Outcomes in first episode manic psychosisThe paper discussed here, Chang et al., (2016), presents a longitudinal 3-year follow up of first episode patients with mania with psychosis and those with a schizophreniform psychosis. This is an important study for those who work within Early Intervention in Psychosis services; although the majority of patients in such services will ultimately go on to have a diagnosis of schizophrenia, a substantial proportion will have an affective psychosis, presenting with either a depressive or manic episode, with psychotic features. Yet, most of the studies of first episode psychosis tend to be with patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia; hence, this paper begins to fill an important aporia for clinicians and researchers interested in the early course of psychotic illness more generally.
The paper discussed here, Chang et al., (2016), presents a longitudinal 3-year follow up of first episode patients with mania with psychosis and those with a schizophreniform psychosis. This is an important study for those who work within Early Intervention in Psychosis services; although the majority of patients in such services will ultimately go on to have a diagnosis of schizophrenia, a substantial proportion will have an affective psychosis, presenting with either a depressive or manic episode, with psychotic features. Yet, most of the studies of first episode psychosis tend to be with patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia; hence, this paper begins to fill an important aporia for clinicians and researchers interested in the early course of psychotic illness more generally.
