Maurizio Coppola

Publications

• Research Article   
  Cannabis Induced Schizophrenia-Like Psychosis: A Comparative Study between Cannabis and Cocaine Use Disorder
  Author(s): Maurizio Coppola* and Raffaella Mondola
  
  Introduction: Psychosis can be defined as a combination of psychopathological symptoms including delusions and/or hallucinations without insight. Psychotic disorders may configure a primary psychiatric illness or represent the result of a functional/structural brain damage induced by substance use, neurological diseases or other medical conditions. They are multifactorial disorders in which genetic, environmental and gene-environment interaction factors contribute to the manifestation of symptoms. Among the environmental factors, psychotropic substances represent the most important removable facilitators of psychosis. Methods: In our study, we compared the prevalence of substance induced schizophrenia-like psychosis between a sample of patients affected by cannabis use disorder and a sample of patients affected by cocaine use disorder analyz.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.3371/CSRP.CMRM.051424

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