Types of Schizophrenia
The kinds of symptoms that are utilized to make a diagnosis of schizophrenia differ between affected people and may change from one year to the next within the same person…
Schizophrenia
New Pilot Program Tries to Help the Mentally Ill Quit Smoking
I was shocked when I read this statistic in Melinda’s Beck top-notch column, “Health Journal,” in the Wall Street Journal: Nearly half of all the cigarettes sold in the U.S….
Cannabis May Cause Schizophrenia-Like Brain Changes
Researchers looking at the effects of cannabis on the brain have made some interesting discoveries. The effect is similar to some of the symptoms of schizophrenia, say Dr. Matthew Jones…
Suspicious Minds: How Culture Shapes Madness
I was reading a different book when I decided to take a brief look at Suspicious Minds. It was so engaging, informative, and thoughtful, I ended up postponing the other…
Residual Schizophrenia
This subtype is diagnosed when the patient no longer displays prominent symptoms. In such cases, the schizophrenic symptoms generally have lessened in severity. Hallucinations, delusions or idiosyncratic behaviors may still…
What is Depression if not a Mental Illness?
Sometimes you might hear a person talking about mental disorders like depression or bipolar disorder without really understanding what they mean. What is depression? What is bipolar disorder? Why do…
Madness Made Plain: Henry’s Demons
Henry’s Demons is what madness is all about. Patrick Cockburn, war correspondent for The Independent in London, writes this book about another war — the war against schizophrenia within his…
Playing the Genetic Lottery
In her first novel, Playing the Genetic Lottery, Terri Morgan tells the story of Caitlin Kane, a young woman whose parents and sibling suffer from schizophrenia. The novel is written…
Schizophrenia Basics: Delusions, Hallucinations & Onset
Delusions & Hallucinations Are Common in Schizophrenia One of the most obvious kinds of impairment caused by schizophrenia involves how a person thinks. The individual can lose much of the…
Do People Inherit Schizophrenia?
One possible cause of schizophrenia — or an important contributing factor — may be heredity, or genetics. Researchers believe that some people may inherit a tendency to be at greater…
Top 10 Signs of Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness characterized by a broad range of unusual behaviors that cause profound disruption in the lives of the patients suffering from the condition — and…
The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry
The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry by UK-based journalist Jon Ronson (famous for the book-turned-movie The Men Who Stare at Goats) starts out with a mystery. Someone…
January First: A Child’s Descent into Madness and Her Father’s Struggle to Save Her
While riding in a car with her father, young Jani Schofield tells her dad, “I don’t want to go to the hospital, but I think I need to.” She is…
Schizophrenia’s Voice
I would perhaps start with explaining that everything that I say is honest and true, the reason being that some of it may be unbelievable, but then I find many…
Atypical Antipsychotics for Schizophrenia
The most recent medications typically prescribed for schizophrenia include a class of drugs called “atypical antipsychotics.” Atypical means they work in a manner that is significantly different than the previous…