noun
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affective
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Medcalf goes even further, quoting a clinician's opinion that Hoccleve suffered several episodes of a manic form of affective psychosis .
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Over 70 percent of both groups were considered psychotic, with rather more men schizophrenic and rather more women suffering affective psychosis .
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Thus some investigators have argued that the association is one, not with schizophrenia, but with affective psychosis .
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In addition to these signs of affective psychosis Kempe also showed features of schizophrenia, notably hallucinations, occurring in several modalities.
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Breier and his colleagues wanted to know which area of the brain was involved in this ketamine psychosis .
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Can cause paranoia, psychosis , sterility and flashbacks several years after the drug is taken.
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It is described as a psychosis , which is characterised by a distortion in the person's perception of reality.
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Over 70 percent of both groups were considered psychotic, with rather more men schizophrenic and rather more women suffering affective psychosis .
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Some psychologists contend that even some forms of psychosis are retaliatory in nature.
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Such an image, read in psychological terms, would be the image of a psychosis .
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There have also been reports of psychosis following overuse.
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We seem here to have further evidence of the apparent paradox about creativity and psychosis to which we have referred several times.