Early intervention in psychosis: the critical‐period hypothesis

@article{Birchwood1998EarlyII,
  title={Early intervention in psychosis: the critical‐period hypothesis},
  author={Max Birchwood and Pauline Todd and Chris 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… 
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