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Abstract
Positive symptoms of psychosis disrupt mentation. Do they also engineer brain cell death and deterioration? This hypothesis is currently popular as an explanation of the duration of untreated psychosis effect in early schizophrenia. The clinical and neurobiological evidence for its validity is visited and found wanting. Synaptic plasticity, not neurotoxicity, appears to be the mediating process.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 16914639 PMCID: PMC2632265 DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbl032
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Schizophr Bull ISSN: 0586-7614 Impact factor: 9.306