Search for dissertations about: "affective psychosis"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 swedish dissertations containing the words affective psychosis.
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1. Neuroendocrine studies in patients with affective disorders
Abstract : Background: Affective disorders are common and a major cause for increased disability and mortality worldwide. Exogenous stressors and biological variables, including neuroendocrine factors, are assumed to contribute to an increased vulnerability to mood dysregulation. READ MORE
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2. Mental Health and Neurobehavioral Function in Young Adult Offspring of Women with a History of Psychosis and Control Offspring
Abstract : Schizophrenia is now generally considered to be a brain disease resulting from disturbed neurodevelopment, mediated by genetic and/or adverse events in utero and/or in early childhood. This process manifests itself in schizophrenia in young adulthood, when the brain completes its maturation. READ MORE
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3. Infection early in life and risk of non-affective psychosis
Abstract : In light of the increasing, but insufficient, evidence that various infections and immunological processes during brain development are associated with psychotic disorder, the aim of this thesis was to investigate infection during foetal life and childhood on the risk of developing non-affective psychosis later in life. We conducted two population-based birth cohort studies using linkages to several nationwide registers as well as two studies on a subset of cases and controls in which biological samples were examined. READ MORE
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4. Mortality in schizophrenia and affective disorder
Abstract : Patients with psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and unipolar disorder have a considerably increased mortality compared to the population. To reduce this increased mortality is a major task for clinical psychiatry, and the aim of this study is to improve the knowledge about the increased mortality in order to reduce its effects for the patients. READ MORE
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5. Long-term Outcome, Suicidal behaviour, Quality of Life and Expressed Emotion in Adolescent Onset Psychotic Disorders
Abstract : This study investigated a consecutive cohort of 88 youngsters with onset of a psychotic disorder at age 15.7 (sd 1.5) years and followed-up 10.6 (sd 3. READ MORE