Cannabis use mimics cognitive weakness that can lead to schizophrenia
Researchers at the University of Bergen in Norway have found new support for their theory that cannabis use causes a temporary cognitive breakdown in non-psychotic individuals, leading to long-term psychosis. In an fMRI study ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 02, 2012 |
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Researchers identify new drug target for schizophrenia
(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine may have discovered why certain drugs to treat schizophrenia are ineffective in some patients. Published online in Nature Neuroscience, the research will p ...
Neuroscience
Aug 13, 2012 |
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Fewer suicides after antidepressive treatment for schizophrenia
(Medical Xpress) -- Antidepressive drugs reduce the mortality rate of schizophrenic patients, while treatment with bensodiazepines greatly increases it, especially as regards suicide. Giving several antipsychotics simultaneously, ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
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Shedding light on memory deficits in schizophrenic patients and healthy aged subjects
Working memory, which consists in the short-term retention and processing of information, depends on specific regions of the brain working correctly. This faculty tends to deteriorate in patients with schizophrenia, ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 23, 2012 |
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Schizophrenia: when experience doesn't help social interaction
Schizophrenia is a mental illness that seriously affects social interaction. Recent studies have shown that people with schizophrenia have difficulty in interpreting others' intentions. One of the causes has just been identified ...
Neuroscience
Dec 27, 2011 |
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Researchers develop method for advancing development of antipsychotic drugs
Researchers interested in the treatment of schizophrenia and dementia have clarified how antipsychotic drugs that target a complex of two receptors at the surface of cells in the brain work, according to a new study published ...
Medical research
Nov 23, 2011 |
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Two unique studies indentify three genetic regions associated with schizophrenia
(Medical Xpress) -- Two new independent research groups looking to find the genetic roots of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder have found evidence of variations in regions of the human genome that appear to be associated ...
Genetics
Nov 01, 2011 |
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By reprogramming skin cells into brain cells, scientists gain new insights into mental disorders
For many poorly understood mental disorders, such as schizophrenia or autism, scientists have wished they could uncover what goes wrong inside the brain before damage ensues.
Medical research
Oct 12, 2011 |
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Severely impaired schizophrenics enter dynamic cycle of recovery after cognitive therapy
Cognitive therapy has dynamically improved the most neurologically impaired, poorly functioning schizophrenic patients. For the first time, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 03, 2011 |
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