Schizophrenia News

Using Smartphones as Research Tools

February 11th, 2013
Using Smartphones as Research ToolsThe ubiquity of the cell phone is perhaps the defining aspect of the first decade of the 21st century. Ninety percent of Americans and over 5 billion ...

Bipolar, Schizophrenia Share Similar Emotional Perception Difficulties

February 9th, 2013
Bipolar, Schizophrenia Share Similar Emotional Perception DifficultiesAlthough less severe, patients with bipolar disorder share many of the same cognitive difficulties as patients with schizophrenia — including problems with identifying ...

Ethnicity Strongly Tied to Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia

February 8th, 2013
Ethnicity Strongly Tied to Treatment Resistant SchizophreniaWhite European patients with schizophrenia are at greater risk for being treatment-resistant compared to other ethnicities, according to a new study. Researchers ...

Provigil Medication Helps Some Control Impulsivity

February 4th, 2013
Provigil Medication Helps Some Control Impulsivity New research suggests a medication originally designed to increase wakefulness may help some people reduce drinking by improving their impulse control. Poor impulse control can lead ...

Magnetic Brain Activity May Reveal Schizophrenia

February 3rd, 2013
Magnetic Brain Activity May Reveal SchizophreniaMagnetic fields produced by the brain’s natural electrical currents may be used in the future as an objective test for schizophrenia, according to new research. Schizophrenia is ...

The Link Between Schizophrenia and Heart Disease

February 2nd, 2013
The Link Between Schizophrenia and Heart DiseaseA new study further confirms the biological and genetic links between heart (or cardiovascular) disease and schizophrenia. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading ...

Gene Mutation Tied to Schizophrenia Identified

January 27th, 2013
Gene Mutation Tied to Schizophrenia IdentifiedScientists have identified a rare genetic mutation linked to schizophrenia. After studying family members with a high rate of mental illness, researchers from Johns Hopkins University ...

Decline in Teen Verbal Skills Linked to Later Psychosis

January 27th, 2013
Decline in Teen Verbal Skills Linked to Later PsychosisTeens who experience a decline in verbal skills, compared to their peers of friends, are at increased risk ...

Current Use Ups Risk of Psychosis Among Long-Term Meth Users

January 26th, 2013
Current Use Ups Risk of Psychosis Among Long-Term Meth UsersAmong long-term methamphetamine users, the risk of developing symptoms of psychosis is five times more ...

Perinatal Choline Supplement May Lower Schizophrenia Risk

January 20th, 2013
Perinatal Choline Supplement May Lower Schizophrenia RiskA new study reveals that babies who received the essential nutrient choline perinatally (before or just after birth) were far less likely ...