SCHIZOPHRENIA
New ‘periodic table’ could unlock new insights into psychiatric disorders
The pace of developing treatments for psychiatric disorders has been slow.
New brain mechanism prioritizes surprises
Researchers have found how the brain's neocortex and thalamus work together to detect when things don't match expectations.
Predictable patterns in mental disorder symptoms
Mental disorders like depression and anxiety have many symptoms, people with the same diagnosis can show different combinations of symptoms.
Low-intensity exercise connected to decreased depression
Physical activity and mental health complications.
Rare sleep disorder more common than believed
Study on idiopathic hypersomnia prevalence and course.
Unexpected link between schizophrenia risk proteins
Controlling fast-spiking neurons: Cytoskeleton-membrane interaction.
New tools based on AI can help diagnose schizophrenia
A language-based computational assay of conceptual disorganization in schizophrenia.
Scientists make significant strides in studying schizophrenia genes
Studying how common genetic variants affect schizophrenia.
Cognitive function: The power of scent
Olfactory enrichment improves memory and brain structure in older adults.
Researcher identifies a key strategy to combat disease linked to autism and schizophrenia
By the time those symptoms are recognized, it’s long past the opportunity for a medical intervention.
Schizophrenia during pregnancy triples the risk of interpersonal violence
There are many opportunities for health care providers to intervene and prevent harm to these patients.
Communication defect between brain areas is linked to the psychotic disorders
Communication defect in psychotic disorders.
Study links the breakdown in brain cell development and the risk of Schizophrenia
The study is a major step forward in the hunt for developmental origins of psychiatric disorders.
‘Dark Genome’ offers clues to treatment of Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
The study opens up huge potential for new druggable targets.
3D mini-brains offer clues on origin of Schizophrenia
A fundamental discovery providing what we think is the first evidence in human tissue.
A class of drug can protect the IQ of people at risk for psychosis
The study opens up a new field of research and new hope for people affected by the microdeletion of chromosome 22.
Tracing brain receptor linked to brain disorders
A step towards a drug for schizophrenia like diseases.
Scientists recognize genes as master regulators in schizophrenia
Finding may offer a key target for future treatments.
Scientists detected early warning signs of psychosis
Psychosis is a severe mental disorder in which thoughts and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality. A new study by...
Scientists suggests ways to help mentally ill in Ghana’s prayer camps
Many individuals with schizophrenia in Ghana spend their days tied to dividers in supplication camps where they are tended to by profound healers and...
Research sheds light on the voices in our head
Most of us are familiar with the experience of silently talking to ourselves in our head. Scientists called this phenomenon as inner speech. As...