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View ArticleMIND Institute to participate in international study of schizophrenia in...
(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — Researchers at the UC Davis MIND Institute will participate in an international consortium spanning four continents that will study the genetics of schizophrenia and other...
View ArticleUCLA joins international effort to study genetics of schizophrenia in...
By Mark Wheeler - UCLA has joined an international consortium to investigate the high rates of schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric disorders in those who are affected with Chromosome 22q11.2...
View ArticleSchizophrenia linked to abnormal brain waves
Neuroscientists discover neurological hyperactivity that produces disordered thinking.
View ArticleSchizophrenia linked to abnormal brain waves
By Caroline Arbanas - Examining 12 major types of cancer, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified 127 repeatedly mutated genes that appear to drive the...
View ArticlePreventing relapse among schizophrenia patients
By Susan Bell - One in a hundred people suffers from schizophrenia. Characterized by hallucinations, delusions and gross disorganization of thought and speech, schizophrenia is a chronic, severe and...
View ArticleLeft-handed people more likely to have psychotic disorders such as...
By Karen N. Peart - Being left-handed has been linked to many mental disorders, but Yale researcher Jadon Webb and his colleagues have found that among those with mental illnesses, people with...
View ArticleCommon biology shared in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
By Bill Hathaway - Patients suffering from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder share similar cognitive and brain abnormalities, three new multi-site studies show.
View ArticleServices fail to treat prisoners with schizophrenia – increasing risk of...
New research from Queen Mary University of London shows released prisoners with schizophrenia are three times more likely to be violent than other prisoners, but only if they receive no treatment or...
View ArticleToward a Molecular Explanation for Schizophrenia
TAU researchers find inhibition of a basic cellular process may contribute to the mysterious disease
View ArticleNovel biomarker approach suggests new avenues to improve schizophrenia...
Environmental effects of events such as oxygen deprivation and infections may be preserved as markers in blood that are associated to schizophrenia, according to an international study led by the...
View ArticleNew study to explore an intervention to help reduce weight in people with...
A group of researchers, led by Professor Richard Holt at the University of Southampton, are to investigate whether people with schizophrenia or first episode psychosis are able to reduce their weight...
View ArticleSchizophrenia in the limelight: film-industry technology provides insights...
The first 30 seconds of a social encounter is crucial for people with symptoms of schizophrenia for establishing contact with people, according to new research carried out at Queen Mary University of...
View ArticleWith Large-Scale New Studies, Mount Sinai Scientists Help Underscore the...
Largest exome studies of schizophrenia to date establish critical new scientific resources for biomedical community and the possibility of more tailored treatment for patients.
View ArticleRare genetic mutations contribute to schizophrenia risk
In the largest exome sequencing effort within psychiatry to date, scientists at Karolinska Institutet and international collaborators provide new information about the genetic complexity underpinning...
View ArticleNew studies show that many rare mutations contribute to schizophrenia risk
By Veronica Meade-Kelly, Broad Communications - Researchers from the Broad Institute and several partnering institutions have taken a closer look at the human genome to learn more about the genetic...
View ArticleWhat triggers schizophrenia?
Genetic mutations in people with schizophrenia cluster in specific proteins offering a ‘new window’ into the disorder, according to University scientists.
View ArticleNUI Galway Researchers Discover New Risk Factor for Schizophrenia
Research led by NUI Galway and the University of Aberdeen published in the Journal of Cell Science
View ArticleCognitive therapy “safe and acceptable” to treat schizophrenia
Researchers from The University of Manchester have shown cognitive therapy can be used as a safe and acceptable alternative treatment to for people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders who have chosen...
View ArticleCognitive therapy might be beneficial for people with schizophrenia
For people with schizophrenia who can't or won't take antipsychotic drug treatment, cognitive therapy could be a viable therapeutic alternative, according to a groundbreaking randomised trial published...
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