World Schizophrenia Day 2024: Lesser Known Facts About The Mental Illness - 10 Points
As the WHO points out, schizophrenia causes psychosis and is associated with considerable disability and may affect all areas of life including personal, family, social, educational, and occupational functioning.
May 24, 2024, 11:12 AM IST
What Is Schizophrenia And Can It Be Cured - All About The Complex Mental Health Disorder
Schizophrenia is a complex and often misunderstood mental health disorder. Schizophrenia is a long-term brain disorder which is marked by abnormalities in thinking, feeling, seeing, and behaving.
Feb 21, 2024, 13:36 PM IST
Study Reveals Possible Targets For Treating Neuropsychiatric Diseases In Teenagers
The study states a potential target for treating neuropsychiatric illnesses like schizophrenia and autism at this critical period of development, which might influence brain circuitry throughout adulthood.
Jun 04, 2023, 19:11 PM IST
Schizophrenia's Genetic Risk Linked To Placenta Rather Than Developing Brain: Study
The study reveals that schizophrenia genes influence a critical function of the placenta to sense nutrients in the mother's bloodstream, including oxygen, and exchange nutrients based on what it finds.
May 15, 2023, 21:10 PM IST
The Impact Of Your Sleep Patterns On Schizophrenia: A Study
The importance of establishing healthy sleep habits are not just healthy for your body but your mind too. A recetn study provides an overview of how to identify the symptoms of schizophrenia through sleep patterns, read on.
Apr 15, 2023, 16:45 PM IST
Disrupted Sleep Patterns Linked To Worse Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder: Study
The study reveals that too much sleep can have negative consequences on patients' SSD symptoms.
Apr 14, 2023, 19:08 PM IST
Dysfunctional gene linked to ADHD, schizophrenia identified
Dysfunction in a gene that can lead to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression has been identified.
Apr 06, 2018, 18:17 PM IST
Nutrient supplements, along with treatment may cut schizophrenia symptoms
The findings showed that consuming four grams of Taurine -- an amino-acid, found in foods such as shellfish and turkey -- per day reduced psychotic symptoms within just 12 weeks.
Mar 23, 2018, 15:17 PM IST
Treatment for childhood abuse may help schizophrenia patients too
People suffering from schizophrenia may now possibly benefit from the effective, sensitive and tailored treatments used to treat victims of childhood abuse, researchers have claimed.
Mar 12, 2018, 18:20 PM IST
Falling IQ level in childhood may up schizophrenia risk later
However, not all children struggling at school are at risk of developing serious psychiatric disorders, the researchers said in a paper, published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry.
Feb 01, 2018, 17:37 PM IST
Schizophrenia patients may benefit from novel therapy
Despite treatment with antipsychotic medications, nearly 25 percent of people continue to experience such persecutory hallucinations and delusions.
Drug to treat schizophrenia could cure nerve disease as well
This neurodegenerative disease normally leads to a progressive paralysis of the skeletal muscles and, on average, three years after the onset of symptoms, to death.
This brain chemical is behind all unwanted thoughts
These are all key symptoms of mental illnesses such as PTSD, schizophrenia, depression, and anxiety, says study.
Nov 05, 2017, 14:34 PM IST
Nearly 80% schizophrenia risk is genetic: Study
Schizophrenia is a disorder that affects a person's ability to think, feel and behave clearly.
Oct 06, 2017, 15:37 PM IST
Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder share gene variant: Study
Schizophrenia is a primary psychotic disorder while bipolar disorder is a primary mood disorder but can also involve psychosis.
Oct 03, 2017, 17:40 PM IST
Schizophrenia patients at threefold higher risk of dying
High death rates among people with schizophrenia have also been shown in previous small studies and those from other countries such as Scandinavia and Australia.
Sep 18, 2017, 18:29 PM IST
Magnetic pulses may treat schizophrenia patients who 'hear voices'
The research presented at the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP)conference in Paris identified the area of the brain involved in the condition in some patients.
Brain's immune cells linked to Alzheimer's, schizophrenia
Microglia are a type of macrophage, white blood cells found throughout the body that can destroy pathogens or other foreign materials.
Jun 01, 2017, 23:15 PM IST
Schizophrenia: Things you might not know about this mental disorder
Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, and acts.
May 24, 2017, 11:12 AM IST
Do antipsychotics do more good than harm?
The experts concluded that, for the patients with schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders, antipsychotic medications do not have negative long-term effects on patients` outcomes or the brain.
May 07, 2017, 16:19 PM IST
