All Articles Tagged As: schizophrenia

Memory, depression, insomnia-and worms? (8/6/2008)

New study may have uncovered key insights into the origins of depression, schizophrenia, insomnia and other conditions by examining a most unlikely research subject: worms. ...> Full Article

White Matter Changes in Schizophrenia (4/15/2008)

People recently diagnosed with schizophrenia have abnormalities in a specific area of the brain's white matter ...> Full Article

Brain images show schizophrenic's memory usage differs (3/18/2008)

The enduring memory problems that people with schizophrenia experience may be related to differences in how their brains process information, new research has found ...> Full Article

Bioethicist says mental illness is subject to biological and sociocultural factors (2/24/2008)

Biology is crucial to understanding psychosis, "but there is more to psychosis than mere biology," says Jason Robert, an Arizona State University bioethicist and philosopher of science. ...> Full Article

Severe Stressful Events Early In Pregnancy May Be Associated With Schizophrenia Among Offspring (2/9/2008)

Children of women who undergo an extremely stressful event-such as the death of a close relative-during the first trimester of pregnancy appear more likely to develop schizophrenia ...> Full Article

Ethnicity Predicts How Gene Variations Affect Response to Schizophrenia Medications (1/6/2008)

Different variations in the same gene influence how well different ethnic groups, and people within the same ethnic group, respond to various antipsychotic medications, report NIMH-funded researchers. If confirmed, their findings could one day help clinicians predict which medication is most likely to help a patient, based on his or her genetic makeup. ...> Full Article

Some Antipsychotic Drugs May Be Missing Their Mark (1/2/2008)

Drugs that treat depression, schizophrenia and other psychotic conditions and that target a particular protein on brain cells might not be triggering the most appropriate response in those cells, new research suggests. ...> Full Article

Researchers Develop New Genetic Method and Identify Novel Genes for Schizophrenia (12/8/2007)

Scientists at the Zucker Hillside Hospital campus of the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research have identified nine genetic markers that can increase a person's risk for schizophrenia. In a study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the research team uncovered original evidence that this disabling brain disease can be inherited in a recessive manner. A recessive trait is one that is inherited from both parents. ...> Full Article

New drug can restore social ability in schizophrenics (12/8/2007)

The social behaviour of rats displaying schizophrenic tendencies is restored when they are treated with two new potential drugs that seem to have unique effects on dopaminergic signalling. This is a conclusion of a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy. ...> Full Article

Researchers Discover Possible Markers For Mental Illness (12/7/2007)

Researchers have discovered natural genetic differences that might help predict the most effective antipsychotic drugs for particular patients with mental disorders such as schizophrenia, Parkinson's and drug addiction. ...> Full Article

New findings on prevalence of soft neurological signs (12/4/2007)

Prof. Raymond C.K. Chan, a neuropsychologist with the CAS Institute of Psychology, has made novel progress in his studies of schizophrenia. His recent work has been reported by a recent issue of Behavioural Neurology. ...> Full Article

New discoveries about nitric oxide can provide drugs for schizophrenia (11/26/2007)

Problems with memory and social function in patients with schizophrenia may result from an imbalance in the brain's nitric oxide system. A dissertation from the Sahlgrenska Academy shows that rats with characteristics of schizophrenia regain normal brain function if they receive drugs that reduce the production of nitric oxide in the brain. ...> Full Article

Connection Between Startled Response And Schizophrenia (11/18/2007)

Schizophrenia is a debilitating psychiatric illness. Its cause is currently poorly understood, and there is no known cure. In a new study Akiko Watanabe and colleagues report the identification of a gene linked to the condition. ...> Full Article

Researchers ID enzymes key to brainpower (11/14/2007)

Research could inform treatments for Alzheimer's patients ...> Full Article

Blood Pressure Drug Curbs Brain Damage From PTSD (11/10/2007)

A drug used to treat high blood pressure and enlargement of the prostate may protect the brain from damage caused by post-traumatic stress disorder, Alzheimer's disease, depression and schizophrenia. ...> Full Article

