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The Clinical and Dynamic Characteristics of Acute Psychosis Following the Use Synthetic Cannabinoids

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The article presents the results of research into the clinical and dynamic characteristics of psychosis following the use of synthetic cannabinoids (SC). The aim of the study is a clinical-dynamic analysis of 348 psychotic conditions following the use of synthetic cannabinoids involved 173 patients. The results of the study are: we describe the stages of psychosis development and psychosis delirious, delirious-oneiroid and amentia-like clinical variants; we demonstrated that the pathokinetic patterns of psychosis following SC use are determined by a complex of clinical, biological and socio-psychological factors; we found that the severity of clinical variants of the psychosis and consciousness disorders positively correlated with psychopathological conditions accompanied by more and more severe disorders of psychic activity (affective disorders – illusions and pareidolias – hallucinations – delusions – psychic automatism – ‘motor disorders) with simultaneous gradual depletion of psychosis psychopathologic picture resulting from the narrowing spectrum of psychopathological symptoms.

DOI 10.11648/j.ajpn.20180604.11
Published in American Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience ( Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2018 )
Page(s) 95-98
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Keywords

New Psychoactive Substances, Synthetic Cannabinoids, Spice, Psychosis

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  • V. Serbsky Federal Medical Research Center of Psychiatry and Addiction, Ministry of Health, Moscow, Russian Federation

  • V. Serbsky Federal Medical Research Center of Psychiatry and Addiction, Ministry of Health, Moscow, Russian Federation; Department of Criminal Procedure and Forensic Science, The All-Russian State University of Justice, Ministry of Justice, Moscow, Russian Federation

  • V. Serbsky Federal Medical Research Center of Psychiatry and Addiction, Ministry of Health, Moscow, Russian Federation

  • V. Serbsky Federal Medical Research Center of Psychiatry and Addiction, Ministry of Health, Moscow, Russian Federation

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