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Schizophrenia 'Guideline of Guidelines' Released
Source: Medscape Psychiatry & Mental Health Headlines [2013.05.16]
New "meta-guidelines" combining recommendations from several expert organizations on the management and treatment of schizophrenia have been released.
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Model Cell System Offers Insights Into Epilepsy, Schizophrenia, Other Neuropsych Disorders
Source: Autism News From Medical News Today [2013.05.06]
Medical researchers have manipulated human stem cells into producing types of brain cells known to play important roles in neurodevelopmental disorders such as epilepsy, schizophrenia and autism...
Neurons In The Nose Could Be The Key To Early, Fast, And Accurate Diagnosis Of Schizophrenia
Source: Schizophrenia News From Medical News Today [2013.05.01]
A debilitating mental illness, schizophrenia can be difficult to diagnose. Because physiological evidence confirming the disease can only be gathered from the brain during an autopsy, mental health professionals have had to rely on a battery of psychological evaluations to diagnose their patients. Now, Dr. Noam Shomron and Prof...
Schizophrenia May Be Diagnosed By Testing Nerve Cells From The Nose
Source: Schizophrenia News From Medical News Today [2013.05.01]
Collecting neurons from the nose could be a fast way to test for schizophrenia, a debilitating mental illness that is often difficult to diagnose. This was the finding of a new study led by researchers from Tel Aviv University (TAU) in Israel...
The Dual Role Of Testosterone In Schizophrenia
Source: Endocrinology News From Medical News Today [2013.04.30]
Researchers from Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) have presented new results about the role of testosterone in schizophrenia at the International Congress on Schizophrenia Research being held in Orlando, Florida. They have found that, on the one hand, testosterone could be the trigger for the onset of schizophrenia...
In The Brain High Levels Of Glutamate May Kick-Start Schizophrenia
Source: Anxiety / Stress News From Medical News Today [2013.04.22]
An excess of the brain neurotransmitter glutamate may cause a transition to psychosis in people who are at risk for schizophrenia, reports a study from investigators at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) published in the current issue of Neuron...
Scans May Reveal Pre-Schizophrenia Brain Changes
Source: MedicineNet Schizophrenia Specialty [2013.04.08]
Title: Scans May Reveal Pre-Schizophrenia Brain Changes
Category: Health News
Created: 4/5/2013 4:36:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 4/8/2013 12:00:00 AM
Urinary Tract Infections 29 Times More Likely In Schizophrenia Relapse
Source: Schizophrenia News From Medical News Today [2013.04.05]
Schizophrenia patients experiencing relapse are 29 times more likely than healthy individuals to have a urinary tract infection, researchers report. Urinary tract infections, which can cause painful and frequent urination, are common but patients hospitalized for schizophrenia are even more likely to have a UTI than healthy individuals or even others whose illness is under control, said Dr...
Much Greater Risk For Urinary Tract Infections In Schizophrenia Relapse
Source: Schizophrenia News From Medical News Today [2013.04.05]
Schizophrenia patients experiencing relapse are 29 times more likely than healthy individuals to have a urinary tract infection, researchers report. Urinary tract infections, which can cause painful and frequent urination, are common but patients hospitalized for schizophrenia are even more likely to have a UTI than healthy individuals or even others whose illness is under control, said Dr...
Early Warning Signs For Schizophrenia In Childhood
Source: Schizophrenia News From Medical News Today [2013.03.26]
Research from the University of North Carolina has shown that children at risk of developing schizophrenia have brains that function differently than those not at risk. Brain scans of children who have parents or siblings with the illness reveal a neural circuitry that is hyperactivated or stressed by tasks that peers with no family history of the illness seem to handle with ease...
Cognitive Symptoms Of Schizophrenia Likely Due To Altered Brain Activity
Source: Schizophrenia News From Medical News Today [2013.03.22]
Cognitive problems with memory and behavior experienced by individuals with schizophrenia are linked with changes in brain activity; however, it is difficult to test whether these changes are the underlying cause or consequence of these symptoms...
A Step Closer To Understanding Glutamate Abnormalities In Schizophrenia
Source: Schizophrenia News From Medical News Today [2013.03.17]
Since the 1960s, psychiatrists have been hunting for substances made by the body that might accumulate in abnormally high levels to produce the symptoms associated with schizophrenia...
