Consistency of Delusion Themes Across First and Subsequent Episodes of Psychosis.

Importance: Despite growing interest in the phenomenology of delusions in psychosis, at present little is known about their content and evolution over time, including whether delusion themes are consistent across episodes.

Objective: To examine the course of delusions and thematic delusion content across relapse episodes in patients presenting to an early intervention service for psychosis.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This longitudinal, observational study used clinical data systematically collected from January 2003 to March 2018 from a cohort of consenting patients with affective or nonaffective first-episode psychosis, followed up naturalistically for up to 2 years in an early intervention service for psychosis in Montréal, Quebec, Canada.

Sociodemographic and clinical correlates of hallucinations in patients entering an early intervention program for first episode psychosis.

Hallucinations are a core feature of psychosis, and their severity during the acute phase of illness is associated with a range of poor outcomes. Various clinical and sociodemographic factors may predict hallucinations and other positive psychotic symptoms in first episode psychosis (FEP). Despite this, the precise factors associated with hallucinations at first presentation to an early intervention service have not been extensively researched.

Using dimensionality-reduction techniques to understand the organization of psychotic symptoms in persistent psychotic illness and first episode psychosis.

Psychotic disorders are highly heterogeneous. Understanding relationships between symptoms will be relevant to their underlying pathophysiology. We apply dimensionality-reduction methods across two unique samples to characterize the patterns of symptom organization.

Differential Trajectories of Delusional Content and Severity Over 2 Years of Early Intervention for Psychosis: Comparison Between Chennai, India, and Montréal, Canada.

Background: There exist few direct studies of delusional content in psychosis across geo-cultural contexts, especially those in which treatment protocols and measures are comparable. To directly examine an illness outcome that is potentially culturally mediated, this study investigated the baseline presentation and longitudinal trajectory of delusions in first-episode psychosis (FEP) across 2 similar treatment settings in Montréal (Canada) and Chennai (India).

Study Design: Patients entering an early intervention program for FEP in Chennai (N = 168) and Montréal (N = 165) were compared on site-level differences in the presentation of delusions across specific time points over 2 years of treatment.

"The more things change…"? Stability of delusional themes across 12 years of presentations to an early intervention service for psychosis.

Purpose: While the prevalence of delusional themes appears to be consistent across geographic contexts, little is known about the relative prevalence of such themes within a given setting over periods of time. We therefore investigated delusional themes across 12 years of presentation to a catchment-based early intervention service for first episode psychosis (FEP).

Methods: Systematically collected data from 500 patients at an early intervention service for FEP were analyzed.

Delusional content at initial presentation to a catchment-based early intervention service for psychosis.

Background: During a psychotic episode, patients frequently suffer from severe maladaptive beliefs known as delusions. Despite the abundant literature investigating the simple presence or absence of these beliefs, there exists little detailed knowledge regarding their actual content and severity at the onset of illness.

Aims: This study reports on delusions during the initiation of indicated treatment for first-episode psychosis (FEP).

Isolation and properties of a glycerophosphate acylating fraction in the fat body of Schistocerca gregaria (Forskäl).

An acyl-CoA-L-alpha-glycerophosphate acyltransferase system has been found in the fat body of the locust Schistocerca gregaria (Forskäl). After homogenization and differential centrifugation the enzyme system has been localized in two distinct particulate fractions. In both fractions phosphatidic acid was the main reaction product.