Common 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...
View ArticleIrish Study Finds Genetic Mutation that Significantly Increases Risk of...
Medical Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have identified a rare genetic mutation which increases the risk of developing schizophrenia or bipolar disorder more than ten-fold. Identification of...
View ArticleMcLean Hospital Researchers Find Inherited Pathway of Risk for Schizophrenia
Belmont, MA - Schizophrenia is one of the most disabling of all psychiatric illnesses. Sadly, it is not uncommon and it strikes early in life. Many studies have looked into causes and potential...
View ArticleStudy shows benefits of community treatment of schizophrenia
Researchers at King's College London have led the first randomised trial to rigorously test community-based care for people with schizophrenia in a low-income country.
View ArticleExperimental Cancer Drug Reverses Schizophrenia in Adolescent Mice
Johns 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...
View ArticlePeople with schizophrenia often misinterpret what they see and experience in...
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.
View ArticleSchizophrenia and Autism may Share Genetic Mutations
Researchers from the School of Medicine in Trinity College Dublin and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories (CSHL) in the US have identified a novel mechanism which may underlie susceptibility to...
View ArticleResearch sees overlap in altered genes found in schizophrenia, autism and...
Dublin, Ireland and Cold Spring Harbor, NY – In research published today in Molecular Psychiatry, a multinational team of scientists presents new evidence supporting the theory that in at least some...
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