Schizophrenia. Medical search

A severe emotional disorder of psychotic depth characteristically marked by a retreat from reality with delusion formation, HALLUCINATIONS, emotional disharmony, and regressive behavior.

Study of mental processes and behavior of schizophrenics.

A chronic form of schizophrenia characterized primarily by the presence of persecutory or grandiose delusions, often associated with hallucination.

Agents that control agitated psychotic behavior, alleviate acute psychotic states, reduce psychotic symptoms, and exert a quieting effect. They are used in SCHIZOPHRENIA; senile dementia; transient psychosis following surgery; or MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; etc. These drugs are often referred to as neuroleptics alluding to the tendency to produce neurological side effects, but not all antipsychotics are likely to produce such effects. Many of these drugs may also be effective against nausea, emesis, and pruritus.

A type of schizophrenia characterized by frequent incoherence; marked loosening of associations, or grossly disorganized behavior and flat or grossly inappropriate affect that does not meet the criteria for the catatonic type; associated features include extreme social withdrawal, grimacing, mannerisms, mirror gazing, inappropriate giggling, and other odd behavior. (Dorland, 27th ed)

An obsolete concept, historically used for childhood mental disorders thought to be a form of schizophrenia. It was in earlier versions of DSM but is now included within the broad concept of PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS.

Disorders in which there is a loss of ego boundaries or a gross impairment in reality testing with delusions or prominent hallucinations. (From DSM-IV, 1994)

A type of schizophrenia characterized by abnormality of motor behavior which may involve particular forms of stupor, rigidity, excitement or inappropriate posture.

Standardized procedures utilizing rating scales or interview schedules carried out by health personnel for evaluating the degree of mental illness.

A personality disorder in which there are oddities of thought (magical thinking, paranoid ideation, suspiciousness), perception (illusions, depersonalization), speech (digressive, vague, overelaborate), and behavior (inappropriate affect in social interactions, frequently social isolation) that are not severe enough to characterize schizophrenia.

Disturbances in mental processes related to learning, thinking, reasoning, and judgment.

The artificial language of schizophrenic patients - neologisms (words of the patient's own making with new meanings).

Tests designed to assess neurological function associated with certain behaviors. They are used in diagnosing brain dysfunction or damage and central nervous system disorders or injury.

A major affective disorder marked by severe mood swings (manic or major depressive episodes) and a tendency to remission and recurrence.

A selective blocker of DOPAMINE D2 RECEPTORS and SEROTONIN 5-HT2 RECEPTORS that acts as an atypical antipsychotic agent. It has been shown to improve both positive and negative symptoms in the treatment of SCHIZOPHRENIA.

A tricylic dibenzodiazepine, classified as an atypical antipsychotic agent. It binds several types of central nervous system receptors, and displays a unique pharmacological profile. Clozapine is a serotonin antagonist, with strong binding to 5-HT 2A/2C receptor subtype. It also displays strong affinity to several dopaminergic receptors, but shows only weak antagonism at the dopamine D2 receptor, a receptor commonly thought to modulate neuroleptic activity. Agranulocytosis is a major adverse effect associated with administration of this agent.

A scale comprising 18 symptom constructs chosen to represent relatively independent dimensions of manifest psychopathology. The initial intended use was to provide more efficient assessment of treatment response in clinical psychopharmacology research; however, the scale was readily adapted to other uses. (From Hersen, M. and Bellack, A.S., Dictionary of Behavioral Assessment Techniques, p. 87)

A false belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that persists despite the facts, and is not considered tenable by one's associates.

Subjectively experienced sensations in the absence of an appropriate stimulus, but which are regarded by the individual as real. They may be of organic origin or associated with MENTAL DISORDERS.

The rostral part of the frontal lobe, bounded by the inferior precentral fissure in humans, which receives projection fibers from the MEDIODORSAL NUCLEUS OF THE THALAMUS. The prefrontal cortex receives afferent fibers from numerous structures of the DIENCEPHALON; MESENCEPHALON; and LIMBIC SYSTEM as well as cortical afferents of visual, auditory, and somatic origin.

The part of CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM that is contained within the skull (CRANIUM). Arising from the NEURAL TUBE, the embryonic brain is comprised of three major parts including PROSENCEPHALON (the forebrain); MESENCEPHALON (the midbrain); and RHOMBENCEPHALON (the hindbrain). The developed brain consists of CEREBRUM; CEREBELLUM; and other structures in the BRAIN STEM.

Disorders in which the essential feature is a severe disturbance in mood (depression, anxiety, elation, and excitement) accompanied by psychotic symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, gross impairment in reality testing, etc.

The ability of the BRAIN to suppress neuronal responses to external sensory inputs, such as auditory and visual stimuli. Sensory filtering (or gating) allows humans to block out irrelevant, meaningless, or redundant stimuli.

Cognitive disorders including delirium, dementia, and other cognitive disorders. These may be the result of substance use, trauma, or other causes.

Non-invasive method of demonstrating internal anatomy based on the principle that atomic nuclei in a strong magnetic field absorb pulses of radiofrequency energy and emit them as radiowaves which can be reconstructed into computerized images. The concept includes proton spin tomographic techniques.

A phenyl-piperidinyl-butyrophenone that is used primarily to treat SCHIZOPHRENIA and other PSYCHOSES. It is also used in schizoaffective disorder, DELUSIONAL DISORDERS, ballism, and TOURETTE SYNDROME (a drug of choice) and occasionally as adjunctive therapy in INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY and the chorea of HUNTINGTON DISEASE. It is a potent antiemetic and is used in the treatment of intractable HICCUPS. (From AMA Drug Evaluations Annual, 1994, p279)

Adaptation of the person to the social environment. Adjustment may take place by adapting the self to the environment or by changing the environment. (From Campbell, Psychiatric Dictionary, 1996)

Studies which start with the identification of persons with a disease of interest and a control (comparison, referent) group without the disease. The relationship of an attribute to the disease is examined by comparing diseased and non-diseased persons with regard to the frequency or levels of the attribute in each group.

A latent susceptibility to disease at the genetic level, which may be activated under certain conditions.

Measurable biological (physiological, biochemical, and anatomical features), behavioral (psychometric pattern) or cognitive markers that are found more often in individuals with a disease than in the general population. Because many endophenotypes are present before the disease onset and in individuals with heritable risk for disease such as unaffected family members, they can be used to help diagnose and search for causative genes.

