Schizophrenia News

UTI Far More Likely After Schizophrenia Relapse

April 7th, 2013
UTI Far More Like After Schizophrenia RelapseIndividuals with schizophrenia who are experiencing a relapse are 29 times more likely than healthy individuals to develop a urinary tract infection, according to researchers at ...

Mental Illness Prevalent in Parents Who Kill Their Children

April 6th, 2013
Mental Illness Prevalent in Parents Who Kill Their Children  A new study finds that close to 40 percent of UK parents who killed their children suffered from some sort of mental illness. Researchers at The ...

Brain Scans May Reveal Early Signs of Schizophrenia

April 6th, 2013
Brain Scans May Reveal Early Signs of SchizophreniaAs much as a decade before most schizophrenia patients begin showing obvious symptoms, brain scans may be able to detect signs of the disease, according ...

Siblings of Schizophrenia Patients at Higher Risk for Depressive Symptoms

March 31st, 2013
Siblings of Schizophrenia Patients at Higher Risk for Depressive SymptomsAlthough research suggests a higher risk of psychosis in siblings of people with schizophrenia, less is known about depressive symptoms in these siblings. To investigate ...

Reporting Feelings Involves Multiple Brain Areas

March 28th, 2013
Reporting Feelings Involves Multiple Brain AreasNew research suggests that when humans communicate emotions, they are actually experiencing a synthesis of three processes that occur in separate ...

Kids With High Risk for Schizophrenia Show Abnormal Brain Function

March 25th, 2013
Kids With High Risk for Schizophrenia Show Abnormal Brain Function Emerging research suggests children at risk of developing schizophrenia have brains that function differently than those not at risk. Researchers from the University ...

People With Serious Mental Illness Can Lose Weight, Too

March 23rd, 2013
 People With Serious Mental Illness Can Lose Weight, Too  People with serious mental illnesses — such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression — can lose weight and keep it off ...

Early On, Schizophrenia Marked By Worse Cognitive Problems Than Bipolar

March 23rd, 2013
Schizophrenia Marked By Worse Cognitive Problems Early On Than BipolarAlthough patients with bipolar disorder, bipolar psychosis, and schizophrenia share several early risk factors, patients with schizophrenia often have more severe cognitive problems during ...

Ambien May Help to Improve Memory

March 13th, 2013
Ambien May Help to Improve Memory New research confirms that memory is improved during sleep and that a common sleep aid may enhance the memory consolidation process. Researchers from UC Riverside discovered sleep spindles ...

Magnetic Brain Stimulation — rTMS — Can Improve Memory in Schizophrenia

March 13th, 2013
Magnetic Brain Stimulation Improves Memory in Schizophrenia Those with schizophrenia are often functionally limited by mental or cognitive impairments. Memory, attention, IQ, and verbal and motor skills are often disrupted, and these deficits tend to ...