Workouts appear to trigger 'Miracle-Gro for the brain' that restores connections between neurons, researchers find.
Date Posted: April 7, 2016
Categories: Schizophrenia
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Refugees face a substantially higher risk of psychotic disorders, including schizophrenia, compared to non-refugee migrants from the same regions of origin, finds a new study.
Mar 23
Categories: Other, Schizophrenia
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Mood-based disorders are one of the top-ten causes of disability worldwide. However the genes underpinning these disorders have proven to be remarkably elusive, say investigators.
Jan 8
Categories: Schizophrenia
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Talk therapy coupled with early intervention and low doses of anti-psychotic medication can be more effective for people with schizophrenia than routine treatment, a major US study said Tuesday.
Oct 22
Categories: Schizophrenia
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Mr John F. Nash Jr, an American mathematician who won the 1994 Nobel Prize for Economics, was killed on May 23, along with his wife, in a car crash in New Jersey. He was the subject of a book and a film, both titled A Beautiful Mind. For the greater ...
Aug 15
Categories: Schizophrenia
GOFundamental differences between how the brain forms during adolescence have been discovered in children with schizophrenia and their siblings, a new study shows. The study opens up new avenues for researchers to explore when developing treatment for ...
Aug 8
Categories: Schizophrenia
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Applying mild electrical stimulation to an area of the brain associated with cognitive control helps people with schizophrenia to recognize errors and adjust their behavior to avoid them as much as it helps healthy subjects do so, according to a new ...
Jul 10
Categories: Schizophrenia
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Structural brain abnormalities in patients with schizophrenia, providing insight into how the condition may develop and respond to treatment, have been identified in an internationally collaborative study led by a Georgia State University scientist.
Jul 9
Categories: Schizophrenia
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Researchers have found a gene that links the three previously unrelated biological changes most commonly blamed for causing schizophrenia, making it one of the most promising culprits for the disease so far, and a good target for future treatments.
May 19
Categories: Schizophrenia
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For people that don't understand anxiety or have never experienced it, they may think it is the same as worrying about things that are going on your life. Everyone worries about things from time to time, it's a natural part of being human and ...
May 6
Categories: Anxiety, Schizophrenia
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A new Duke University study in mice links three previous and, until now, apparently unrelated hypotheses about the causes of schizophrenia, a debilitating mental disorder appearing in late adolescence that affects how people think, act and perceive ...
May 5
Categories: Schizophrenia
GOSchizophrenia is a distressing psychological disorder, which predominantly affects young people and can run in families. However, there has been limited progress in uncovering the genetic risk factors associated with schizophrenia despite numerous ...
Mar 5
Categories: Schizophrenia
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A meta-analysis of 193 brain-imaging studies shows similar gray-matter loss in the brains of people with diagnoses as different as schizophrenia, depression and addiction.
Feb 5
Categories: Addictions, Depression, Schizophrenia
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Contrary to conventional wisdom, this mental quality protects against severe mental illness.
Jan 8
Categories: Schizophrenia
GOStigma surrounding schizophrenia is a circumstance of mental illness that the newly diagnosed schizophrenic may not initially perceive or anticipate. To my knowledge, many schizophrenics initially speak of their mental illnesses publicly to ...
Dec 1
Categories: Schizophrenia
GOA gene associated with schizophrenia plays a role in brain development and may help to explain the biological process of the disease, according to new Rutgers research.
Nov 26
Categories: Schizophrenia
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