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Intervention in individuals at ultra high risk for psychosis : a review and future directions

McGorry, Patrick D. and Nelson, Barnaby and Amminger, G. Paul and Bechdolf, Andreas and Francey, Shona M. and Berger, Gregor and Riecher-Rössler, Anita and Klosterkötter, Joachim and Ruhrmann, Stephan and Schultze-Lutter, Frauke and Nordentoft, Merete and Hickie, Ian and McGuire, Philip and Berk, Michael and Chen, Eric Y. H. and Keshavan, Matcheri S. and Yung, Alison R.. (2009) Intervention in individuals at ultra high risk for psychosis : a review and future directions. The Journal of clinical psychiatry, Vol. 70, H. 9. pp. 1206-1212.

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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Over the last 15 years, a focus on early intervention in psychotic disorders has emerged. Initially, the early psychosis movement focused on timely recognition and phase-specific treatment of first-episode psychosis. However, early psychosis researchers suspected that pushing the point of intervention even further back to the prodromal phase of psychotic disorders may result in even better outcomes. This article reviews intervention research in the ultra-high-risk phase of psychotic disorders. DATA SOURCES: A literature search of intervention trials with ultra-high-risk cohorts published after 1980 was conducted on PubMed with the search terms prodrome and intervention. STUDY SELECTION: All published intervention trials with ultra-high-risk cohorts. DATA SYNTHESIS: The first generation of intervention trials indicated that both pharmacologic and psychological intervention strategies may be of value in terms of symptom reduction and delay or prevention of onset of threshold psychotic disorder. CONCLUSIONS: Further controlled intervention trials with larger sample sizes are required in order to confirm and extend these findings. We argue that the clinical staging model provides a framework for the rationale and design of such studies, with simpler, safer, and more benign interventions being better candidates for first-line treatment, while more complex and potentially harmful treatments should be reserved for those cases in which response has failed to occur. Recent evidence indicates that neuroprotective agents, such as essential fatty acids, may be a suitable form of intervention for the ultra-high-risk phase of psychotic disorders, with a positive risk-benefit balance. Ethical aspects have become more salient given the recently observed declining transition rate in ultra-high-risk samples. We outline the key questions for the next generation of ultra-high-risk intervention trials.
Faculties and Departments:03 Faculty of Medicine > Bereich Psychiatrie (Klinik) > Erwachsenenpsychiatrie UPK > Erwachsenenpsychiatrie (Riecher-Rössler)
03 Faculty of Medicine > Departement Klinische Forschung > Bereich Psychiatrie (Klinik) > Erwachsenenpsychiatrie UPK > Erwachsenenpsychiatrie (Riecher-Rössler)
UniBasel Contributors:Riecher-Rössler, Anita
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Further Journal Contribution
Publisher:Physicians Postgraduate Press
ISSN:0160-6689
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal item
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