A study funded by the Veterans Administration and directed by researchers at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has shown few differences in the profiles of genes that influence cognition between people with ...
Jan 22, 2020
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Excessive activity of an immune system gene previously linked to schizophrenia reproduces neural and behavioral aspects of the disease in mice, according to a new study publishing on January 14 in the open-access journal ...
Jan 14, 2020
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Advances in scanning have allowed researchers for the first time to show lower levels of a protein found in the connections between neurons in the living brains of people with schizophrenia.
Jan 14, 2020
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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and their colleagues in Germany, the U.S. and Finland have studied the safety of very long-term antipsychotic therapy for schizophrenia. According to the study, which is published ...
Jan 10, 2020
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Air pollution affects physical health, and research results now conclude that it also affects our psychological health. The study, which combines genetic data from iPSYCH with air pollution data from the Department of Environmental ...
Jan 7, 2020
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Ever since humans domesticated the dog, the faithful, obedient and protective animal has provided its owner with companionship and emotional well-being. Now, a study from Johns Hopkins Medicine suggests that being around ...
Dec 18, 2019
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Millions of people worldwide are prescribed antipsychotics every year. While these drugs are effective in treating the symptoms of schizophrenia, they can also have significant side-effects, causing weight gain, diabetes ...
Dec 18, 2019
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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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Those with a family history of schizophrenia and men with lower IQ are more likely to struggle with treatment-resistant schizophrenia than others with the mental disorder, according to a study by researchers at Karolinska ...
Nov 12, 2019
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"Mental illness is just as hereditary as height. Increased vulnerability is present as early as at birth," says Westlye, Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology and group leader at the Norwegian Centre for Mental ...
Nov 5, 2019
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