1 / 4

Professor of Experimental Psychology Department of Psychology

Professor of Experimental Psychology Department of Psychology. Veena Kumari. PSYCHOSIS Improving Treatment Outcome. Biological and behavioural changes following psychological and biological therapies Characteristics of schizophrenia patients who show insufficient response

jesse-parrish
Download Presentation

Professor of Experimental Psychology Department of Psychology

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Professor of Experimental Psychology Department of Psychology Veena Kumari

  2. PSYCHOSISImproving Treatment Outcome • Biological and behavioural changes following psychological and biological therapies • Characteristics of schizophrenia patients who show insufficient response • New / modified strategies for poor responders Recent Findings • CBTp reduces brain responses to social threat. • (Kumari et al., 2011, Brain) • CBTp non-responders have smaller hippocampus. • (Premkumar et al, 2009, Schiz Res) • Lower prefrontal activity predicts poor CBTp response. • (Kumari et al. 2009, Biological Psychiatry) • Enhanced frontal response with atypical antipsychotics. • (Ettinger et al., 2011, Psychopharmacology)

  3. SEX, DRUGS & PSYCHOSIS Ovarian hormones and schizophrenia Ovarian hormones and response to antipsychotics Recent Findings • Sex differences in prepulse inhibition of the startle • response in healthy young, but not older samples • (Kumari, 2011 Curr. Top. Behav. Neurosci.; Kumari et al., 2008, Psychoneuropharmacology ) • Antipsychotic-like effect of progesterone in this model • (Kumari et al., 2010, Psychoneuropharmacology)

  4. Brain abnormalities and violent behaviour in SZ and APD Psychobiological abnormalities and treatment outcome in mentally disordered offenders New / modified treatment strategies for poor outcome offenders VIOLENCE IN MENTAL DISORDERSNeurobiology and Treatment Outcome Recent Findings • Opposite pattern of neural and behavioural response to anticipated threat in SZ and APD (Kumari et al., 2009, Schiz Res) • Differential cognitive and neural deficits in SZ and APD • (e.g. Barkataki et al., 2008, Behav Sci Law; Narayan et al., 2007, Am J Psychiatry)

More Related