Therapeutic and Diagnostic Advances in Psychotic Disorders
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Mental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 13470
Special Issue Editor
2. Institute of Psychology Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Dewajtis 5 Street, 01-815 Warszawa, Poland
Interests: diagnosis and therapy of depression and psychosis; cognitive impairment in mental illness and borderline disorder
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The treatment of psychotic disorders is one of the most serious therapeutic challenges in psychiatry. Treatment can include drug therapy, non-pharmacological approaches such as rTMS, electroconvulsive therapy, and psychotherapeutic interactions. Modern diagnostics would enable us to perform a treatment that is more tailored to the patient's needs. We currently have a relatively wide choice of antipsychotic drugs. They can be administered both orally and intramuscularly in the form of long-acting injections. They differ in the mechanism of action, the effect on individual symptoms, and side effects. Psychological and psychotherapeutic interventions in psychotic patients are usually undertaken after acute psychotic symptoms have subsided. The disease of one family member affects everyone around them. The costs of untreated and inadequately treated psychotic disorders are borne by society as a whole. Therefore, new disease control strategies are urgently needed. This Special Issue aims to provide an overview of the latest advances in the diagnosis and treatment of psychotic disorders.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Inflammatory factors in psychotic disorders;
- The mechanisms of action of antipsychotic drugs;
- The social cost of psychotic disorders;
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the occurrence and course of psychotic disorders;
- Adverse effects of non-cooperative behaviors in psychotic disorders;
- Future perspectives for the treatment of psychotic disorders;
- The role of non-pharmacological methods in the treatment of psychotic disorders.
Dr. Anna Mosiołek
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- psychotic disorders
- diagnosis
- treatment
- pharmacotherapy
- psychotherapy
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