Imaging techniques used to colocalize sites of brain functions or physiological activity with brain structures.

A statistical technique that isolates and assesses the contributions of categorical independent variables to variation in the mean of a continuous dependent variable.

A complex involuntary response to an unexpected strong stimulus usually auditory in nature.

A group of two-ring heterocyclic compounds consisting of a benzene ring fused to a diazepine ring.

The part of the cerebral hemisphere anterior to the central sulcus, and anterior and superior to the lateral sulcus.

A component of the NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH concerned with research, overall planning, promoting, and administering mental health programs and research. It was established in 1949.

Dominance of one cerebral hemisphere over the other in cerebral functions.

Focusing on certain aspects of current experience to the exclusion of others. It is the act of heeding or taking notice or concentrating.

Lower lateral part of the cerebral hemisphere responsible for auditory, olfactory, and semantic processing. It is located inferior to the lateral fissure and anterior to the OCCIPITAL LOBE.

A technique of inputting two-dimensional images into a computer and then enhancing or analyzing the imagery into a form that is more useful to the human observer.

Remembrance of information for a few seconds to hours.

Mental activity, not predominantly perceptual, by which one apprehends some aspect of an object or situation based on past learning and experience.

One of the convolutions on the medial surface of the CEREBRAL HEMISPHERES. It surrounds the rostral part of the brain and CORPUS CALLOSUM and forms part of the LIMBIC SYSTEM.

Psychotic organic mental disorders resulting from the toxic effect of drugs and chemicals or other harmful substance.

The electric response evoked in the CEREBRAL CORTEX by ACOUSTIC STIMULATION or stimulation of the AUDITORY PATHWAYS.

Categorical classification of MENTAL DISORDERS based on criteria sets with defining features. It is produced by the American Psychiatric Association. (DSM-IV, page xxii)

The thin layer of GRAY MATTER on the surface of the CEREBRAL HEMISPHERES that develops from the TELENCEPHALON and folds into gyri and sulchi. It reaches its highest development in humans and is responsible for intellectual faculties and higher mental functions.

Cognitive disorders characterized by an impaired ability to perceive the nature of objects or concepts through use of the sense organs. These include spatial neglect syndromes, where an individual does not attend to visual, auditory, or sensory stimuli presented from one side of the body.

Enzyme that catalyzes the movement of a methyl group from S-adenosylmethionone to a catechol or a catecholamine.

The individual's objective evaluation of the external world and the ability to differentiate adequately between it and the internal world; considered to be a primary ego function.

Disturbances in registering an impression, in the retention of an acquired impression, or in the recall of an impression. Memory impairments are associated with DEMENTIA; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; ENCEPHALITIS; ALCOHOLISM (see also ALCOHOL AMNESTIC DISORDER); SCHIZOPHRENIA; and other conditions.

The time from the onset of a stimulus until a response is observed.

Intellectual or mental process whereby an organism obtains knowledge.

Groups that serve as a standard for comparison in experimental studies. They are similar in relevant characteristics to the experimental group but do not receive the experimental intervention.

Recording of electric currents developed in the brain by means of electrodes applied to the scalp, to the surface of the brain, or placed within the substance of the brain.

The perceiving of attributes, characteristics, and behaviors of one's associates or social groups.

A hallucinogen formerly used as a veterinary anesthetic, and briefly as a general anesthetic for humans. Phencyclidine is similar to KETAMINE in structure and in many of its effects. Like ketamine, it can produce a dissociative state. It exerts its pharmacological action through inhibition of NMDA receptors (RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE). As a drug of abuse, it is known as PCP and Angel Dust.

A social group consisting of parents or parent substitutes and children.

The conscious portion of the personality structure which serves to mediate between the demands of the primitive instinctual drives, (the id), of internalized parental and social prohibitions or the conscience, (the superego), and of reality.

A phenothiazine used in the treatment of PSYCHOSES. Its properties and uses are generally similar to those of CHLORPROMAZINE.

A specific pair of GROUP G CHROMOSOMES of the human chromosome classification.

Neural tracts connecting one part of the nervous system with another.

Behavioral manifestations of cerebral dominance in which there is preferential use and superior functioning of either the left or the right side, as in the preferred use of the right hand or right foot.

A single nucleotide variation in a genetic sequence that occurs at appreciable frequency in the population.

The aglycone of CYCASIN. It acts as a potent carcinogen and neurotoxin and inhibits hepatic DNA, RNA, and protein synthesis.

A subfamily of G-PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTORS that bind the neurotransmitter DOPAMINE and modulate its effects. D2-class receptor genes contain INTRONS, and the receptors inhibit ADENYLYL CYCLASES.

The age, developmental stage, or period of life at which a disease or the initial symptoms or manifestations of a disease appear in an individual.

Physiological changes that occur in bodies after death.

One of the catecholamine NEUROTRANSMITTERS in the brain. It is derived from TYROSINE and is the precursor to NOREPINEPHRINE and EPINEPHRINE. Dopamine is a major transmitter in the extrapyramidal system of the brain, and important in regulating movement. A family of receptors (RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE) mediate its action.

A psychological theory based on dimensions or categories used by a given person in describing or explaining the personality and behavior of others or of himself. The basic idea is that different people will use consistently different categories. The theory was formulated in the fifties by George Kelly. Two tests devised by him are the role construct repertory test and the repertory grid test. (From Stuart Sutherland, The International Dictionary of Psychology, 1989)

The genetic constitution of the individual, comprising the ALLELES present at each GENETIC LOCUS.

Observable changes of expression in the face in response to emotional stimuli.

Those disorders that have a disturbance in mood as their predominant feature.

Acquired or developmental cognitive disorders of AUDITORY PERCEPTION characterized by a reduced ability to perceive information contained in auditory stimuli despite intact auditory pathways. Affected individuals have difficulty with speech perception, sound localization, and comprehending the meaning of inflections of speech.

The science and art of collecting, summarizing, and analyzing data that are subject to random variation. The term is also applied to the data themselves and to the summarization of the data.

Frequency and quality of negative emotions, e.g., anger or hostility, expressed by family members or significant others, that often lead to a high relapse rate, especially in schizophrenic patients. (APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 7th ed)

A negative shift of the cortical electrical potentials that increases over time. It is associated with an anticipated response to an expected stimulus and is an electrical event indicative of a state of readiness or expectancy.