An Antioxidant May Prevent Neuron Loss In Schizophrenia And Depression
Source: Bipolar News From Medical News Today [2013.03.15]
Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) deficits have been implicated in schizophrenia and depression. In schizophrenia, deficits have been particularly well-described for a subtype of GABA neuron, the parvalbumin fast-spiking interneurons. The activity of these neurons is critical for proper cognitive and emotional functioning...
Memory Improvement In Schizophrenia Using RTMS
Source: Schizophrenia News From Medical News Today [2013.03.14]
Cognitive impairments are disabling for individuals with schizophrenia, and no satisfactory treatments currently exist. These impairments affect a wide range of cognition, including memory, attention, verbal and motor skills, and IQ. They appear in the earliest stages of the disease and disrupt or even prevent normal day-to-day functioning...
Cytomegalovirus And Genes Involved In Causation Of Schizophrenia
Source: Schizophrenia News From Medical News Today [2013.03.11]
For the first time, an international team of researchers has found that a combination of a particular virus in the mother and a specific gene variant in the child increases the risk of the child developing schizophrenia Viruses and genes interact in a way that may increase the risk of developing schizophrenia significantly. This happens already in the developing foetus...
New Study Suggests Schizophrenia May Be VA Disorder Of Neurodevelopment And Accelerated Aging
Source: Schizophrenia News From Medical News Today [2013.03.08]
Many lines of evidence indicate that schizophrenia is a disorder of neurodevelopment. For example, genes implicated in the heritable risk for schizophrenia are also implicated in the development of nerve cells and their connections...
The Dramatic Differences Among People With Schizophrenia May Be Explained By A Single Gene
Source: Schizophrenia News From Medical News Today [2013.03.06]
Some of the dramatic differences seen among patients with schizophrenia may be explained by a single gene that regulates a group of other schizophrenia risk genes. These findings appear in a new imaging-genetics study from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)...
Key Role In The Development Of Schizophrenia Played By Malign Environmental Combination
Source: Schizophrenia News From Medical News Today [2013.03.05]
The interplay between an infection during pregnancy and stress in puberty plays a key role in the development of schizophrenia, as behaviourists from ETH Zurich demonstrate in a mouse model. However, there is no need to panic. Around one per cent of the population suffers from schizophrenia, a serious mental disorder that usually does not develop until adulthood and is incurable...
Pitt Study Examines Cost-Effectiveness Of Medicare Drug Plans In Schizophrenia And Bipolar Disorder
Source: Bipolar News From Medical News Today [2013.02.23]
A new study published online in the American Journal of Managed Care found that in Medicare Part D, generic drug coverage was cost-saving compared to no coverage in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, while also improving health outcomes...
The Cost-Effectiveness Of Medicare Drug Plans In Schizophrenia And Bipolar Disorder
Source: Bipolar News From Medical News Today [2013.02.23]
A new study published online in the American Journal of Managed Care found that in Medicare Part D, generic drug coverage was cost-saving compared to no coverage in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, while also improving health outcomes...
Yoga May Have Positive Effects On Major Psychiatric Disorders, Including Depression, Schizophrenia, ADHD And Sleep Complaints
Source: ADHD News From Medical News Today [2013.01.29]
Yoga has positive effects on mild depression and sleep complaints, even in the absence of drug treatments, and improves symptoms associated with schizophrenia and ADHD in patients on medication, according to a systematic review of the exercise on major clinical psychiatric disorders...
ADUSAVE (loxapine) Inhalation Powder Approved For Schizophrenia Or Bipolar Agitation
Source: Bipolar News From Medical News Today [2012.12.27]
ADASUVE (loxapine) Inhalation Powder has just been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the acute treatment of agitation resulting from schizophrenia or bipolar I disorder. They anticipate that the treatment will be available around the third quarter of 2013...
Life Expectancy For Individuals With Schizophrenia Improved By Use Of Antipsychotic Drugs
Source: Compliance News From Medical News Today [2012.11.03]
Results of a Johns Hopkins study suggest that individuals with schizophrenia are significantly more likely to live longer if they take their antipsychotic drugs on schedule, avoid extremely high doses and also regularly see a mental health professional...
