New directions in the conceptualization of psychotic disorders

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 573-577

  Kroll, Jerome L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Community University Health Care Clinic ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bipolar disorder; Immigration; Maternal malnutrition; Psychosis; Schizophrenia; Trauma

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS; CATHA EDULIS EXTRACT;

BULLYING; CANNABIS ADDICTION; CHILD ABUSE; CIVIL DISORDER; CONCEPT FORMATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG MISUSE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIENCE; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MOOD DISORDER; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PSYCHOSIS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STARVATION; SYNDROME DELINEATION; WAR; ADDICTION; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CLASSIFICATION; FETAL MALNUTRITION; MIGRATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REFUGEE;

BIPOLAR DISORDER; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FETAL NUTRITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; REFUGEES; RISK FACTORS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 35148901606     PISSN: 09517367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/YCO.0b013e3282f08759     Document Type: Review

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