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Chapter 9.Toward a Dimensional Understanding of Psychosis and Its Treatment

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https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.books.9781585625048.gg09

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Differential Diagnosis and Characteristics of Psychosis | Genetic Characteristics of Psychosis | Psychosis as a Pathological Deterioration of Learning Memory | Treatments for Psychosis Based on Hypotheses of Hippocampal Pathology | References

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Psychosis is a mental state characterized by a set of perceptual, thought disorder, and cognitive symptoms and constructs that manifest themselves in several psychiatric diseases, such as schizophrenia and mood disorders, but also in some neurological disorders, such as epilepsy, Huntington’s disease, and Alzheimer’s disease, and in some medical diseases, especially endocrinological and metabolic conditions.

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