Surprisingly, perceptual disturbances — the forerunners of hallucinations — are not predictive, even though full - blown hallucinations are common
features of schizophrenia.
Although glutamate was first hypothesized to be involved in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia in the 1980s, it was the demonstration that NMDAR antagonists, the dissociative anesthetics, could replicate the full range of psychotic, negative, cognitive, and physiologic
features of schizophrenia in normal subjects that placed the «NMDAR hypofunction hypothesis» on firm footing.
Studies have found elevated rates of autism among young people with childhood - onset schizophrenia, in which
the features of schizophrenia appear before age 13 rather than in late adolescence.
The researchers said this was important, since lack of motivation is a common
feature of schizophrenia.
In recent years, brain specialists have refined their ability to anticipate who's at highest risk of psychosis — a defining
feature of schizophrenia — identifying subtle signs in some children and more vivid precursors in late adolescence.
«These findings challenge prior studies that suggested that GABA deficits were a relatively universal
feature of schizophrenia,» said Dr. John Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry.
«Loss of motivation is a core
feature of schizophrenia that we need to investigate with increased focus,» said Dr. Gary Remington, senior scientist with the CAMH Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute who served as the senior investigator on the study team.
Indeed, language dysfunction — typified by disorganized speech or jumping from one topic to another — is
a feature of schizophrenia, and GABA is critical to speech, language and many other aspects of higher - order cognition.
Not exact matches
One controversial
feature of his program — which might more accurately be termed intervention than prevention — involves offering antipsychotic medication when only the warning signs
of schizophrenia and other psychotic illnesses, such as altered perception and paranoia, are present.
MRIs
of some people with
schizophrenia show that parts
of their brain are smaller than normal, a
feature associated with overactive synaptic pruning in adolescence.
Psychologists Noah Sasson and Amy Pinkham, who are conducting the trial, have pored over hours
of tape
featuring scenes like this one, evaluating how people with autism or
schizophrenia approach everyday interactions.
«While this study does not show that these common gene variants produce
schizophrenia per se, it elegantly suggests that these variants may contribute to declines in intelligence, a clinical
feature associated with
schizophrenia,» commented Dr. John Krystal, Editor
of Biological Psychiatry.
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Title: Synaptic transmission changes in fear memory circuits underlie key
features of an animal model
of schizophrenia Author: M. Pollard et al..
One
feature of many psychiatric diseases, including OCD, addiction, autism, and
schizophrenia, is a lack
of cognitive flexibility.
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A total
of 50 FEP and 50 chronic patients diagnosed with
schizophrenia or bipolar disorder (most recent episode manic severe with psychotic
features) and their family caregivers participated in the study.