According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), an estimated 20 percent of people who have major depression also have psychotic symptoms. This combination is known as depressive psychosis ...

What Is a Shared Psychotic Disorder? A shared psychotic disorder is a rare type of mental illness in which a healthy person starts to take on the delusions of someone who has a psychotic disorder such ...

Brief psychotic disorder is a mental health condition in which psychotic symptoms come on suddenly but last only for a short time — less than one month. After that, people usually recover completely.

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

If you are unfortunate enough to develop acute chest pain this winter, you will probably be assessed by a clinician who will order a battery of tests to determine if your symptoms result from ...

Testing the levels of certain proteins in blood samples can predict whether a person at risk of psychosis or is likely to develop a psychotic disorder years later, suggest the findings of a novel ...

Disturbed sleep may be a sign of mental health problems Regular nightmares in childhood may be an early warning sign of psychotic disorders, researchers in the UK warn. The study, in the journal Sleep ...

A simple blood test can predict who will suffer psychotic disorders later in life, scientists claim. Researchers from the Royal College of Surgeons University in Dublin took samples from more than 100 ...