Frontiers in Psychiatry
2022
Eleanor Dawkins, Leola Cruden-Smith, Ben Carter et al.
37 citations
The external clinical manifestations (psychopathology) and internal subjective experience (phenomenology) of catatonia are of clinical importance but have received little attention. This study aimed to use a large dataset to describe the clinical signs of catatonia; to assess whether these signs are associated with underlying diagnosis and prognosis; and to describe the phenomenology of...
Health technology assessment
September 2015
Willem Kuyken, Rachel Hayes, Barbara Barrett et al.
Individuals with a history of recurrent depression have a high risk of repeated depressive relapse/recurrence. Maintenance antidepressant medication (m-ADM) for at least 2 years is the current recommended treatment, but many individuals are interested in alternatives to m-ADM. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) has been shown to reduce the risk of relapse/recurrence compared with usual...
The British Journal of Psychiatry
May 8, 2015
Andrew David Thompson, Suzet Tanya Lereya, Glyn Lewis et al.
62 citations
BACKGROUND: Sleep disturbances are commonly reported in the psychosis prodrome, but rarely explored in relation to psychotic experiences. AIMS: To investigate the relationship between specific parasomnias (nightmares, night terrors and sleepwalking) in childhood and later adolescent psychotic experiences. METHOD: The sample comprised 4720 individuals from a UK birth cohort. Mothers reported on...
Trials
June 10, 2014
Willem Kuyken, Sarah Byford, Richard Byng et al.
Background: Depression is a common and distressing mental health problem that is responsible for significant individual disability and cost to society. Medication and psychological therapies are effective for treating depression and maintenance anti-depressants (m-ADM) can prevent relapse. However, individuals with depression often express a wish for psychological help that can help them...
Sleep
March 1, 2014
Helen L. Fisher, Suzet Tanya Lereya, Andrew Thompson et al.
Study objectives: To examine associations between specific parasomnias and psychotic experiences in childhood. Design: Birth cohort study. Information on the presence of frequent nightmares in children was obtained prospectively from mothers during multiple assessments conducted when children were aged between 2.5 and 9 y. Children were interviewed at age 12 y about nightmares, night terrors,...
The British Journal of Psychiatry
October 31, 2008
Stanley Zammit, Theresa HM Moore, Anne Lingford‐hughes et al.
275 citations
BACKGROUND: It is unclear if research findings support clinical opinion that cannabis use leads to worse outcomes in people with psychosis, or whether this impression is confounded by other factors. AIMS: To systematically review the evidence pertaining to whether cannabis affects outcome of psychotic disorders. METHOD: We searched 10 relevant databases (to November 2006), reference lists of...
The British Journal of Psychiatry
August 31, 2008
Jeremy P. Horwood, Giovanni E. Salvi, Kate Thomas et al.
277 citations
BACKGROUND: Non-clinical psychotic symptoms appear common in children, but it is possible that a proportion of reported symptoms result from misinterpretation. There is a well-established association between pre-morbid low IQ score and schizophrenia. Psychosis-like symptoms in children may also be a risk factor for psychotic disorder but their relationship with IQ is unclear. AIMS: To...
Addiction
September 15, 2004
Stanley Zammit, Glyn Lewis
20 citations
Evidence for an association between cannabis use and psychosis continues to accumulate. A number of population-based longitudinal studies have found that cannabis use is associated with the later development of psychotic symptoms or psychotic diagnoses [1–6]. Studies of subjects with schizophrenia show associations between cannabis use and increased levels of positive symptoms [7,8] as well as...