November 3, 2012 by NewsBot - No Comment
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…
October 30, 2012 by NewsBot - No Comment
Researchers have developed a series of new eye tests in order to differentiate between individuals with schizophrenia and those without it, according to a recent study published in Biological Psychiatry. A 2007 study by a Binghamton University resear…
October 27, 2012 by NewsBot - No Comment
Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma Europe Ltd (“DSPE”) (Headquarters: London, UK) today announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has confirmed that the Marketing Authorisation Application (MAA) for lurasidone hydrochloride, an atypical antipsychotic i…
October 10, 2012 by NewsBot - No Comment
A molecular pathway which may impact on the development of schizophrenia has been identified by scientists from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital while they were studying a rare genetic disorder. The researchers, who reported their finding in the O…
August 14, 2012 by NewsBot - No Comment
Around 1% of the world’s population suffers from schizophrenia. However, around 30% of patients do not respond to current drugs for treating schizophrenia. In a study published online in Nature Neuroscience, researchers of the Mount Sinai School of Me…
August 9, 2012 by NewsBot - No Comment
A new Australian study published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry provides the, so far, strongest evidence of an association between schizophrenia and immune function, suggesting that schizophrenic patients’ brains could be attacked by the immune s…
July 23, 2012 by NewsBot - No Comment
Psychosis is a generic psychiatric term for an abnormal sign or symptom that affects the mind, causing people to change the way they think, feel, perceive things, and behave. When a person suffers from psychosis they are not able to tell the differenc…
July 12, 2012 by NewsBot - No Comment
According to researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, a set of laboratory-based biomarkers have been found that can help explain brain-based abnormalities in schizophrenia…
May 30, 2012 by NewsBot - No Comment
A study featured in the journal Cell Reports has revealed the discovery of a protein that is essential to maintain behavioral flexibility. It enables people to modify their behavior to adjust to similar, yet not identical previous experiences. The fin…
May 28, 2012 by NewsBot - No Comment
Researchers have identified a protein necessary to maintain behavioral flexibility, which allows us to modify our behaviors to adjust to circumstances that are similar, but not identical, to previous experiences. Their findings, which appear in the jo…
