Psychosis

Clinic

• Psychosis is difficulties determining what is real and what is not real.
• Is it an entity or a disease? I think it is an entity when it is used as a Loss of insight but it would present a category of disease including ...
• The neurotransmitter dopamine is believed to play an important role.

Sign/ Symptoms

Main symptoms	Negative symptoms
Delusions / Hallucinations Incoherent Speech/ Behavior Sleep problems Difficulties carrying out daily activities	Reduced emotional expression (Flat affect) Decreased motivation (Avolition) Reduced spontaneous speech (Poverty of speech, Alogia) Lack interest and spontaneity Anhedonia Social withdrawal

Causes

Related disease	Static causes
Schizophrenia Schizoaffective disorder Bipolar disorder Sensory deprivation Psychotic depression NMDR encephalitis	Trauma Sleep deprivation Certain medications Postpartum psychosis

Entities /Miasms

	JE	EBV, RBS, LCM, CJD	NVCJD	HIV	CMV	HSV-1,2	KRU, GSS
Delusions / Hallucinations	+++	+++	+++	+++	+	+
Behavioral change	+++	+++	+++	+++	+++		+++
Thought pattern altered	+++	+++
Apathy	+++			+++

Note:

We have two kind of psychosis

• Delusions / Hallucinations:
• Behavioral change: GSS, KRU
• Both: JE, EBV, RBS, LCM, CJD