Can We Prevent Psychosis? The most important question to be answered remains: what is the best way to prevent psychosis? Given the morbidity and mortality of psychotic illnesses, there can be little doubt that we need interventions to prevent its onset. Even delaying the onset of psychosis for five years could make a huge difference in outcomes. NIMH recently funded a series of prevention trials, targeting features of the clinical high risk period such as poor social functioning and neurocognitive deficits, and using a range of interventions from cognitive behavioral social skills training to cognitive training using online computer games. If low risk approaches to intervention are able to produce even a 10 percent reduction in incidence, there could be a profound public health impact. We are not there yet. But now that we have the tools available for predicting risk, we can get serious about preventing psychosis and enabling these young people to engage in, rather than withdraw from life. #22qAwarenessDays nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2014/can-we-prevent-psychosis.shtml
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 22:30:12 +0000
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