Research is shedding new light on what happens in the brains of children and adults affected by clinical depression, anxiety disorders and schizophrenia, according to Washington University in St. Louis studies…

Scans of the genome of patients with schizophrenia have revealed rare spontaneous copy number mutations that account for at least 10 percent of the non-familial cases of…

Neuroscientists at Johns Hopkins have discovered that mice lacking an enzyme that contributes to Alzheimer disease exhibit a number of schizophrenia-like behaviors. The finding raises the possibility that this enzyme…

Schizophrenia emerges from an altered pattern of brain development, and researchers continue to search for the genes that cause the brain to develop along a path that ultimately leads…

Compared with the general population, patients with schizophrenia appear to have an elevated risk of colon cancer and a lower risk of respiratory cancer, according to a report in the…

The neuregulin 1 (NRG1) gene has been the subject of considerable excitement within the psychiatric genetics literature since it was originally identified as a potential susceptibility locus for schizophrenia. Here we…

There is conflicting evidence on whether people with schizophrenia have a different risk of cancer from that of the general population.

To determine the risk of…

Schizophrenia is one of the most debilitating of the major psychiatric disorders, and is also one of the most difficult to treat. Although numerous antipsychotic treatments are available, they can cause significant…

Scientists know that the drug ketamine – street name “Special K” – can induce schizophrenia-like symptoms in drug abusers. Ketamine is also used as…

Antipsychotic medications are the cornerstone in treating people with schizophrenia. These medications fall into two main categories; typical and atypical. The term ‘typical antipsychotics’ refers to older antipsychotics such as haloperidol or chlorpromazine. Atypical…

A new study reports important evidence for a potential new treatment approach for those diagnosed with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is considered one of the most devastating of the major…

How the gene that has been pegged as a major risk factor for schizophrenia and other mood disorders that affect millions of Americans contributes to these diseases remains unclear. However,…

Schizophrenia is a debilitating mental illness that affects 1 percent of the population in all cultures. It affects equal numbers of men and women, but the onset is often later in women than in…

For the first time, researchers using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have found both structural and functional abnormalities in specific brain regions of schizophrenic patients who experience chronic…

Mentalising impairment (an impaired ability to think about people in terms of their mental states) has frequently been associated with schizophrenia.

To assess the magnitude of the deficit and analyse associated factors.…

Language disorder in schizophrenia has been described since the early accounts of this illness. Further, it has been suggested that language and psychosis have a common evolutionary origin.

Although schizophrenic…

Persistent negative symptoms represent an alternative approach for assessing negative symptoms in the context of clinical trials.

Persistent negative symptoms are designed to capture those symptoms that lead to…

Improve patients’ health, help them kick addiction with this practical approach.

Mr. V, age 49, has stable but symptomatic schizophrenia and a 33-year cigarette smoking history. He is…

People with schizophrenia have been categorised into three groups: those with full insight (aware, correct attributers); those aware of being unwell, but who misattributed their symptoms (aware, incorrect attributers); and those…

A team from Centre de recherche Université Laval Robert-Giffard (CRULRG) has made significant progress toward finding a way to determine whether a…

People with schizophrenia cannot hear false notes in music as well as healthy people do, and often cannot make out important tones that convey meaning in speech, U.S. researchers…

A Binghamton University researcher has established a new framework to help determine whether individuals might be at risk for schizophrenia.

In a study published…

In a new study from The American Journal of Human Genetics, a research team lead by Xinzhi Zhao and Ruqi Tang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) present evidence that…

A new study analyzing the economic implications of the Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness (CATIE) concludes that the older (first generation) antipsychotic medication perphenazine was…

According to British researchers, some of the symptoms of schizophrenia may be eased with music therapy.

The scientists suggest that the depression, anxiety and emotional withdrawal symptoms of schizophrenia, can…