Those affective states which can be experienced and have arousing and motivational properties.

Any behavior caused by or affecting another individual, usually of the same species.

Specialized instruction for students deviating from the expected norm.

A meshlike structure composed of interconnecting nerve cells that are separated at the synaptic junction or joined to one another by cytoplasmic processes. In invertebrates, for example, the nerve net allows nerve impulses to spread over a wide area of the net because synapses can pass information in any direction.

Use of sound to elicit a response in the nervous system.

A late-appearing component of the event-related potential. P300 stands for a positive deflection in the event-related voltage potential at 300 millisecond poststimulus. Its amplitude increases with unpredictable, unlikely, or highly significant stimuli and thereby constitutes an index of mental activity. (From Campbell, Psychiatric Dictionary, 6th ed)

Persons or animals having at least one parent in common. (American College Dictionary, 3d ed)

Learning to respond verbally to a verbal stimulus cue.

Chronic mental disorders in which there has been an insidious development of a permanent and unshakeable delusional system (persecutory delusions or delusions of jealousy), accompanied by preservation of clear and orderly thinking. Emotional responses and behavior are consistent with the delusional state.

A curved elevation of GRAY MATTER extending the entire length of the floor of the TEMPORAL HORN of the LATERAL VENTRICLE (see also TEMPORAL LOBE). The hippocampus proper, subiculum, and DENTATE GYRUS constitute the hippocampal formation. Sometimes authors include the ENTORHINAL CORTEX in the hippocampal formation.

Assessment of psychological variables by the application of mathematical procedures.

An aspect of personal behavior or lifestyle, environmental exposure, or inborn or inherited characteristic, which, on the basis of epidemiologic evidence, is known to be associated with a health-related condition considered important to prevent.

Levels within a diagnostic group which are established by various measurement criteria applied to the seriousness of a patient's disorder.

Abnormal movements, including HYPERKINESIS; HYPOKINESIA; TREMOR; and DYSTONIA, associated with the use of certain medications or drugs. Muscles of the face, trunk, neck, and extremities are most commonly affected. Tardive dyskinesia refers to abnormal hyperkinetic movements of the muscles of the face, tongue, and neck associated with the use of neuroleptic agents (see ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS). (Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p1199)

The ability to attribute mental states (e.g., beliefs, desires, feelings, intentions, thoughts, etc.) to self and to others, allowing an individual to understand and infer behavior on the basis of the mental states. Difference or deficit in theory of mind is associated with ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUTISTIC DISORDER; and SCHIZOPHRENIA, etc.

A peptide factor originally identified by its ability to stimulate the phosphorylation the erbB-2 receptor (RECEPTOR, ERBB-2). It is a ligand for the erbB-3 receptor (RECEPTOR, ERBB-3) and the erbB-4 receptor. Variant forms of NEUREGULIN-1 occur through alternative splicing of its mRNA.

Psychiatric illness or diseases manifested by breakdowns in the adaptational process expressed primarily as abnormalities of thought, feeling, and behavior producing either distress or impairment of function.

The interference with or prevention of a behavioral or verbal response even though the stimulus for that response is present; in psychoanalysis the unconscious restraining of an instinctual process.

The coordination of a sensory or ideational (cognitive) process and a motor activity.

Age of the biological father.

Inability to experience pleasure due to impairment or dysfunction of normal psychological and neurobiological mechanisms. It is a symptom of many PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS (e.g., DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; and SCHIZOPHRENIA).

Training of the mentally or physically disabled in work skills so they may be returned to regular employment utilizing these skills.

Mood or emotional responses dissonant with or inappropriate to the behavior and/or stimulus.

Methods for visualizing REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW, metabolic, electrical, or other physiological activities in the CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM using various imaging modalities.

The aggregate of social and cultural institutions, forms, patterns, and processes that influence the life of an individual or community.

Disorders affecting TWINS, one or both, at any age.

The ability to learn and to deal with new situations and to deal effectively with tasks involving abstractions.

The outward appearance of the individual. It is the product of interactions between genes, and between the GENOTYPE and the environment.

The range or frequency distribution of a measurement in a population (of organisms, organs or things) that has not been selected for the presence of disease or abnormality.

The consequences of exposing the FETUS in utero to certain factors, such as NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; DRUGS; RADIATION; and other physical or chemical factors. These consequences are observed later in the offspring after BIRTH.

Special hospitals which provide care to the mentally ill patient.

A form of psychiatric treatment, based on Freudian principles, which seeks to eliminate or diminish the undesirable effects of unconscious conflicts by making the patient aware of their existence, origin, and inappropriate expression in current emotions and behavior.

The study of significant causes and processes in the development of mental illness.

Growth of habitual patterns of behavior in childhood and adolescence.

Cell-surface proteins that bind dopamine with high affinity and trigger intracellular changes influencing the behavior of cells.

A direct form of psychotherapy based on the interpretation of situations (cognitive structure of experiences) that determine how an individual feels and behaves. It is based on the premise that cognition, the process of acquiring knowledge and forming beliefs, is a primary determinant of mood and behavior. The therapy uses behavioral and verbal techniques to identify and correct negative thinking that is at the root of the aberrant behavior.

Diseases which have one or more of the following characteristics: they are permanent, leave residual disability, are caused by nonreversible pathological alteration, require special training of the patient for rehabilitation, or may be expected to require a long period of supervision, observation, or care. (Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)

Diseases of the BASAL GANGLIA including the PUTAMEN; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; claustrum; AMYGDALA; and CAUDATE NUCLEUS. DYSKINESIAS (most notably involuntary movements and alterations of the rate of movement) represent the primary clinical manifestations of these disorders. Common etiologies include CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; and CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA.

The analysis of a sequence such as a region of a chromosome, a haplotype, a gene, or an allele for its involvement in controlling the phenotype of a specific trait, metabolic pathway, or disease.

A powerful central nervous system stimulant and sympathomimetic. Amphetamine has multiple mechanisms of action including blocking uptake of adrenergics and dopamine, stimulation of release of monamines, and inhibiting monoamine oxidase. Amphetamine is also a drug of abuse and a psychotomimetic. The l- and the d,l-forms are included here. The l-form has less central nervous system activity but stronger cardiovascular effects. The d-form is DEXTROAMPHETAMINE.

