Overview. Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) is a hormone produced by the body's adrenal glands. The body uses DHEA to make androgens and estrogens, the male and female sex hormones. DHEA levels peak at about age 25, then go down steadily as you get older. By the time people are 70 to 80 years old, their DHEA levels are only 10 to 20% those in young adults.
The Psychotic Symptom Rating Scales (Haddock et al., 1999) are semi-structured interviews designed to assess the subjective characteristics of hallucinations and delusions (see Appendix).
Psychosis is a symptom rather than a medical condition-it is not itself a psychiatric diagnosis, but a sign of a mental disorder. Psychotic symptoms may be separated out and given specific descriptions.t a general level, two types of psychiatric disorder produce psychosis: schizophrenia, and mood or affective disorder. Specific diagnoses and subtypes can display psychotic symptoms, and there is also some overlap.