Schizophrenia is associated with subtle differences in brain structures, found in 40 to 50 % of cases, and in brain chemistry during acute psychotic states.
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Only when psychotic states persists in a sustained fashion for two weeks or longer without concurrent affective symptoms is the diagnosis schizoaffective disorder or schizophrenia.
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Defense attorneys are trying to show Yates, 37, didn't know right from wrong at the time of the killings because she was in a psychotic state.
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A psychiatrist for the defense testified that Sharpe was in a psychotic state at the time of the shooting and had suffered from various psychiatric disorders.
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But Diaz's attorney told jurors that the 34-year-old mother was in a " delusional psychotic state " in which she feared evil spirits and heard strange voices.
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In Tom's " transient psychotic state " he is floating on the ceiling, with the obese Bernhardt trailing along behind him as a silent, psychologically symbolic patriarch.
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Prochlorperazine ( Compazine, Buccastem, Stemetil ) and Pimozide ( Orap ) are less commonly used to treat psychotic states, and so are sometimes excluded from this classification.
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He said doctors were concerned that when Yates hears details about the children in court, it might " trigger her back into a deep psychotic state ."
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They can also be destroyed by trapping them in an enclosed space, which will cause the zombies to go into a psychotic state and cannibalize one another.
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Osterman said Yates was slow to start coming out of the " very severe " psychotic state she was in when her children were drowned June 20.