A class of ionotropic glutamate receptors characterized by affinity for N-methyl-D-aspartate. NMDA receptors have an allosteric binding site for glycine which must be occupied for the channel to open efficiently and a site within the channel itself to which magnesium ions bind in a voltage-dependent manner. The positive voltage dependence of channel conductance and the high permeability of the conducting channel to calcium ions (as well as to monovalent cations) are important in excitotoxicity and neuronal plasticity.

Includes both producing and responding to words, either written or spoken.

Improving social interaction in chronic psychotic using discriminated avoidance ("nagging"): experimental analysis and generalization. (1/7917)

Three social-interaction behaviors of a withdrawn chronic schizophrenic were increased using a discriminated avoidance ("nagging") procedure. The three behaviors were: (a) voice volume loud enough so that two-thirds of his speech was intellibible at a distance of 3m; (b) duration of speech of at least 15 sec; (c) placement of hands and elbows on the armrests of the chair in which he was sitting. "Nagging" consisted of verbal prompts to improve performance when the behaviors did not meet their criteria. A combined withdrawal and multiple-baseline design was used to evaluate the effectiveness of the procedure, and the contingency was sequentially applied to each of the three behaviors in each of four different interactions to determine the degree of stimulus and response generalization. Results indicated that the contingency was the effective element in increasing the patient's appropriate performance, and that there was a high degree of stimulus generalization and a moderate degree of response generalization. After the patient's discharge from the hospital, the durability of improvement across time and setting was determined in followup sessions conducted at a day treatment center and at a residential care home. Volume and duration generalized well to the new settings, while arm placement extinguished immediately. (+info)

Effects of family history and place and season of birth on the risk of schizophrenia. (2/7917)

BACKGROUND: Although a family history of schizophrenia is the best-established risk factor for schizophrenia, environmental factors such as the place and season of birth may also be important. METHODS: Using data from the Civil Registration System in Denmark, we established a population-based cohort of 1.75 million persons whose mothers were Danish women born between 1935 and 1978. We linked this cohort to the Danish Psychiatric Central Register and identified 2669 cases of schizophrenia among cohort members and additional cases among their parents. RESULTS: The respective relative risks of schizophrenia for persons with a mother, father, or sibling who had schizophrenia were 9.31 (95 percent confidence interval, 7.24 to 11.96), 7.20 (95 percent confidence interval, 5.10 to 10.16), and 6.99 (95 percent confidence interval, 5.38 to 9.09), as compared with persons with no affected parents or siblings. The risk of schizophrenia was associated with the degree of urbanization of the place of birth (relative risk for the capital vs. rural areas, 2.40; 95 percent confidence interval, 2.13 to 2.70). The risk was also significantly associated with the season of birth; it was highest for births in February and March and lowest for births in August and September. The population attributable risk was 5.5 percent for a history of schizophrenia in a parent or sibling, 34.6 percent for urban place of birth, and 10.5 percent for the season of birth. CONCLUSIONS: Although a history of schizophrenia in a parent or sibling is associated with the highest relative risk of having the disease, the place and season of birth account for many more cases on a population basis. (+info)

Search for retroviral related DNA polymorphisms using RAPD PCR in schizophrenia. (3/7917)

Random amplification of polymorphic DNA (RAPD) is widely used to detect polymorphisms in many organisms. Individual (or strain) specific amplified bands are generated with single or pairs of primers in PCR reactions and can serve as genetic markers. We have used this method to generate a large number of reproducible bands with single primers, random and retroviral related, on 92 human DNA samples. Theoretically, RAPD PCR presents a logical approach for assessing variability among individuals. We used ten retroviral related primers (12, 20 and 22 bp) and eight random primers (10 bp) to assess individual differences in the context of testing the retroviral hypothesis for schizophrenia. Three pairs of discordant monozygotic twins, four pairs of discordant full sibs and 53 schizophrenic individuals with 25 of their unrelated matched controls were analyzed. Ten of these primers resulted in a total of approx. 850 amplified bands (65-110 bands per primer). Almost all of these bands were identical among each individual analyzed. However, the results are inconclusive with respect to the retroviral hypothesis for schizophrenia. The general lack of RAPD polymorphism in this study may argue for mechanisms other than rearrangements such as inversions, associated with the evolution of the human genome. (+info)

The size and fibre composition of the corpus callosum with respect to gender and schizophrenia: a post-mortem study. (4/7917)

In this study the cross-sectional area (in n = 14 female controls, 15 male controls, 11 female patients with schizophrenia, 15 male patients with schizophrenia) and fibre composition (in n = 11 female controls, 10 male controls, 10 female patients with schizophrenia, 10 male patients with schizophrenia) of the corpus callosum in post-mortem control and schizophrenic brains was examined. A gender x diagnosis interaction (P = 0.005) was seen in the density of axons in all regions of the corpus callosum except the posterior midbody and splenium. Amongst controls, females had greater density than males; in patients with schizophrenia this difference was reversed. A reduction in the total number of fibres in all regions of the corpus callosum except the rostrum was observed in female schizophrenic patients (P = 0.006; when controlling for brain weight, P = 0.053). A trend towards a reduced cross-sectional area of the corpus callosum was seen in schizophrenia (P = 0.098); however, this is likely to be no more than a reflection of an overall reduction in brain size. With age, all subregions of the corpus callosum except the rostrum showed a significant reduction in cross-sectional area (P = 0.018) and total fibre number (P = 0.002). These findings suggest that in schizophrenia there is a subtle and gender-dependent alteration in the forebrain commissures that may relate to the deviations in asymmetry seen in other studies, but the precise anatomical explanation remains obscure. (+info)

The neuropsychopharmacology of phencyclidine: from NMDA receptor hypofunction to the dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia. (5/7917)

