First-time psychosis is a serious mental health issue. It is crucial to track symptoms to guide treatment and predict how a person will do. The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS-30) is a common tool for this. It has 30 items. It is thorough, but it takes a long time to use. This can be a problem in regular clinical settings. The PANSS-6 is a shorter v...

So, you've just experienced your first psychotic episode. It's a tough time, and one of the first things docs often recommend is antipsychotic meds. But how's that playing out in real life? A recent study dove into this, checking out how often these meds are started in the year after a first-time psychosis and what factors might influence that decision. They found t...

Scientists have long known that problems in the hippocampus, a key part of the brain, are connected to psychosis. It's been noticed that people with psychosis tend to have smaller hippocampal volumes. Some think this shrinkage could be caused by too much glutamate, a chemical that helps brain cells communicate. To test this idea, researchers looked at antipsychotic-f...