Predicting Psychosis: Exploring Pre-Clinical Signs for Mental Illness
- Source: The Neuroethics Blog
Aug 17, 2017
“This calculator,” a 2016 headline states, “can predict your risk of developing psychotic disorders.”
Psychotic disorders, including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder with psychotic features, are characterized by noticeable deficits in “normal” behavior accompanied by hallucinations, delusions, paranoia, an early onset (the average age of onset is in the late teens or early twenties), and a derailed life course.
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About the Contributor
Sunidhi Ramesh is currently an MD candidate at Thomas Jefferson University. She earned her BS in sociology and neuroscience and behavioral biology from Emory University.
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