People with psychotic disorders are developing delusions tied to AI use. While not an official diagnosis yet, AI psychosis is ...
Clinicians are starting to see a new kind of crisis walk through the door: people who arrive in severe distress after long, ...
Chatbots may worsen delusions in people by reinforcing false beliefs, psychiatrists warn. Mental health experts document ...
Artificial intelligence is increasingly woven into everyday life, from chatbots that offer companionship to algorithms that shape what we see online. But as generative AI (genAI) becomes more ...
Clinicians have increasingly encountered individuals with psychotic disorders whose symptoms incorporate elements of conversational systems.
In 2018, there was a criminal case of a young woman who smoked a bong containing a high dose of cannabis (marijuana) provided by her new boyfriend. She was unaccustomed to smoking pot. After taking a ...
Use of stimulants to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have grown, especially since the pandemic. But a study of adult emergency department admissions at a Mass General Brigham ...
Glutamate levels increase in early psychosis but normalize over time, challenging established perspectives on schizophrenia progression. The study involved treatment-naive patients, isolating natural ...
The prevalence of smoking among people with psychosis is notoriously high, and smoking is often regarded as a form of self-medication, but a new analysis suggests smoking itself may play a causative ...
New research suggests delusions in psychosis may function as a “lived metaphor,” shaped by emotion, the body, and lived ...
A new study investigates how anger associated with delusions — not simply being out of touch with reality — is critical in determining whether psychosis turns violent. The research, published in JAMA ...