Sentences with phrase «people with schizophrenia»

The protein is elevated in people with schizophrenia and other severe mental illnesses, but the study is the first to investigate how it causes such severe mental illness.

The brains of people with the schizophrenia show various abnormalities, including faulty neural connections or an imbalance of certain brain chemicals.

The findings indicate there is no safe level of alcohol use for people with schizophrenia, suggesting that clinicians should ask patients with schizophrenia about alcohol use or misuse and advise them about risks.

There is increasing evidence that computer - assisted training can help people with schizophrenia overcome some of their symptoms, with better outcomes in their daily lives.

A consortium of researchers has already analyzed 40,000 genomes from people with schizophrenia.

«People with schizophrenia show false prediction errors: they keep thinking their predictions are wrong,» he says.

People with schizophrenia who hear voices hear them frequently.

This is done by, counting how many people with schizophrenia also have specific relatives with schizophrenia.

Contrary to popular belief, people with schizophrenia do not have multiple personalities, nor are they all essentially alike — or victims of poor parenting.

Many people with schizophrenia have marked problems with motivation, failing to initiate and persist in goal - directed behavior.

Such general findings won't translate to the clinics where people with schizophrenia seek treatment.

However, there is increasing evidence that computer - assisted training and rehabilitation can help people with schizophrenia overcome some of their symptoms, with better outcomes in daily functioning and their lives.

According to the results of this psychological study, the precision with which people with schizophrenia can perceive time and process temporal sequences is seriously impaired.

«One of the best things people with schizophrenia could do is exercise and eat better,» he says.

The protein may cause people with schizophrenia to lose nerve cell connections, researchers propose.

The study included people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, major depressive and anxiety disorders.

The prototype is already helping doctors and relatives of people with schizophrenia get a better understanding of the disorder.

Similarly, 35 percent of mental health workers and 70 percent of the public considered people with schizophrenia to be dangerous.

People with schizophrenia harbor different collections of oral bacteria than those without the mental illness, according to two new studies.

It can help people with schizophrenia attend to their own personal experiences, manage symptoms, and achieve greater independence and less dependence on the mental health system.

Up to 60 per cent of people with schizophrenia use cannabis.

There are as yet no licensed pharmaceutical treatments to improve cognitive functions for people with schizophrenia.

With all that said, in one study where people with schizophrenia were supplemented with creatine, their symptoms did not improve [12].

Family therapy started as a way to help people with schizophrenia.

Nevertheless, research has shown that with proper treatment, many people with schizophrenia can experience significant, albeit rarely complete, recovery from their illness.

However, people with schizophrenia find their difficulties with learning, remembering, making decisions and processing information even more problematic than hallucinations.

It was intended to keep patients safely asleep during surgeries, but many woke up with symptoms similar to those experienced by people with schizophrenia, including hallucinations and the disorientation of feeling «dissociated» from their limbs, resulting in PCP being abandoned for clinical purposes.

Similarly, people with mental illness are more than twice as likely to smoke cigarettes as the general population, with estimated prevalence rates ranging between 45 to 88 per cent among people with schizophrenia, 58 to 90 per cent among those with bipolar disorder and 37 to 73 per cent among people with a major depressive disorder, compared to a rate of about 20 per cent in the general population.

More than 50 per cent of people with schizophrenia experience impaired insight into their illness, which is a key reason they refuse medication or don't seek treatment, says Dr. Philip Gerretsen, Clinician - Scientist in the Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute at CAMH.

Since then, a couple of studies have found that people with schizophrenia seem to have more active microglia — the immune cells of the brain.

Dr Toby Pillinger, first author of the study from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London, said: «The mortality gap between people with schizophrenia and the general population is growing, and there is a need for novel approaches to halt this trend.

But from his experience of using videoconferencing to treat people with schizophrenia in remote parts of Australia he is optimistic that many will be able to distinguish between real hallucinations and the virtual ones.

A different approach is to target the memory and concentration problems that plague people with schizophrenia.

People with schizophrenia often experience the unnerving feeling that outside forces are controlling them.

People with schizophrenia suffer hallucinations, delusions, and deteriorating social skills.

Hugh Gurling of University College London tested people with schizophrenia for mutations in the pericentriolar material 1 (PCM1) gene.

Specifically, Bleuler used «autism» to describe how people with schizophrenia tend to disengage from the outside world.

Paul Corry, Director of Public Affairs, said: «Hundreds of thousands of people with schizophrenia still aren't getting treatments like psychological therapies, even though the Government's own watchdog has said they work and are value for money.

Compared with mice with cells from healthy people as well as non-chimera mice, those whose brains had human schizophrenia cells were more afraid to explore a maze, more anxious, more antisocial, less able to feel pleasure (from sipping sugar water), worse at remembering, and more sleepless — all of which characterize people with schizophrenia, too.

Belger, the director of the UNC Neurocognition and Imaging Research Laboratory, and recent UNC graduate student Joseph Shaffer, PhD, compared brain scans from more than 100 people with schizophrenia against brain scans from people with no psychiatric diagnoses.

«In essence, patients with severe negative symptoms calculate the «cost» of potential effort versus the value of potential awards using a different equation than healthy volunteers or other people with schizophrenia who do not have severe motivational problems.

The researchers compared the whole genomes of nearly 37,000 people with schizophrenia with more than 113,000 people without the disorder, in a so - called genome - wide association study (GWAS).

The findings also explain a mystery that has puzzled psychiatrists and evolutionary geneticists alike: if people with schizophrenia have, on average, fewer children than people without the disorder, why does schizophrenia still affect so many people?

His study of historical records from a Welsh mental hospital showed that 100 years ago people with schizophrenia were no more likely to kill themselves than the general population.

These periods of psychosis may come and go unpredictably over the years, and they can be life - wrecking; 1 in 10 people with schizophrenia commits suicide.

As wider use of antipsychotics allowed people with schizophrenia to live in the community rather than a psychiatric hospital, they are often credited with bringing an end to the often inhumane asylums.

People with schizophrenia possess only one personality, but that personality has beenshattered, with severe impairments in thinking, emotion and motivation.

Ananthaswamy notes that people with schizophrenia face a twisted version of reality.

Another study, which Sasson and Pinkham published last year, found that when people with schizophrenia do take note of faces, they are more prone than people with autism or typical people to jump to the wrong conclusions if the expressions are hard to decipher.

People with schizophrenia struggle to maintain eye contact or offer appropriate emotional responses; their facial expressions tend to be impassive, and their voices tend not to carry inflection when they speak.