Administration of noncompetitive NMDA/glutamate receptor antagonists, such as phencyclidine (PCP) and ketamine, to humans induces a broad range of schizophrenic-like symptomatology, findings that have contributed to a hypoglutamatergic hypothesis of schizophrenia. Moreover, a history of experimental investigations of the effects of these drugs in animals suggests that NMDA receptor antagonists may model some behavioral symptoms of schizophrenia in nonhuman subjects. In this review, the usefulness of PCP administration as a potential animal model of schizophrenia is considered. To support the contention that NMDA receptor antagonist administration represents a viable model of schizophrenia, the behavioral and neurobiological effects of these drugs are discussed, especially with regard to differing profiles following single-dose and long-term exposure. The neurochemical effects of NMDA receptor antagonist administration are argued to support a neurobiological hypothesis of schizophrenia, which includes pathophysiology within several neurotransmitter systems, manifested in behavioral pathology. Future directions for the application of NMDA receptor antagonist models of schizophrenia to preclinical and pathophysiological research are offered. (+info)

The use of atypical antipsychotics in the management of schizophrenia. (6/7917)

Long-term drug treatment of schizophrenia with conventional antipsychotics has limitations: an estimated quarter to one third of patients are treatment-resistant; conventional antipsychotics have only a modest impact upon negative symptoms (poverty of thought, social withdrawal and loss of affect); and adverse effects, particularly extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS). Newer, so-called atypical, antipsychotics such as olanzapine, risperidone, sertindole and clozapine (an old drug which was re-introduced in 1990) are claimed to address these limitations. Atypical agents are, at a minimum, at least as effective as conventional drugs such as haloperidol. They also cause substantially fewer extrapyramidal symptoms. However, some other adverse effects are more common than with conventional drugs. For example, clozapine carries a significant risk of serious blood disorders, for which special monitoring is mandatory; it also causes troublesome drowsiness and increased salivation more often than conventional agents. Some atypical agents cause more weight gain or QT prolongation than older agents. The choice of therapy is, therefore, not straightforward. At present, atypical agents represent an advance for patients with severe or intolerable EPS. Most published evidence exists to support the use of clozapine, which has also been shown to be effective in schizophrenia refractory to conventional agents. However, the need for compliance with blood count monitoring and its sedative properties make careful patient selection important. The extent of any additional direct benefit offered by atypical agents on negative symptoms is not yet clear. The lack of a depot formulation for atypical drugs may pose a significant practical problem. To date, only two double-blind studies in which atypical agents were compared directly have been published. Neither provides compelling evidence for the choice of one agent over another. Atypical agents are many times more expensive than conventional drugs. Although drug treatment constitutes only a small proportion of the costs of managing schizophrenia, the additional annual cost of the use of atypical agents in, say, a quarter of the likely U.K. schizophrenic population would be about 56 M pound sterling. There is only limited evidence of cost-effectiveness. Atypical antipsychotics are not currently licensed for other conditions where conventional antipsychotics are commonly used, such as behaviour disturbance or dementia in the elderly. Their dose, and place in treatment in such cases have yet to be determined. (+info)

No correlation between A(-1438)G polymorphism in 5-HT2A receptor gene promoter and the density of frontal cortical 5-HT2A receptors in schizophrenia. (7/7917)

The A(-1438)G promoter polymorphism of the 5-hydroxytryptamine 2a receptor (5-HT2AR) gene and its influence on the cortical density of 5-HT2AR was studied using brain tissue donated at autopsy from 58 schizophrenic and 64 non-schizophrenic subjects. A linkage between genotypes for the A(-1438)G and a T102C polymorphic site identified in a previous study was observed. Our data suggest no association of the A(-1438)G polymorphism with schizophrenia and no effect of the promoter genotype upon 5-HT2AR densities in either the schizophrenic or non-schizophrenic groups. (+info)

Differential effects of mental stress on plasma homovanillic acid in schizophrenia and normal controls. (8/7917)

We previously reported that mental stress by Kraepelin's arithmetic test decreases plasma homovanillic acid (pHVA) levels in psychiatrically normal healthy human subjects. The present study was undertaken to determine whether this pattern of changes in pHVA concentrations resulting from mental stress is altered in patients with schizophrenia. Fourteen male patients with schizophrenia including those under ongoing neuroleptic treatment and 14 normal male volunteers participated in the study. Following overnight fast and restricted physical activity, the subjects performed Kraepelin's arithmetic test for 30 minutes. Plasma samples were collected immediately before and after the test for measurement of pHVA levels. A significant diagnosis by Kraepelin's test effect was observed due to a decrease in pHVA levels by the Kraepelin test in control subjects but not in patients with schizophrenia. Changes in pHVA levels during the Kraepelin test positively correlated with pre-test pHVA levels in control subjects, while this correlation was not observed in patients with schizophrenia. These results may be further support for the presence of a dopamine-dependent restitutive system in the brain. The absence of response of pHVA levels to mental stress in patients with schizophrenia may indicate that the dopamine restitutive system in these patients is disrupted or already down-regulated, as previously predicted. (+info)

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F20-F29) Schizophrenia, schizotypal and delusional disorders[edit]. *(F20) Schizophrenia *(F20.0) Paranoid schizophrenia ... F23.1) Acute polymorphic psychotic disorder with symptoms of schizophrenia. *(F23.2) Acute schizophrenia-like psychotic ... F23.0) Acute polymorphic psychotic disorder without symptoms of schizophrenia. *( ...

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Schizophrenia[edit]. See also: Epigenetics of schizophrenia § Methylation of BDNF. A plethora of recent evidence suggests the ... Various studies have shown possible links between BDNF and conditions, such as depression,[67][68] schizophrenia,[69] obsessive ... BDNF alterations may play a role in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. BDNF has been found within many areas of the brain and ... "Combining serum protein concentrations to diagnose schizophrenia: a preliminary exploration". The Journal of Clinical ...

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Genetics, Expression Profiling Support GABA Deficits in Schizophrenia - Schizophrenia Research Forum, 25 June 2007. ... Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder[edit]. Substantial dysregulation of GAD mRNA expression, coupled with downregulation of ... GAD67 is a key enzyme involved in the synthesis of inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA and people with schizophrenia have been ... The mechanism underlying the decreased levels of GAD67 in people with schizophrenia remains unclear. Some have proposed that an ...

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Schizophrenia[edit]. At the other extreme, Becker describes schizophrenia as being when someone becomes so obsessed with their ...

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Schizophrenia[edit]. Anhedonia is commonly listed as one component of negative symptoms in schizophrenia.[2] Although five ... Primary relevance in schizophrenia and schizophrenia spectrum disorders[edit]. Social anhedonia is a core characteristic of ... Schizophrenia. References[edit]. *^ a b Rizvi, SJ; Pizzagalli, DA; Sproule, BA; Kennedy, SH (June 2016). "Assessing anhedonia ... The Disrupted in Schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) gene has been consistently associated with risk for, and cause of, schizophrenia- ...