Schizophrenia Risk In Kids Associated With Mothers' Gluten Antibodies
Source: Irritable-Bowel Syndrome News From Medical News Today [2012.05.16]
Children are nearly 50% more likely to develop schizophrenia later in life if their mothers are sensitive to wheat protein gluten, say researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore...
Schizophrenia Quiz: Test Your Mental Health IQ
Source: MedicineNet clozapine Specialty [2012.04.24]
Title: Schizophrenia Quiz: Test Your Mental Health IQ
Category: MedicineNet Quiz
Created: 1/26/2011 2:23:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 4/24/2012 5:23:39 PM
Schizophrenia and Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
Source: MedicineNet Electroconvulsive Therapy Specialty [2012.02.14]
Title: Schizophrenia and Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
Category: WebMD Second Source
Created: 11/3/2005 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 2/14/2012 12:00:00 AM
Schizophrenia
Source: MedicineNet clozapine Specialty [2011.11.01]
Title: Schizophrenia
Category: Diseases and Conditions
Created: 12/31/1997 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 11/1/2011 12:00:00 AM
Zyprexa in schizophrenia shown to prevent brain loss
Source: The Doctors Lounge - Psychiatry
Zyprexa (olanzapine) was found to decrease brain loss in schizophrenia patients according to the Archives of General Psychiatry.
Flu In Pregnancy Increases Child's Risk Of Bipolar Disorder
Source: Bipolar News From Medical News Today [2013.05.09]
Women who catch the flu during pregnancy may put their child at increased risk of bipolar disorder later in life, according to a new study in JAMA Psychiatry. In the past, studies have demonstrated a link between gestational influenza and schizophrenia in offspring, showing that a mother's flu during pregnancy may increase a child's risk of schizophrenia...
International Study Reveals 'Backbone' Of Mental Illness Stigma
Source: Mental Health News From Medical News Today [2013.04.15]
An international study found that despite widespread acceptance that mental illness is a disease that can be effectively treated, a common "backbone" of prejudice exists that unfairly paints people with conditions such as depression and schizophrenia as undesirable for close personal relationships and positions of authority...
$100 Million Initiative To Map Brain Announced By President Obama
Source: Schizophrenia News From Medical News Today [2013.04.04]
President Barak Obama announced on Tuesday that he will ask for $100 million in his fiscal 2014 budget next week to sponsor the first year of the "BRAIN Initiative", a bold, new 10-year research effort to advance our understanding of the human brain and uncover new ways to treat, prevent and cure brain disorders like autism, epilepsy, traumatic brain injury, schizophrenia and Alzheimer's...
Sleep Mechanism Discovered That Is Critical To Memory Consolidation
Source: Schizophrenia News From Medical News Today [2013.03.14]
A team of sleep researchers led by UC Riverside psychologist Sara C. Mednick has confirmed the mechanism that enables the brain to consolidate memory and found that a commonly prescribed sleep aid enhances the process. Those discoveries could lead to new sleep therapies that will improve memory for aging adults and those with dementia, Alzheimer's and schizophrenia...
New Gene Variant May Explain Psychotic Features In Bipolar Disorder
Source: Bipolar News From Medical News Today [2013.03.06]
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have found an explanation for why the level of kynurenic acid (KYNA) is higher in the brains of people with schizophrenia or bipolar disease with psychosis. The study, which is published in the scientific periodical Molecular Psychiatry, identifies a gene variant associated with an increased production of KYNA...
Five Major Psychiatric Disorders Share Genetic Link
Source: Schizophrenia News From Medical News Today [2013.02.28]
Five common psychiatric disorders - bipolar disorder, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism, major depressive disorder, and schizophrenia - have been found to have the same genetic risk factors. Specifically, two variations in genes play a role in the balance of calcium in brain cells and are a common factor in a few of these disorders, and may be a goal for new treatments...
Questioning The Safety And Effectiveness Of 4 Common Antipsychotic Drugs Prescribed For Older Adults
Source: Bipolar News From Medical News Today [2012.11.29]
In older adults, antipsychotic drugs are commonly prescribed off-label for a number of disorders outside of their Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved indications - schizophrenia and bipolar disorder...
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