Sentences with phrase «of schizophrenia»

In all these studies, researchers took a close look at whether there was something about the older fathers — unrelated to age — that increased the risk of schizophrenia in their children.

These negative symptoms of schizophrenia can be disabling and prevent individuals from realizing their potential.

Of the 270 offspring, 27 % had been admitted with a diagnosis of schizophrenia by the age of 52.

Researchers have found correlations between childhood behavior and the onset of schizophrenia in adulthood.

A second project seeks to improve treatment of schizophrenia.

Environmental and social factors may also be involved in the development of schizophrenia.

At present are unknown the precise causes of schizophrenia.

And timing is important, since earlier onset of schizophrenia is linked to a worse prognosis overall.

These service dogs are also particularly important for individuals suffering from severe cases of schizophrenia in that the dogs help with day to day functions that may otherwise seem impossible.

In some cases, people who do not have a family history of schizophrenia also develop the illness.

Approximately 15 percent of schizophrenia patients reported being never or rarely happy.

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 trial followed 81 people aged 13 to 25 with early signs of schizophrenia.

Five years earlier she had suffered a mental collapse; she struggled against a form of schizophrenia for most of her life.

The occurrence of antisocial behavior is not exclusively during the course of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.

The study's most novel and striking findings emerged when researchers analyzed patterns of brain activity in patients with different types of schizophrenia symptoms.

The surprise finding could have implications for our understanding of schizophrenia, a psychological disorder which often appears in early adulthood.

The study is clinically significant because the estimated lifetime incidence of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder in the groups studied is approximately 10 - 20 times what is generally observed.

With its large sample size, this study had the power to find copy number variants with large effects that occur in more than 0.1 percent of schizophrenia cases.

Results showed that a higher maternal nicotine level in the mother's blood was associated with an increased risk of schizophrenia among their offspring.

That's still difficult for schizophrenia itself, let alone side effects of schizophrenia drugs.

In addition to offering new insights into the biology of schizophrenia, this finding also provides a potential way to test the effectiveness of new interventions.

A second wave of findings has documented that immigrants to European countries are at heightened risk of schizophrenia as compared with native - born residents.

The infection theory could also explain what little we know of the genetics of schizophrenia.

Family therapy has worked well for many patients, educating both patients and their families about the nature of schizophrenia and helping them in their cooperative effort to cope with the disorder.

The other is about the end - result of schizophrenia.

The clinical symptoms and cognitive and functional deficits of schizophrenia typically begin to emerge during late adolescence and early adulthood.

Yet when one tries to get a sense of proportion by looking at the official nationwide real estate statistics, a kind of schizophrenia seems to be at work.

To get to the bottom of schizophrenia, two scientific rivals are seeking help from some unusual twins — twins who are identical in all respects but one.

In clinical practice, however, the description of schizophrenia is so broad that there is a risk that numerous patients are wrongly being diagnosed with schizophrenia.

For example, could genetic risk of schizophrenia predict its onset, severity and prognosis in youth that experiment with cannabis and other drugs?

All these traits and features, however, allow at best modest forecasts of schizophrenia's prognosis.

In people whose onset of schizophrenia occurred before age 19, the proportion was 20 percent.

If proven successful, this could mean that correcting the imbalance within the brain circuits of schizophrenia patients may bring us closer to producing a treatment.

No differences were observed in other symptom domains of schizophrenia either.

The condition of having multiple personalities was incorrectly identified as a signature of schizophrenia.

Heavy maternal nicotine exposure was associated with a 38 percent increased odds of schizophrenia.

This is important, as lack of motivation is another common facet of schizophrenia.

The film may not be a completely accurate depiction of schizophrenia, but it is disturbing enough to make a powerful impact.

The researchers assigned twenty - two participants, who had been given a diagnosis of schizophrenia, to either the cognitive training group or a control group at random.

However, the discovery may be of use for the treatment of schizophrenia.