[Use of cannabis and psychopathological risk in onset psychosis].

Aim: The aim of the study is to assess the correlations between cannabis use and psychopathological features, disorder severity and global functioning in subjects with onset psychosis (schizophrenic and bipolar psychosis) and at risk mental state.

Materials And Methods: Sixty-seven consecutive subjects with diagnosis of bipolar spectrum disorder (N=49), schizophrenic spectrum disorder (N=5) and at risk mental state (N=13) were recruited from the SMILE (Service for Monitoring and early Intervention Looking at the fight against the onset of mental Even psychological youths' suffering). All subjects were assessed with the Self Report Symptom Inventory-90 (SCL-90), the Global Assessment of Functioning scale (GAF) and Clinical Global Impressions-Severity (CGI-S).

Cognitive function and clinical symptoms in first-episode psychosis and chronic schizophrenia before and after the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake.

Aim: On 6 April 2009, at 3:32 GMT, central Italy was struck by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake with its epicentre near L'Aquila, the capital city of the Abruzzo region. Earthquakes may precipitate psychiatric symptoms.