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Schizophrenia[edit]. Progressive muscle relaxation technique has been used in psychiatric settings as an alternative means of ... the application of progressive muscle relaxation technique to the patients with schizophrenia is not widely used and requires ... "Progressive muscle relaxation in persons with schizophrenia: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials". Clinical ... "Effectiveness of progressive muscle relaxation training for adults diagnosed with schizophrenia: a systematic review protocol ...

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Schizophrenia[edit]. The Double Bind Theory was first articulated in relationship to schizophrenia, but Bateson and his ... a b c Bateson, G., Jackson, D. D., Haley, J. & Weakland, J., 1956, Toward a theory of schizophrenia.Behavioral Science, Vol. 1 ... 1] Schizophrenia and the Family: Double Bind Theory Revisited 1997. *^ Bateson, Gregory (April 1967). "Cybernetic Explanation ... Our approach to the problems of schizophrenia by way of a theory of levels or logical types has disclosed first that the ...

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Schizophrenia[edit]. Individuals with the diagnosis of schizophrenia can show deficits in theory of mind. Mirjam Sprong and ... "The relationship between insight and theory of mind in schizophrenia". Schizophrenia Research. 152 (1): 217-222. doi:10.1016/j. ... "Theory of mind in patients with schizophrenia: Is mentalizing delayed?". Schizophrenia Research. 137 (1-3): 224-229. doi: ... In schizophrenia[edit]. The brain regions associated with theory of mind include the superior temporal gyrus (STS), the ...

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Schizophrenia[edit]. A more prevalent condition, schizophrenia, has been associated with structural abnormalities in the brain ... "Folding of the Prefrontal Cortex in Schizophrenia: Regional Differences in Gyrification". Biological Psychiatry. 69 (10): 974- ...

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Schizophrenia[edit]. See also: Modafinil § Schizophrenia. In June 2010, it was revealed that a phase II study of armodafinil as ... "Cephalon Provides Clinical Update on Phase II Study of NUVIGIL as an Adjunctive Therapy in Adults with Schizophrenia". ... "Armodafinil as Adjunctive Therapy in Adults with Cognitive Deficits Associated with Schizophrenia". The Journal of Clinical ... an adjunctive therapy in adults with schizophrenia had failed to meet the primary endpoints, and the clinical program was ...

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Schizophrenia[edit]. Main article: Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a mental disorder distinguished by a loss of contact with ... Noll, R. (2009). The Encyclopedia of Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders. New York: Facts on File, Inc. p. 122. ISBN ... 1962). "A social and clinical study of delusions in schizophrenia". The Journal of Mental Science. 108: 747-758. doi:10.1192/ ... Delusions in schizophrenia often develop as a response to the individual attempting to explain their hallucinations.[24] ...

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Schizophrenia and subvocalization[edit]. Schizophrenics known to experience auditory hallucinations could show the result of ...

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Schizophrenia[edit]. Main article: Dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia. While there is evidence that the dopamine system is ... schizophrenia,[26] neuroleptic malignant syndrome,[28] attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD),[29] and drug and ... large doses and prolonged use can induce symptoms that resemble schizophrenia. Additionally, many antipsychotic drugs target ... involved in schizophrenia, the theory that hyperactive dopaminergic signal transduction induces the disease is controversial. ...

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Schizophrenia[edit]. Trifluoperazine is an effective antipsychotic for people with schizophrenia.[2] There is low-quality ... Trifluoperazine, sold under a number of brand names, is a typical antipsychotic primarily used to treat schizophrenia.[1] It ... There is no good evidence that trifluoperazine is more effective for schizophrenia than lower-potency antipsychotics like ... relieving or minimizing such symptoms of schizophrenia as hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thought and speech.[6] ...

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Schizophrenia[edit]. Abnormal activity in the PCC has been linked to schizophrenia, a mental disorder with common symptoms such ... "Cingulate gyrus volume and metabolism in the schizophrenia spectrum". Schizophrenia Research. 71 (2-3): 249-62. doi:10.1016/j. ... Two PET studies on patients with schizophrenia showed abnormal metabolism in the PCC. One study reports that glucose metabolism ... and hyperconnectivity of the default network in schizophrenia and in first-degree relatives of persons with schizophrenia". ...

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He recognized the roots of schizophrenia in physiological dysfunction.[16] In this dysfunction, the person with schizophrenia " ... Schizophrenia[edit]. Though logotherapy wasn't intended to deal with severe disorders, Frankl believed that logotherapy could ... "experiences himself as an object" rather than as a subject.[12]:208 Frankl suggested that a person with schizophrenia could be ... the person with schizophrenia must be led toward meaningful activity, as "even for the schizophrenic there remains that residue ...

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Schizophrenia[edit]. A 2005 systematic review of art therapy as an add on treatment for schizophrenia found unclear effects.[13 ... "Art therapy for schizophrenia or schizophrenia-like illnesses". Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 4: CD003728.pub2. doi: ...

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Schizophrenia[edit]. Main article: Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a mental disorder distinguished by a loss of contact with ... Noll, R. (2009). The Encyclopedia of Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders. New York: Facts on File, Inc. p. 122. ISBN ... "Schizophrenia Research. 86 (1): 181-188. doi:10.1016/j.schres.2006.06.018. PMID 16857346. S2CID 31993235.. ... 1962). "A social and clinical study of delusions in schizophrenia". The Journal of Mental Science. 108 (457): 747-758. doi: ...

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Schizophrenia[edit]. Main article: Schizophrenia. People with schizophrenia may have persecutory delusions.[22] These people ...

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Schizophrenia[edit]. The causes of schizophrenia are not well understood, but numerous abnormalities of brain structure have ... The neurobiology of schizophrenia". In Charney DS, Nestler EJ. Neurobiology of Mental Illness. Oxford University Press US. ISBN ... The hippocampus has been seen as central to the pathology of schizophrenia, both in the neural and physiological effects.[111] ... Haukvik, UK; Hartberg, CB; Agartz, I (23 April 2013). "Schizophrenia--what does structural MRI show?". Tidsskrift for den ...

