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December 25, 2024

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Paranoia May Be, in Part, a Visual Problem

Dec. 17, 2024 — Could complex beliefs like paranoia have roots in something as basic as vision? A new study finds evidence that they might. When completing a visual perception task, in which participants had to identify whether one moving dot was chasing another ...

Common Brain Network Links Brain Atrophy Patterns Seen in Schizophrenia

Dec. 12, 2024 — A new study has identified a unique brain network that links varied patterns of brain atrophy, or shrinkage, associated with ...

Antipsychotic Medications Don't Always Work the Way They're Supposed to

Dec. 5, 2024 — A study analyzed data from nearly 500,000 Canadian patients who lived in nursing homes across Canada between 2000 and 2022. It found that residents who were given antipsychotic medications showed a significant worsening of their behaviors. In fact, ...

New Hope for Schizophrenia: iTBS Over the Left DLPFC Improves Negative and Cognitive Symptoms

Dec. 3, 2024 — Theta burst stimulation (TBS) is a non-invasive brain stimulation technique known for modifying human behavior and treating neurological diseases. A group of scientists conducted a systematic review ...

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Potential New Biomarker for Psychosis Diagnosis

Nov. 25, 2024 — The current standard of care for psychosis is a diagnostic interview, but what if it could be diagnosed before the first symptom emerged? Researchers are pointing toward a potential biomarker in the ...

Cannabis Disrupts Brain Activity in Young Adults Prone to Psychosis

Nov. 20, 2024 — Young adults at risk of psychosis show reduced brain connectivity, a deficit that cannabis use appears to worsen, a new study has found. The breakthrough paves the way for psychosis treatments ...

Multiple Sclerosis Drug May Help With Poor Working Memory

Nov. 18, 2024 — Fampridine is currently used to improve walking ability in multiple sclerosis. A new study shows that it could also help individuals with reduced working memory, as seen in mental health conditions ...

Childhood Attention Issues and Genetic Factors May Predict Psychosis Risk

Oct. 28, 2024 — Researchers have found that a person's risk of developing psychotic-like experiences may be influenced by both childhood attention problems and their genetic ...

What Happens in the Brain When a Person With Schizophrenia 'Hears Voices'?

Oct. 3, 2024 — Auditory hallucinations are likely the result of abnormalities in two brain processes: a 'broken' corollary discharge that fails to suppress self-generated sounds, and a 'noisy' efference copy that ...

New Research Identifies Critical Gaps in Mental Health Care for Adults With Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders

Sep. 23, 2024 — New research finds that adults with schizophrenia spectrum disorders have high rates of comorbid mental and substance use disorders and significant ...

Researchers Discover a Mechanism That Impairs Synaptic Plasticity in the Brains of Schizophrenia Patients

Sep. 4, 2024 — A study mapped genes linked to schizophrenia and uncovered a mechanism that disrupts synaptic plasticity in affected individuals. The researchers ...

Groundbreaking Study Shows Promise for Early Detection and Intervention in Psychotic Disorders Such as Schizophrenia

Aug. 20, 2024 — Researchers uncover a link between cognition and brain networks prior to psychotic break in individuals at risk of psychotic disorders like ...

Brain's Support Cells Contribute to Alzheimer's Disease by Producing Toxic Peptide

July 23, 2024 — Oligodendrocytes are an important source of amyloid beta and play a key role in promoting neuronal dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease, according to a ...

Novel Peptide Formulation Shows Promise of Treating Cognitive Decline in Schizophrenia

June 27, 2024 — Schizophrenia is a serious mental health disorder linked to the imbalance of chemical neurotransmitters that affect cognitive capabilities. Current ...

What Researchers Know About the Genetic Complexity of Schizophrenia, to Date

Aug. 2, 2024 — A new review article outlines the genetic, neurobiological, and environmental foundations for ...

New Avenues to Developing Personalized Treatments for Schizophrenia

May 30, 2024 — A new study has demonstrated the role of two proteins in the activation and deactivation of the system through which drugs act against schizophrenia ...

Weight Gain Is Kicked to the Curb in Antipsychotic Drug Breakthrough

May 28, 2024 — Thousands of Australians struggle with serious mental health conditions. But when the recommended treatment involves antipsychotic medications, the side effects are excess kilos, which only adds ...

