Schizophrenia is a complex mental health disorder, but scientists are learning more about what can cause it... | Genetics And ...

New research suggests that auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia may come from a brain glitch that confuses inner thoughts ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins have uncovered a surprising new way to influence brain activity by targeting a long-mysterious class of proteins linked to anxiety, schizophrenia, and movement disorders.

Glutamate levels increase in early psychosis but normalize over time, challenging established perspectives on schizophrenia progression. The study involved treatment-naive patients, isolating natural ...

A sweeping new study of psychiatric and genetic records has the potential to change treatment for millions of psychiatric ...

Credit: Getty Images Schizophrenia is a type of psychotic disorder that affects how a person thinks and interprets reality. Like schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder is also a type of psychotic ...

Schizophrenia patients have a 10 to 25-year reduced life expectancy, with a 58% higher mortality rate than the general population. Second-generation antipsychotics, particularly long-acting ...

Schizophrenia is a serious psychiatric disorder that affects how people feel, think, and behave. It impacts approximately 1% of the population, or about 3.5 million people in the United States. This ...

Hearing imaginary voices is a common but mysterious feature of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Up to 80 percent of people with these conditions experience auditory hallucinations, hearing speech or ...

Scientists who study mental disorders have long faced an inherent obstacle. When they examine a deceased person's brain, they can't tell how the brain cells functioned and interacted. And they can't ...

Summary: Researchers have identified a brain function that could transform how schizophrenia is treated—by focusing on social inference, the ability to interpret social cues and intentions. The study ...

aDepartment of Psychiatry, Creighton School of Medicine, Creighton University Education Building, Omaha, NE 68124–237, USA bDepartment of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA Older ...