Early intervention in psychosis: the critical‐period hypothesis
@article{Birchwood1998EarlyII, title={Early intervention in psychosis: the critical‐period hypothesis}, author={M. Birchwood and P. Todd and C. Jackson}, journal={International Clinical Psychopharmacology}, year={1998}, volume={13}, pages={S31–S40} }
The early phase of psychosis may be considered as a critical period that offers major opportunities for secondary prevention of impairments and disabilities accompanying psychosis. Prospective studies of first-episode schizophrenics support the critical period hypothesis and indicate that progression, where it occurs, does so early in the disorder, with patients reaching a relatively stable plateau within 2 years of the first psychotic episode. This suggests a window of opportunity for… CONTINUE READING
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