Schizophrenia News
November 24, 2024
Top Headlines
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 targeting symptoms that current medications ...
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 like schizophrenia or ...
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 ...
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 makes the brain hear these sounds more intensely ...
Latest Headlines
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Sep. 23, 2024 — New research finds that adults with schizophrenia spectrum disorders have high rates of comorbid mental and substance use disorders and significant ...
Sep. 4, 2024 — A study mapped genes linked to schizophrenia and uncovered a mechanism that disrupts synaptic plasticity in affected individuals. The researchers ...
Aug. 20, 2024 — Researchers uncover a link between cognition and brain networks prior to psychotic break in individuals at risk of psychotic disorders like ...
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 ...
June 27, 2024 — Schizophrenia is a serious mental health disorder linked to the imbalance of chemical neurotransmitters that affect cognitive capabilities. Current ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — Nursing homes in disadvantaged communities are more likely to overmedicate residents with antipsychotics, especially homes that are understaffed, ...
Earlier Headlines
Aug. 2, 2024 — A new review article outlines the genetic, neurobiological, and environmental foundations for ...
Apr. 30, 2024 — An undergraduate student turns her honor's thesis into a peer-reviewed publication on schizophrenia ...
Apr. 11, 2024 — When the brain has trouble filtering incoming information and predicting what's likely to happen, psychosis can result, research ...
Apr. 1, 2024 — A small clinical trial found that the metabolic effects of a ketogenic diet may help stabilize the ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Oct. 9, 2023 — Scientists have developed new tools, based on AI language models, that can characterize subtle signatures in the speech of patients diagnosed with ...
Sep. 15, 2023 — Scientists are figuring out which of the 5,000 variants associated with schizophrenia have an actual causal effect in the development of the condition that affects millions of people ...
Aug. 16, 2023 — Researcher discovers possible link of mitochondrial function to the development of ...
Aug. 2, 2023 — New research has identified age-related changes in brain patterns associated with the risk for developing schizophrenia. The discovery could help clinicians identify the risk for developing mental ...
July 6, 2023 — As a psychiatric disorder with onset in adulthood, schizophrenia is thought to be triggered by some combination of environmental factors and genetics, although the exact cause is still not fully ...
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