Publications by authors named "I Banos"
Introduction: Insight in psychosis has been conceptualized as a continuous, dynamic, and multidimensional phenomenon. This study aims to determine the impact of delusions and hallucinations in different dimensions of clinical insight in schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
Methods: Cross-sectional multicenter study including 516 patients (336 men) diagnosed with schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
Stressful life events (SLE) tend to occur before the onset of psychosis, this highlights the importance of its detection and evaluation in these patients. The need to have instruments that assess SLE easily and quickly underpins the objective of this study, which is to validate a short version of the questionnaire of stressful life events (QSLE). 124 patients with first-episode psychosis and 218 healthy controls aged between 11 and 52 years were recruited.
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- The study focused on the impact of cannabis use in adolescents with early onset psychosis (EOP) compared to healthy controls, noting that cannabis use is more prevalent in EOP patients.
- Significant differences in clinical presentation were not found between cannabis users and non-users, except that non-users reported more severe depressive symptoms and poorer social functioning.
- The results indicated a strong correlation between cannabis use (especially daily use and use before age 15) and an increased risk of developing EOP, highlighting the need for targeted treatment programs for young cannabis users.
Background: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2) infection elicits inflammatory manifestations that relate with a "cytokine storm."
Objective: The aim of this research was to assess the role of circulating interleukin 6 (IL-6) levels and other inflammatory markers in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on metabolic functions and accompanying clinical complications. .
Depressive symptoms and their relationship with negative and other psychotic symptoms in early onset psychosis.
Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry
September 2021
The importance of depression in adult people with first-episode psychosis (FEP) has been demonstrated. However, it has hardly been studied in children and adolescents. There is a need to broaden knowledge of the relationship between psychotic symptoms and specific depression symptomatology.
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