Decision-Makers Seek Internal Balance, Not Balanced Alternatives (11/4/2007)

A brain in balance, rather than the promise of pain or pleasure, may form basis of decision-making for psychiatric patients ...> Full Article

Hearing 'Messages' Embedded in Noise Could Be a Sign of Early Schizophrenia (10/30/2007)

A tendency to extract messages from meaningless noise could be an early sign of schizophrenia. ...> Full Article

Brain Waves That Distinguish False Memories From Real Ones Pinpointed (10/25/2007)

For the first time, researchers are able to pinpoint brain waves that distinguish true from false memories, providing a better understanding of how memory works and creating a new strategy to help epilepsy patients retain cognitive function. ...> Full Article

Blood may help us think (10/20/2007)

Scientists propose that blood may help us think, in addition to its well-known role as the conveyor of fuel and oxygen to brain cells. ...> Full Article

How schizophrenia develops: Major clues discovered (10/18/2007)

Schizophrenia may occur, in part, because of a problem in an intermittent on/off switch for a gene involved in making a key chemical messenger in the brain, scientists have found in a study of human brain tissue. The researchers found that the gene is turned on at increasingly high rates during normal development of the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain involved in higher functions like thinking and decision-making – but that this normal increase may not occur in people with schizophrenia. ...> Full Article

Brain's messengers could be regulated (9/18/2007)

Researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have found that tiny, spontaneous releases of the brain's primary chemical messengers can be regulated, potentially giving scientists unprecedented control over how the brain is wired. ...> Full Article

Normal role for schizophrenia risk gene identified (9/11/2007)

disc1 makes protein that helps new neurons integrate into our neural network ...> Full Article

Researcher scanning for clues in schizophrenia mystery (9/1/2007)

A University of Alberta researcher is looking for a few good men to help uncover some of the mystery that surrounds schizophrenia. ...> Full Article

Program Seeks Early Identification of Young Patients At Risk for Developing Psychosis (8/31/2007)

Early detection and intervention in psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disease in adolescence could perhaps prevent some of the devastating effects of mental illness, according to researchers with the Cognitive Assessment and Risk Evaluation (CARE) program at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Medical Center. ...> Full Article

Should Antipsychotic Drugs Be Taken For Dementia? (8/3/2007)

Antipsychotic drugs are approved mainly for treating schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, but they are also used for many other purposes. One of the most controversial is reducing disruptive behavior among elderly people with dementia. ...> Full Article

Hallucinations in Schizophrenia Linked to Brain Area that Processes Voices (8/2/2007)

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 auditory hallucinations, according to a study published in the August issue of Radiology. ...> Full Article

For Better Understanding, Researcher Simulates Schizophrenia In Healthy People (7/23/2007)

To better understand schizophrenia, a University of Missouri-Columbia psychology researcher simulated one of its more common symptoms - the inability to speak clearly or respond to questions in a precise manner - in people who don't have the illness. ...> Full Article

Gene Research Used In Test For Schizophrenia (7/20/2007)

QUT's research on schizophrenia genetic markers forms the basis of a collaboration with a major United States diagnostic product manufacturer. ...> Full Article

Exploring How Deaf People 'Hear' Voice-Hallucinations (7/17/2007)

A new UCL study, published in the July 2007 issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, systematically explores the perceptual characteristics of voice hallucinations in deaf people with schizophrenia for the first time. ...> Full Article

White Matter Research Sheds Light On Schizophrenia (7/10/2007)

An important international study has identified "white matter" abnormalities in the brain as an underlying cause of the symptoms of schizophrenia. ...> Full Article

Violence in Schizophrenia Patients More Likely Among Those with Childhood Conduct Problems (7/2/2007)

Some people with schizophrenia who become violent may do so for reasons unrelated to their current illness, according to a new study analyzing data from the Clinical Antipsychotic Trials for Intervention Effectiveness (CATIE). CATIE was funded by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). The study was published online on June 30, 2007, in the journal Law and Human Behavior. ...> Full Article