Psychosis is when a person loses touch with reality. This is the definition most recognized by the general public, and yes, it's simplistic and reductionistic. A more deeply textured definition would ...

Brief psychotic disorder is similar to schizophrenia, but rather than being a chronic illness, it lasts for less than 1 month. Psychosis isn’t always associated with a long-term illness, such as ...

Credit: Getty Images Schizophrenia is a type of psychotic disorder that affects how a person thinks and interprets reality. Like schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder is also a type of psychotic ...

According to new research, cognitive impairments in psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, are linked to brain network organization. This link between cognition and brain ...

In the early phases of depression and psychosis, patients often show altered inflammatory markers in the blood and structural changes in the gray matter of the brain. This was demonstrated in the ...

Auditory and visual hallucinations are hallmark symptoms of psychosis, but in the prodromal stage, a patient might describe hearing whispers or footsteps or notice brief distortions when looking at ...

If you have either schizophrenia or psychosis you may experience symptoms like hallucinations or delusions. But although schizophrenia and psychosis have these symptoms in common, the two conditions ...