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A new study provides insight into how stress impacts the brain and may help to explain why some individuals are predisposed to depression when they experience chronic stress. The…

In her one-room flat, as a small shelf of porcelain cats looks on and the smell of mold hangs in the air, Zoya pulls down the left…

For the first time in alcohol addiction research, UVA investigators have successfully treated alcohol-dependent individuals with medication that is tailored specifically to match their genetic profile.

“Our…

Parents may have good reason to be concerned about how much time their kids have been spending playing their new video games since the holidays. A…

Both boys and girls who are victims of bullying, including bullying through e-mail and the internet, are at elevated risk for depression. However, according to…

There might be trouble brewing behind the glassy eyes of kids who spend too much time and energy on video games, according to a controversial new study.

In the 2-year…

Adults who suffer from attention-deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are more than three times as likely to develop a common form of degenerative dementia than those without,…

Smoking is a common problem for patients with schizophrenia. The increased tendency of patients diagnosed with this disorder is to not only smoke, but to do so more…

A large proportion of Medicare expenditures for nursing home residents with advanced dementia, a terminal illness, is spent on aggressive treatments that may be avoidable and of limited clinical…

A new study suggests that kids who are born only a year or two after an older sibling might be more likely to be diagnosed with autism than…

United States Drug Testing Laboratories (USDTL) launched two new tests for monitoring long-term alcohol exposure on Friday. Using fingernail and hair specimens, the new assay is…

Scientists in Connecticut have carried out one of the first psychological studies into eating disorders in Native American (NA) populations. The research, published in The International Journal of…

Although first approved to treat schizophrenia, new antipsychotic medications are increasingly being prescribed for a host of other uses, even when there is little evidence they work, U.S. researchers said on…

Using data collected in a study of sex differences in schizophrenia, I undertook this study to show the utility of distinguishing between sex and gender in the study of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia and…

Sex differences in schizophrenia can be caused by the disease process itself, by genetic and hormonal differences, by differences in the maturation and morphology of the brain and in age- and gender-specific behavioural…

One of the most interesting questions to arise from the study of schizophrenia is whether gender played any role for an individual’s susceptibility to this mental disorder. Since hereditary factors…

Assessment
Textbook descriptions of schizophrenia are of male-type schizophrenia. When assessing women, clinicians may miss a first episode of schizophrenia, because the woman may seem too old for a first…

On magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, reduced cortical brain areas, small left hippocampal formations, and enlarged lateral ventricles are present more often in male than in female patients with schizophrenia. There…

Female patients with schizophrenia, more often than men, are able to enter into and maintain social roles. For instance, at first occurrence of illness, roughly one-third of women are married,…

Adult-onset schizophrenia is preceded in childhood by mild neuromotor, cognitive, and behavioral anomalies that occur with the same frequency in boys and girls during early childhood. But from school age on,…

Gender effects are important to schizophrenia. Why is that so? First, they are important because of the many differences between men’s and women’s experience of schizophrenia. Clinicians need to learn to recognize these differences…

Sexual dysfunction is a common and distressing symptom in schizophrenia, with rates of up to 86–96% reported in more recent studies (Macdonald et al, 2003), and persisting throughout…

The older patients experienced less severe symptoms overall and were on lower daily doses of neuroleptics than

Although schizophrenia is commonly thought of as an illness of young adulthood, it can both extend…

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder interfering with a person’s ability to recognize what is real, manage his or her emotions, think clearly, make judgements and communicate.

People with schizophrenia usually suffer strange symptoms, such…

Abstract
Background
Antipsychotic medications are known to be commonly associated with sexual dysfunction. Sexual dysfunction is estimated to affect 30–80% of patients with schizophrenia and is a…