Sentences with phrase «schizophrenia symptoms by»
Such atypical antipsychotic medications as Clozaril (clozapine), Risperdal (risperidone) and Zyprexa (olanzapine), most of which were introduced in the 1990s, appear to ameliorate schizophrenia symptoms by affecting the function of neurotransmitters such as dopamine and serotonin, which relay chemical messages between neurons.
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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.
At Caltech, developmental neurobiologist Paul Patterson found he could induce the core symptoms of autism and schizophrenia in mice by giving their mothers the flu during pregnancy, or by arousing their immune systems in utero with an injection of foreign RNA.
She says a small, unpublished study done by her group has shown that brain training for people in the early stages of schizophrenia reduced psychotic symptoms.
Led by Brenda Penninx, PhD, of the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, the study found that patients with an early age at onset and higher symptom severity have an increased genetic risk for MDD, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
Brandon Staglin, now more than 2 decades into life with schizophrenia, suggests that reducing that stigma may make the disease easier to combat, for example by helping affected teens speak up about their symptoms.
«The cortical folding pattern itself may not be so important, but the disturbances in connections between brain regions implicated by the changes in cortical folding could provide critical clues to deficits in the integrity of brain circuits that contribute to symptoms and functional impairment in schizophrenia,» commented Dr. John Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry.
This video produced by the National Alliance on Mental Illness, tries to increase understanding of the symptoms and treatment for schizophrenia.
Although antagonism of mesolimbic dopamine D (2) receptors by neuroleptics such as haloperidol attenuates positive symptoms of schizophrenia, a significant population of «resistant» patients fails to
Whereas schizophrenia is characterized primarily by psychotic symptoms, people with schizoaffective disorder have to cope not only with psychosis but also with overlapping periods of severe mood symptoms.
schizophrenia — most people affected by schizophrenia experience a range of psychotic symptoms and commonly have difficulty organising their thoughts
SCHIZOPHRENIA Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by «positive» and «negative» symptoms.