Defense attorneys point to Yates' troubling history with postpartum depression, suicide attempts and psychotic behavior.
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Everyone agrees he was schizophrenic and actively psychotic, in and out of mental hospitals.
She was the first doctor to diagnose him with a psychotic disease, Pietz said.
There are a number of explanations for Mr Karzai's outbursts, other than the psychotropic or psychotic.
The spokesman said such substances and their use could have "unpredictable side effects including acute psychotic episodes".
Prosecutors argued Mr Kachkar, 46, had targeted Russell to avoid arrest, but psychiatrists said he was psychotic.
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Whenever the movie blurs the line between reality and psychotic vision, it does so for a point.
The man knows that the darkness brings to the surface the detritus of this city - the criminal, the psychotic.
Psychoticism, as he defined it, is a dimension of personality that suggests a susceptibility to psychotic behavior.
Challenges notwithstanding, these psychotic tendencies translate well in creative endeavors through what Eysenck refers to as over-inclusiveness.
Chlorprozamine, a drug used to control psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions, was found to work.
The target: a neurotransmitter called glutamate and its receptors, which malfunction in the forebrain of psychotic patients.
Psychotic features and mood disturbances may occur at the same time or may appear on and off interchangeably.
But schizophrenics also suffer from depression and an inability to feel emotion--symptoms that existing anti-psychotic drugs don't treat.
During the trial, three psychiatrists testified that Mr Kachkar was in a psychotic state during the snowplough joyride.
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The family will invariably suggest that the bang on the head is what set off the psychotic disorder.
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My mom was kind of a guinea pig for the new drugs: tranquilizing, anti-psychotic, anti-depressant, whatever they had.
But things go wrong fast and one of their own is killed by a psychotic terrorist for hire.
And there are gaps in the treatment of diseases not unusual among rich-world children, including epilepsy and psychotic conditions.
People with psychotic depression and schizophrenia may also develop such delusions, he said.
He had been admitted to hospital on several occasions but discharged himself and refused to take his anti-psychotic medication.
Allegorical pictures of contemporary events have a way of weaving in and out between the symbolic and the semi-psychotic.
His colleagues feared he was psychotic and could be a risk to fellow soldiers if deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.
Despite the controversy that his schoolwork created, classmates did not view Hasan as mentally unstable or psychotic, the source said.
The report said the evidence suggested a "probable, but weak, causal link between psychotic illness, including schizophrenia, and cannabis use".
But psychiatrist Dr Philip Joseph told the court it was more likely Bowen lost control, and did not become psychotic.
Dr. Schneider points out that the drug Dimebon bears some chemical similarity to various antidepressants and anti-psychotic drugs that improve behavior.
Psychopaths are psychotic: they suffer from delusions and hallucinations, and often have a difficult time functioning in society as a result.
In the prisoners Grassian saw, about a third had these vulnerabilities, and these were the prisoners whom solitary confinement had made psychotic.
Fortunately medicines that work on psychotic symptoms from an illness such as schizophrenia also work for psychotic symptoms arising from brain trauma.
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