New data mining method can potentially detect most people at risk of developing psychosis, which would allow them to offer them preventive psychological interventions that can halve their risk of developing full-blown psychosis.
Shared Psychosis Disorder - Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention
Shared psychosis or ‘folie à deux’ is a rare mental illness where an otherwise normal person starts believing in the delusions and hallucinations of a person having a psychotic condition with whom they share a close relationship
Shared psychosis or ‘folie à deux’ is a rare mental illness where an otherwise normal person starts believing in the delusions and hallucinations of a person having a psychotic condition with whom they share a close relationship
‘Psychosis is a condition that causes you to lose touch with reality, causing you to suffer from delusions or hallucinations.
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Clinical experience has revealed that the best way to handle it is to stop it developing. Over the last 25 years, experts have extensively studied to lower the disorder's risk in young people. However, there is no systematic way to detect it, and they may have missed many at-risk people. Research leader Professor Paolo Fusar-Poli, of the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College, London, stated "Prevention is the most promising way of improving young people's mental health. This generation's mental health is especially under stress, mainly facing the ongoing COVID-19 worry, and we need to intervene instantly. The future for those at risk of psychosis is to intervene before the disorders strike".
New data mining methods developed using Natural Language Processing to search medical records for those at risk of psychosis. Many medical records are relatively unstructured, with mental health information being hidden in sections that do not allow systematic research. A novel data-mining system does a more complete record search of the people who have been referred to hospital (secondary care), looking for keywords like insomnia, cocaine, weight loss, guilt, etc. The study found that prevention can halve the risk of psychosis developing.
Delusions Types, Causes, Diagnosis and Treatment
Delusions are firm beliefs by the person of something that is not logically or practically possible. The cause of delusions is believed to be unrealistic expectation and reasoning of a situation.
Delusions are firm beliefs by the person of something that is not logically or practically possible. The cause of delusions is believed to be unrealistic expectation and reasoning of a situation.
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