Long-acting injectable antipsychotic medication benefits people with...
Schizophrenia, which affects 2 million to 3 million people in the U.S., causes hallucinations, delusions and disorganization. Left untreated, the disease can cause a significant loss in quality of...
View ArticleUse of antipsychotic drugs more common in boys than girls, research shows
Boys are more likely than girls to receive a prescription for antipsychotic medication regardless of age, researchers have found.
View ArticleGeorgia State University-led study identifies structural brain abnormalities...
Structural brain abnormalities in patients with schizophrenia, providing insight into how the condition may develop and respond to treatment, have been identified in an internationally collaborative...
View ArticleSelf-quantification extends to the detection of depression
A small study conducted by Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has shown that the time spent using a smart phone in conjunction with GPS location sensor data can be used to signal the...
View ArticleStudy suggests potential way to predict autism or psychosis risk in children...
Doctors and researchers have long known that children who are missing about 60 genes on a certain chromosome are at a significantly elevated risk for developing either a disorder on the autism spectrum...
View ArticleAbnormal behaviour of BDNF and DTNBP1 genes linked to underlying cause of...
Research led by scientists from Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore (Duke-NUS) has linked the abnormal behaviour of two genes (BDNF and DTNBP1) to the underlying cause of schizophrenia. These...
View ArticleMental disorders could be underlying risk factors for chronic pain in...
One in four young people have experienced chronic pain and a mental disorder. According to a new report in the Journal of Pain, the onset of pain is often preceded by mental disorders: an above-average...
View ArticleHigh or mild levels of total physical activity help prevent mental disorders
Adults in the Community of Madrid who say to perform high or mild levels of total physical activity present higher levels of mental health than those performing low levels of physical activity. This is...
View ArticleNew study lays out a case for recognizing nonsuicidal self-injury disorder
Self-injury so often occurs in private, an important reason why solid statistics are hard to come by. But researchers estimate between 10 and 40 percent of adolescents, and up to 10 percent of adults,...
View ArticleComputer algorithm may be useful in early diagnosis of schizophrenia
The opinion of a qualified professional is unlikely to be replaced by a computer algorithm for the diagnosis of schizophrenia. However, additional medical evidence based on such an algorithm might be...
View ArticleNew study compares effectiveness of clozapine with standard antipsychotics in...
In real-world settings, patients with schizophrenia whose symptoms do not respond to standard antipsychotic medications have better outcomes if they are switched to clozapine instead of another...
View ArticleOlder maternal age associated with symptoms of depression, anxiety in young...
The daughters, but not the sons, of women who give birth at age 30 or older are more likely to experience symptoms of depression as young adults, according to research published by the American...
View ArticleUNC study reveals how specific schizophrenia symptoms linked to distinct...
Schizophrenia, a severe mental disorder affecting about one in 100 people, is notoriously difficult to diagnose and treat, in large part because it manifests differently in different people. A new...
View ArticleUGA researchers identify biological markers for mental disorders
A team of researchers led by faculty at the University of Georgia has identified a number of biological markers that make it possible to classify mental disorders with greater precision. Their...
View ArticleNew book reveals that self-criticism can be mentally and physically harmful
A new book by Prof. Golan Shahar of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev reveals that self-criticism can be both mentally and physically harmful, leading to mental disorder, chronic fatigue, chronic...
View ArticleDepression may be a systemic disease, say researchers
An international team of researchers lead by the University of Granada has scientifically proven, for the first time, that depression is associated with important alterations of the oxidative stress,...
View ArticleCandida yeast infections more common in men with schizophrenia or bipolar...
In a study prompted in part by suggestions from people with mental illness, Johns Hopkins researchers found that a history of Candida yeast infections was more common in a group of men with...
View ArticleStudy finds major differences between male and female perpetrators
Women who commit deadly violence are different in many ways from male perpetrators, both in terms of the most common victims, the way in which the murder is committed, the place where it is carried out...
View ArticleKey warning signs of mental health problems in adults and children
The National Institute of Mental Health says one in five adults suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder, affecting more than 43 million people in a given year, an issue highlighted recently by the...
View ArticleRisk of suicide among OCD patients much higher than previously thought
Patients with OCD are 10 times more likely to commit suicide, contrary to what was previously thought. In a new study from Karolinska Institutet published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, is also...
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