised limitations in terms of ...