Psychosis - Research Article from World of Health

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 4 pages of information about Psychosis.

Psychosis - Research Article from World of Health

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 4 pages of information about Psychosis.
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Psychosis is a symptom or feature of mental illness typically characterized by radical changes in personality, impaired functioning, and a distorted or non-existent sense of objective reality.

Patients suffering from psychosis have impaired reality testing; that is, they are unable to distinguish personal, subjective experience from the reality of the external world. They experience hallucinations and/or delusions that they believe are real, and may behave and communicate in an inappropriate and incoherent fashion. Psychosis may appear as a symptom of a number of mental disorders, including mood and personality disorders. It is also the defining feature of schizophrenia, schizophreniform disorder, schizoaffective disorder, delusional disorder, and the psychotic disorders (i.e., brief psychotic disorder, shared psychotic disorder, psychotic disorder due to a general medical condition, and substance-induced psychotic disorder).

Psychosis may be caused by the interaction of biological and psychosocial factors depending on the disorder it presents in...

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