[Attenuated psychosis syndrome: A new diagnostic category for further study in DSM-5].

[Attenuated psychosis syndrome: A new diagnostic category for further study in DSM-5]. Psychiatriki. 2017 Apr-Jun;28(2):120-130 Authors: Samiotakis G, Kollias C, Lazaratou H, Anagnostopoulos D, Kontaxakis V Abstract In recent years an increasing number of studies focus on the issue of early diagnosis and intervention. At the same time, a large number of special service units for early psychosis have been established around the world especially in Australia, USA, UK, Germany etc. Recently, similar units operate in Greece also. The Diagnostic Manual of Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric Association in its latest edition in 2013 (DSM-5), introduced the category "Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome" (APS) for people with early psychotic experiences in the section: "Conditions for further study '. This new category has specific criteria and describes a situation, in which a person displays psychotic symptoms in an attenuated form, with quite unaffected reality testing, but not qualifying a diagnosis of schizophrenic spectrum. The clinical expression of APS should be differentiated with several well known psychiatric disorders such as: brief psychotic disorder, schizotypal personality disorder, major depression with psychotic features, adolescence adjustment disorders, drug use, etc. The "Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome" occurs mainly in adolescence and in young adulthood. The mean percentage of transition to psychosis for these individu...
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