But previous
work on schizophrenia led his team to explore the role of childhood adversity in the development of the mental illness.
While we find stronger evidence that schizophrenia risk predicts cannabis use, rather than the other way round, it doesn't rule out a causal risk of cannabis
use on schizophrenia.
The
training on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder reviewed the characteristics of each mental illness, and available interventions for persons with either diagnosis.
Focusing on schizophrenia as a particular exemplar of this change, Luhrmann examines the evolution of psychiatry from psychoanalysis (mental illnesses are caused by emotional conflict) to a purely biomedical scheme (mental illnesses are caused by genes) to present theories, which incorporate both the biological and the social causes (and treatments) of mental illness.
«So, a variant of gene with a positive effect on intelligence, has a negative
effect on schizophrenia, body mass index or obesity.»
«Genetics researchers close
in on schizophrenia: 50 new gene regions that increase risk of developing schizophrenia.»
A recent generation of studies of postmortem brain tissue from people with schizophrenia, particularly from the laboratory of Professor David Lewis and his colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh, have shed
light on schizophrenia - related abnormalities in the interplay of the main excitatory neurons, pyramidal neurons, and a specific class of inhibitory nerve cells, called chandelier cells, in the prefrontal cortex.
New study of effects of two
genes on schizophrenia may aid in quicker diagnoses and the development of new therapies
From explaining the hurdles of studying our internal dialogue to setting the record
straight on schizophrenia and «hearing voices,» this book is a must - read for those seeking to understand the voices in their heads.
Paul Meehl was renowned for many things: his insistence on statistical and research rigor; his prescient
views on schizophrenia; his advancements in psychotherapy; his creation of one of the scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI — one of the most widely used tests of personality in clinical research and practice.)
Characterizing cognitive
heterogeneity on the schizophrenia - bipolar disorder spectrum Van Rheenen TE, Lewandowski KE, Tan EJ, Ospina LH, Ongur D, Neill E, Gurvich C, Pantelis C, Malhotra AK, Rossell SL, Burdick KE.
Crow also believes that this asymmetry is due to a certain gene, and that finding this gene could have an immense
affect on schizophrenia treatment.
«Because big genetic studies have been
done on schizophrenia and autism and other diseases, you can calculate someone's risks of developing those diseases from their genetic information and you can see if it's associated with contagious yawning,» she said.
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Although the current study
focused on schizophrenia, similar cognitive problems along with cerebellar abnormalities also are a feature of autism, Parkinson's disease, addiction, OCD, bipolar disorder, and depression.
An ever widening gap is appearing between clinical practice and the treatment prescribed in DSM - 5, the standard
work on schizophrenia, psychiatrist Jan Dirk Blom will assert in his inaugural lecture on 11 November.
A new study by University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers has found that in mice, adjusting levels of a compound called kynurenic acid can have significant
effects on schizophrenia - like behavior.
Follow - ups at age 26 revealed that the kids with hallucinations had developed full -
on schizophrenia at more than 25 times the rate of the general population.
However, previous stem cell
research on schizophrenia has focused mostly on finding those large, rare variants, similar to postmortem research.
Drs. Jentsch, London, and Ringach are researchers at UCLA who used non-human primates in their research
on schizophrenia, addiction, and visual processing.
They focused
on schizophrenia's so - called «negative» symptoms, such as problems with speech, blunted emotions, lack of motivation, and an inability to experience pleasure.
Bookstein's work
on schizophrenia is still a step ahead of mainstream thinking.
Malaspina quit her job, went to medical school, became a psychiatrist and focused her research
on schizophrenia.
Examines the impacts arising from neuroscience and mental health research over 20 - 25 years, focusing
on schizophrenia.