Unspecified. What an ambiguous term for something as bent on categorization as psychiatric diagnosis! As readers learned on March 13, 2021, there is more than meets the eye to boring-sounding ...

For decades, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (BD) were treated as distinct and unrelated psychiatric disorders. Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder characterized by altered thinking and ...

This study examines the clinical settings of first-time psychotic spectrum disorder diagnoses in an integrated health system. In this diverse cohort of patients with first-time psychotic spectrum ...

A groundbreaking study in Biological Psychiatry uncovers a relationship between cognition and brain networks prior to a psychotic break in individuals at risk for psychotic disorders. A. By using fMRI ...

In schizoaffective disorder, you’ll experience both mood episodes (mania, hypomania, or depression) and psychotic symptoms (hallucinations and delusions). The distinguishing factor is that to be ...