Study Uncovers Cell Type-Specific Genetic Insights Underlying Schizophrenia

May 23, 2024 — New research provides a map for how the genes known to increase risk of schizophrenia affect specific cells within the brain -- information researchers hope can drive the development of new, ...

Tracking the Cellular and Genetic Roots of Neuropsychiatric Disease

May 23, 2024 — A new analysis has revealed detailed information about genetic variation in brain cells that could open new avenues for the targeted treatment of diseases such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer's ...

Student Links Worm Behavior to Brain Disease

Apr. 30, 2024 — An undergraduate student turns her honor's thesis into a peer-reviewed publication on schizophrenia ...

Understaffed Nursing Homes in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods More Likely to Overuse Antipsychotics

Apr. 24, 2024 — Nursing homes in disadvantaged communities are more likely to overmedicate residents with antipsychotics, especially homes that are understaffed, according to a new ...

Two Key Brain Systems Are Central to Psychosis

Apr. 11, 2024 — When the brain has trouble filtering incoming information and predicting what's likely to happen, psychosis can result, research ...

Pilot Study Shows Ketogenic Diet Improves Severe Mental Illness

Apr. 1, 2024 — A small clinical trial found that the metabolic effects of a ketogenic diet may help stabilize the ...

Reverse Effects of Trauma? Older Brain Cells Linger Unexpectedly Before Their Death

Mar. 28, 2024 — Researchers report that mature oligodendrocytes -- the central nervous system cells critical for brain function -- cling to life following a fatal trauma for much, much longer than scientists knew. ...

Schizophrenia and Aging May Share a Common Biological Basis

Mar. 6, 2024 — Researchers have uncovered a strikingly similar suite of changes in gene activity in brain tissue from people with schizophrenia and from older adults. These changes suggest a common biological basis ...

Bullied Teens' Brains Show Chemical Change Associated With Psychosis

Feb. 6, 2024 — Researchers have found that adolescents being bullied by their peers are at greater risk of the early stages of psychotic episodes and in turn experience lower levels of a key neurotransmitter in a ...

Vigilant Monitoring Is Needed to Manage Cardiac Risks in Patients Using Antipsychotics, Doctors Say

Jan. 15, 2024 — The use of the antipsychotic drugs quetiapine and haloperidol is associated with an increased risk of ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death (SCD) caused by drug-induced QT prolongation, ...

Study Reveals Function of Little-Understood Synapse in the Brain

Jan. 14, 2024 — New research for the first time reveals the function of a little-understood junction between cells in the brain that could have important treatment implications for conditions ranging from multiple ...

Clinical Predictive Models Created by AI Are Accurate but Study-Specific, Researchers Find

Jan. 12, 2024 — Scientists were able to show that statistical models created by artificial intelligence (AI) predict very accurately whether a medication responds in people with schizophrenia. However, the models ...

Quest for Personalized Medicine Hits a Snag

Jan. 11, 2024 — The quest for personalized medicine, a medical approach in which practitioners use a patient's unique genetic profile to tailor individual treatment, has emerged as a critical goal in the health ...

Unravelling the Association Between Neonatal Proteins and Adult Health

Dec. 13, 2023 — Scientists studied two complement components that are important parts of the immune system and are linked to schizophrenia and autoimmune disorders. They studied the link between two protein ...

An Unexpected Link Between 2 Schizophrenia Risk Proteins

Oct. 26, 2023 — The discovery of a physical interaction between two proteins in brain cells that can be traced in mice to control of movement, anxiety and memory could one day open the door to development of new ...

New Clues to Early Development of Schizophrenia

Oct. 24, 2023 — Schizophrenia is a severe neuropsychiatric disease that remains poorly understood and treated. Schizophrenia onset is typically in adolescence or early adulthood, but its underlying causes are ...

Brain Connectivity Is Disrupted in Schizophrenia

Oct. 17, 2023 — Schizophrenia, a neurodevelopmental disorder that features psychosis among its symptoms, is thought to arise from disorganization in brain connectivity and functional integration. Now, a new study ...