Inclusion Criteria for Study |
• Admission to the Cleveland Clinic Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatient Unit |
• Age 18 years or under |
• Presence of first psychotic episode (for the psychotic group only) |
Exclusion Criteria for Study |
• Age over 18 years |
• Psychosis secondary to a medical condition |
• Moderate or severe mental retardation |
• Autism |
• Non-verbal patient |
• Schizophrenia diagnosed more than six months prior to admission |
• Known infection of inflammatory process |
• Presence of a first-psychotic episode (for the non-psychotic group only) |
Additional Restrictions |
• To be defined as “psychotic,” patients must exhibit at least one of the following:
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Hallucinations
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Delusions
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Peculiar fantasies
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• Patients must have Complete Blood Counts and Auto-Differential Values available for time of admission |