Psychosis

external

• Causes

  • Schizophrenia
  • Mania
  • Toxic psychosis
  • Puerperal period
  • General paresis of insane
  • Hypocalcaemia
  • Lysergic acid diethylamide
  • Ecstasy
  • Amphetamine
  • Lesch Nyhan syndrome
  • Metachromatic leukodystrophy
  • Bromide
  • Cerebral X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy
  • Huntington disease
  • Thyroid Crisis

• Effects

  • Delusion
  • Hallucination
  • Catatonia
  • Disconnected thought
  • Lack of insight
  • Aggression
  • Hyperactivity
  • Psychomotor retardation

• Parents

  • Psychiatric disease

• Children

  • Symbiotic psychosis

• Treatments

  • Neuroleptic drug

• Description

  • "Mental state involving loss of contact with reality. A syndrome and not a disease. "