People who experience psychosis have somewhat lower tested intelligence, with a higher proportion of psychotic individuals scoring below the mean score of 100 on IQ tests. However, it may be the case ...

Deficits in the part of memory that forms contextual relationships between individual items in daily life appear to be common in the early stages of psychosis. Deficits in relational memory — the part ...

Delores Malaspina, M.D., M.S., MSPH, Director of the Psychosis Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, will present this work in an upcoming BBRF-hosted webinar, “The Gut-Brain Axis ...

Lesions that cause secondary psychosis were most functionally similar to lesions that cause amnesia, though lesions that cause amnesia were more likely to be in the brain’s left hemisphere while those ...

Medically reviewed by Lindsay Cook, PharmD Key Takeaways Psychosis makes a person lose touch with reality, causing sensations ...

“My year of unraveling” is how a despairing Christy Morrill described nightmarish months when his immune system hijacked his brain. What’s called autoimmune encephalitis attacks the organ that makes ...

It can be scary to see a loved one experience delusions or hallucinations, a break from reality. But behind these symptoms lies a deeply biological story. Psychosis is not the mystery it used to be.

The haunting melodies that bring tears to our eyes and the disorganized thoughts that characterize psychosis might seem worlds apart. Yet emerging research suggests these disparate experiences may ...