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"Cingulate gyrus volume and metabolism in the schizophrenia spectrum". Schizophrenia Research. 71 (2-3): 249-262. doi:10.1016/j. ... but this sex difference was not found in people with schizophrenia. People with schizophrenia also had a smaller volume of ... "Schizophrenia Research. 122 (1-3): 81-84. doi:10.1016/j.schres.2010.06.014. PMC 3129334. PMID 20638248.. ... "Schizophrenia Research. 113 (2-3): 241-245. doi:10.1016/j.schres.2009.06.022. PMC 2763420. PMID 19616411.. ...

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Schizophrenia Bulletin, 13(4), 669-676. *^ a b c d Banich, M.T. (2004). Cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology (2nd Edition ... Schizophrenia[edit]. A large interest in sensory gating research is directed at improving deficits among people diagnosed with ... Schizophrenia, Sensory Gating, and Nicotinic Receptors. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 24(2):189-202. ... People with schizophrenia often have deficits in gating the neuronal response of the P50 wave.[2] Since people with ...

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Our mission is to improve the quality of life for those affected by schizophrenia and psychosis through education, support programs, public policy and research. (schizophrenia.ca)
[1] [2] Schizophrenia is defined as "a chronic mental disorder in which a person loses touch with reality ( psychosis ). (wikipedia.org)
Schizophrenia is a brain disorder classified as a psychosis, which means that it affects a person's thinking, sense of self, and perceptions. (medlineplus.gov)
Antipsychotic Drugs In schizophrenia, antipsychotic medications are proven effective in treating acute psychosis and reducing the risk of future psychotic episodes. (webmd.com)
Longitudinal volume reductions in people at high genetic risk of schizophrenia as they develop psychosis. (medscape.com)
The psychiatrist Arieti brilliantly described the process of schizophrenia as involving a series of events gradually setting the stage for the onset of the psychosis . (psychologytoday.com)
The hallmark symptom of schizophrenia is psychosis, such as experiencing auditory hallucinations (voices) and delusions (fixed false beliefs). (medscape.com)
The other symptoms can occur in other psychiatric disabilities but hallucinations and delusions are specific to schizophrenia (or other disorders with psychosis such as bipolar with psychotic features). (medhelp.org)
This unit conducts research into schizophrenia, particularly early outcomes of psychosis. (sun.ac.za)
Schizophrenia is characterised by episodes of psychosis (losing touch with reality) in between periods of blunted emotions and withdrawal. (lundbeck.com)
And since schizophrenia in children is so rare, a visit with the doctor is crucial in determining if your child has psychosis or another disorder. (wikihow.com)
Schizophrenia is a psychiatric diagnosis characterized by continuous or relapsing episodes of psychosis. (wikipedia.org)
The positive symptoms of schizophrenia are the same for any psychosis and are sometimes referred to as psychotic symptoms. (wikipedia.org)
Psychosis noted for the first time in a person who is later diagnosed with schizophrenia is referred to as a first-episode psychosis (FEP). (wikipedia.org)

Which Drugs Treat Schizophrenia? (webmd.com)
Learn about the different medications used to treat schizophrenia, their potential side effects, and how to help a loved one stick to a treatment plan. (webmd.com)
There was an association confirmed with variation in the gene that codes for a receptor for the brain chemical messenger dopamine, which is known to be the target for antipsychotic medications used to treat schizophrenia. (nih.gov)
For people with schizophrenia, a common question is, "How long is medication needed to treat schizophrenia? (psychcentral.com)
Activation of mGlu2/3 receptors as a new approach to treat schizophrenia: a randomized Phase 2 clinical trial. (scienceblogs.com)
Their findings offer hope of being able to treat schizophrenia with drugs that affect the immune system. (redorbit.com)
We would have made terrific progress if we were one day able to treat schizophrenia patients with immunotherapy, as it might then be possible to interrupt the course of the disease at an early stage of its development," says Professor Engberg. (redorbit.com)
The medications that treat schizophrenia offer just as many questions as answers about how brain functions play a part in the disorder. (howstuffworks.com)

The inability to ignore irrelevant stimuli underlies the impaired working memory and cognition often experienced by individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia, reports a new study in the current issue of Biological Psychiatry . (elsevier.com)
The common food preservative sodium benzoate improves symptoms in clozapine-resistant schizophrenia patients, according to a new study published in Biological Psychiatry . (elsevier.com)
Receptors for D-serine are long-standing targets for medication development in schizophrenia and sodium benzoate is probably the first meaningful tool that we have had to influence this target," said John Krystal, M.D., Editor of Biological Psychiatry . (elsevier.com)
Smoking during pregnancy increases the likelihood that the fetus will develop schizophrenia later in adulthood, according to a study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry. (goodtherapy.org)
People tend to think that happiness in schizophrenia is an oxymoron," said senior author Dilip V. Jeste, MD, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences. (eurekalert.org)
People with schizophrenia are clearly less happy than those in the general population at large, but this is not surprising," said lead author Barton W. Palmer, PhD, professor in the UC San Diego Department of Psychiatry. (eurekalert.org)
Game 'could help schizophrenia patients' Jump to media player Professor Barbara Sahakian from the Department of Psychiatry, at Cambridge University, explains how a new computer-based game could help improve the daily lives of people with schizophrenia. (bbc.co.uk)
In teaching psychiatry residents and social work students, the most frequent question I get when I tell them that I practice talk therapy for schizophrenia is some variant of, "How do you talk with someone who is so removed from reality? (psychologytoday.com)
The mutation affects a gene that regulates learning and behavior, which makes sense considering these cognitive abilities are often impaired in people with schizophrenia, said study researcher Jonathan Sebat, an assistant professor of psychiatry and cellular and molecular medicine at the University of California, San Diego. (livescience.com)
For example, a 2010 study in the journal Biological Psychiatry showed that the interaction of these two chemicals may lead to the development of psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia. (livescience.com)

