Psychology & Psychiatry
Learn to pay attention
(Medical Xpress) -- A new scientific theory on what we learn to pay attention to and what we learn to ignore could turn 30 years of research on its head.
Jun 8, 2011
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Schizophrenia
Psychology & Psychiatry
Extra-large synapses could be a cause of schizophrenia
Schizophrenia may be associated with the excessive formation of oversized and hyperactive synaptic connections between nerves in the brain, a mouse model and a human post-mortem study published in Science Advances by RIKEN ...
Oct 3, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Schizophrenia disrupts the brain's entire communication system, researchers say
Some 40 years since CT scans first revealed abnormalities in the brains of schizophrenia patients, international scientists say the disorder is a systemic disruption to the brain's entire communication system.
Oct 17, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Could some people with schizophrenia in poorer nations simply have a vitamin deficiency?
Four unsolved mysteries around schizophrenia have long plagued the medical community, but a new hypothesis identifying a common link between them and an almost forgotten epidemic of a disease called pellagra could have profound ...
Dec 12, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
FDA approves new drug for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder
(HealthDay)—A new antipsychotic drug to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in adults has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Sep 18, 2015
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Neuroscience
Schizophrenia and the resilience of brain functional networks
(Medical Xpress)—Neuroscience has come to view schizophrenia as a disorder of brain network organization in which the topology of nodal connections is abnormally random. The origin of such network dysconnectivity, whether ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Heavy marijuana users have abnormal brain structure and poor memory
Teens who were heavy marijuana users—smoking it daily for about three years—had abnormal changes in their brain structures related to working memory and performed poorly on memory tasks, reports a new Northwestern Medicine ...
Dec 16, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Non-severe infections can cause serious mental disorders
A new study shows that non-severe infections that do not require hospitalisation can also increase the risk of subsequently developing schizophrenia or depression.
Feb 1, 2017
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Neuroscience
Can being born blind protect people from schizophrenia?
A study carried out by The University of Western Australia has provided compelling evidence that congenital/early cortical blindness – that is when people are blind from birth or shortly after—is protective against schizophrenia.
Feb 15, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Graph convolutional network can classify schizophrenia
A graph convolutional network (GCN) approach allows classification of schizophrenia at the individual level, according to a study published online May 15 in Schizophrenia Bulletin.
Jun 20, 2022
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