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| May 15, 1999 | JANCIN, BRUCE | COPYRIGHT 2009 International Medical News Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

CHICAGO -- Diagnosis of psychotic disorders in adolescents is often inordinately delayed, to the patient's detriment, Dr. Lois T. Flaherty said at the annual meeting of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry.

There is now good evidence that the longer an adolescent's psychosis goes untreated, the longer recovery takes once treatment has begun, stressed Dr. Flaherty of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

"At this point we don't know the long-term effect of this delay, but it's certainly reasonable to assume that it's not good," she said.

"If indeed psychosis is a problem involving a neurodegenerative process, then the longer it goes on, the more irreversible it may become," noted Dr. Flaherty, a past president of the society.

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