Ghosts exist only in the mind, and scientists know just where to find them, an EPFL study suggests. Patients suffering from neurological or psychiatric conditions have often reported feeling a strange "presence". Now, EPFL researchers in Switzerland have succeeded in recreating this so-called ghost ...
Date Posted: November 8, 2014
Categories: Schizophrenia
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Research published in the American Journal of Psychiatry shows that schizophrenia is not a single genetic disease, but in fact a class of diseases with variable symptoms.
Sep 17
Categories: Schizophrenia
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Oxford researchers say figures should galvanise governments to make mental health more of a priority
Aug 7
Categories: Addictions, Depression, Mental Health in Asia, Schizophrenia, Smoking ...
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When a patient with schizophrenia hears voices in their head, is the experience shaped by the culture they live in? Tanya Luhrmann and her colleagues investigated by interviewing twenty people diagnosed with schizophrenia living in San Mateo, ...
Aug 1
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In spite of the existence of stigma, the first crucial step in dealing with schizophrenia is acceptance by that individual that he or she has a mental illness.
Jul 23
Categories: Schizophrenia
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The inability to ignore irrelevant stimuli underlies the impaired working memory and cognition often experienced by individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia, reports a new study in the current issue of Biological Psychiatry.
Jul 16
Categories: Schizophrenia
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Twenty-four hours of sleep deprivation can lead to conditions in healthy persons similar to the symptoms of schizophrenia. This discovery was made by an international team of researchers under the guidance of the University of Bonn and King's ...
Jul 15
Categories: Schizophrenia, Sleep Disorders
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Understanding the basis of psychiatric disorders has been extremely challenging because there are many genetic variants that may increase risk but are insufficient to cause disease. Now investigators describe a strategy that may help reveal how such ...
Jul 7
Categories: Schizophrenia
GOThe improvement of the condition of schizophrenia is strongly linked to family involvement in the life of the schizophrenic. Family members can ease the difficulties of this serious mental illness in ways that people outside the family system cannot.
Jun 27
Categories: Family Problems, Schizophrenia
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have identified problems in a connection between brain structures that may predispose individuals to hearing the "voices" that are a common symptom of schizophrenia.
Jun 10
Categories: Schizophrenia
GONew research from the University of Rochester Medical Center describes how exposure to air pollution early in life produces harmful ...
Jun 9
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders, Mental Health in Asia, Schizophrenia
GODr Ang Yong Guan is a well-known mental health advocate and psychiatrist in Singapore, and was the longest-serving psychiatrist with the Singapore Armed Forces for almost 17 years. He knows the statistics in Singapore signal a crisis: one in six ...
Jun 2
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Using new stem cell technology, scientists at the Salk Institute have shown that neurons generated from the skin cells of people with schizophrenia behave strangely in early developmental stages, providing a hint as to ways to detect and potentially ...
May 15
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Swedish researchers have found similarities in the dopamine system between highly creative individuals and those with schizophrenia.
Apr 11
Categories: Schizophrenia
GOJohns Hopkins researchers say that an experimental anticancer compound appears to have reversed behaviors associated with schizophrenia and restored some lost brain cell function in adolescent mice with a rodent version of the devastating mental ...
Apr 10
Categories: Schizophrenia
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People with schizophrenia often misinterpret what they see and experience in the world. New research provides insight into the brain mechanisms that might be responsible for this misinterpretation. The study from the Montreal Neurological Institute ...
Apr 8
Categories: Schizophrenia
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