Affiliation:
1. Shanghai Jiao Tong University Mental Health Center, China
2. Bangor University, UK
3. Kars Kafkas University, Turkey
Abstract
Psychosis and other symptoms of Schizophrenia (SCZ), predominantly positive symptoms, can be induced by the regular use of methamphetamine (METH), resulting in a diagnosis discourse between SCZ and METH-induced psychosis. Therefore, distinguishing both disorders based on the most prominent positive symptoms is necessary. This review aims to investigate whether the psychosis induced by METH differs from that of SCZ in terms of symptomatology, behavior, genetics, clinical features, and brain imaging analysis that have not been studied comprehensively. A comprehensive search was conducted using the PubMed. A total of 248 studies were retrieved, and through careful evaluation, 18 studies were deemed pertinent to our research objectives. The quality assessment of narrative review (SANRA) was employed to evaluate the rigor and reliability of the included studies. This review showed that psychosis induced by SCZ and METH leads to many common positive symptoms, such as thought disorders, hallucinations, and delusions.