The role of dopamine in schizophrenia from a neurobiological and evolutionary perspective: old fashioned, but still in vogue. (medicinenet.com)
A receptor for the dopamine neurotransmitter promotes growth and spread of pancreatic cancer -- and schizophrenia drugs, which block the function of this receptor, slowed tumor growth and metastatic spread in mice, according to researchers at McGill University and the German Cancer Research Center. (mcgill.ca)
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter found in the brain that plays a role in the mesolimbic pathway and the positive symptoms of schizophrenia. (news-medical.net)
The involvement of dopamine in the mechanism of schizophrenia was first introduced due to the ability of phenothiazines, a class of dopamine antagonist drugs, to reduce psychotic symptoms. (news-medical.net)
The primary advance in pharmacological treatment of schizophrenia was in 1952 with the introduction of dopamine antagonist antipsychotic drugs. (redorbit.com)
Some even went so far as to say that this proved that dopamine excess was the cause of schizophrenia, but that was a bit of a stretch. (scienceblogs.com)
According to the dominant hypothesis, schizophrenia is related to an overactive dopamine system. (redorbit.com)
Previous studies have shown that interleukin-1beta can upset the dopamine system in rats in a similar way to schizophrenia in humans. (redorbit.com)
Based on the effects of different drugs, researchers now believe the neurotransmitters dopamine and glutamate play major roles in schizophrenia. (howstuffworks.com)
Schizophrenia is associated with dopamine imbalances in the brain and defects of the frontal lobe and is caused by genetic, other biological, and psychosocial factors. (greenfacts.org)

2018. Schizophrenia Mechanisms . (news-medical.net)
2018. Schizophrenia Diagnosis . (news-medical.net)

Variations in many genes likely contribute to the risk of developing schizophrenia. (medlineplus.gov)
of genetic material in any of several chromosomes, which can affect multiple genes, are also thought to increase schizophrenia risk. (medlineplus.gov)
Brooks M. New Schizophrenia Genes Identified. (medscape.com)
Creating an effective treatment for schizophrenia requires a better understanding of its biology, of the genes that cause it. (cnn.com)
Most of the schizophrenia-linked DNA, discovered in the 2014 study, came into contact with genes known to be crucial to brain development. (cnn.com)
This confirmed past studies indicating that genes that increase the risk for schizophrenia are "most active during early fetal brain development," prior to 24 weeks gestation, explained Geschwind. (cnn.com)
Yet evidence from the study supports the view that most variants associated with schizophrenia appear to exert their effects via the turning on and off of genes rather than through coding for proteins. (nih.gov)
However, a specific gene has not been identified and it is likely that a combination of genes is likely to increase the risk of an individual developing schizophrenia. (medic8.com)
Genetic epidemiological studies suggest that individual variation in susceptibility to schizophrenia is largely genetic, reflecting alleles of moderate to small effect in multiple genes. (jci.org)
It is possible that several different genes play various parts in schizophrenia, and other factors contribute as well. (howstuffworks.com)
Data from single-gene studies are inconsistent with a hypothesis based on independence, in that autism and schizophrenia share associated genes more often than expected by chance. (pnas.org)
Affecting about 1 percent of the population, schizophrenia is known to be as much as 90 percent heritable, yet discovering how specific genes work to confer risk has proven elusive, until now. (nih.gov)
A swath of chromosome 6 encompassing several genes known to be involved in immune function emerged as the strongest signal associated with schizophrenia risk in genome-wide analyses by the NIMH-funded Psychiatric Genomics Consortium over the past several years. (nih.gov)
Until recently, researchers trying to unravel the mysterious disease searched the genomes of schizophrenia patients for flaws not present in the genes of healthy people. (scientificamerican.com)
In this study, researchers combed the genomes of 150 schizophrenia sufferers and 268 healthy individuals for never-before-seen copy number variations (CNVs)-mutations that result in large swaths of DNA encompassing multiple genes either being deleted or duplicated. (scientificamerican.com)
The flawed genes in the schizophrenia patients were overwhelmingly linked to changes in pathways responsible for communication between and within nerve cells. (scientificamerican.com)
King says the next step is to screen the 20 suspect genes to pinpoint specific defects common among large groups of schizophrenia patients. (scientificamerican.com)

Paranoid schizophrenia is the most common type of schizophrenia . (wikipedia.org)
Paranoid schizophrenia is a lifelong disease, but with proper treatment, a person with the illness can attain a higher quality of life. (wikipedia.org)
Although paranoid schizophrenia is defined by those two symptoms, it is also defined by a lack of certain symptoms (negative symptoms). (wikipedia.org)
The criteria for diagnosing paranoid schizophrenia must be present from at least one to six months. (wikipedia.org)
Paranoid schizophrenia is defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders , 4th Edition, but it was dropped from the 5th Edition . (wikipedia.org)
Paranoid schizophrenia manifests itself in an array of symptoms. (wikipedia.org)
Common symptoms for paranoid schizophrenia include auditory hallucinations (hearing voices) and paranoid delusions (believing everyone is out to cause the sufferer harm). (wikipedia.org)
One criterion for separating paranoid schizophrenia from other types is delusion. (wikipedia.org)
Some common delusions associated with paranoid schizophrenia include, "believing that the government is monitoring every move you make, or that a co-worker is poisoning your lunch. (wikipedia.org)
Another criterion present in patients with paranoid schizophrenia is auditory hallucinations, in which the person hears voices or sounds that are not really present. (wikipedia.org)
The most prominent features of disorganized schizophrenia are not delusions and hallucinations , as in paranoid schizophrenia, [5] [6] although fragmentary delusions (unsystemized and often hypochondriacal ) and hallucinations may be present. (wikipedia.org)
One form, paranoid schizophrenia, is marked by delusions that are centred around a single theme, often accompanied by hallucinations. (britannica.com)
There are different types of schizophrenia, with the most common type being paranoid schizophrenia. (medic8.com)
While schizophrenia used to be divided into different types of the disorder, like paranoid and undifferentiated forms, it is now considered to have various symptoms of one inclusive disorder. (medicinenet.com)
Can you die from paranoid schizophrenia? (answers.com)
Sometimes rarely a person with paranoid schizophrenia in a state of delusion may act out and inadvertently die e.g. voices tell them that they can jump from a building and not be harmed. (answers.com)
I do not have or take meds for paranoid # schizophrenia . (twitter.com)
These delusions in schizophrenia are often paranoid and persecutory in nature. (aacap.org)

Childhood attentional dysfunctions predict social deficits in unaffected adults at risk for schizophrenia. (springer.com)
While the suspect variation identified so far only explains about 3.5 percent of the risk for schizophrenia, these results warrant exploring whether using such data to calculate an individual's risk for developing the disorder might someday be useful in screening for preventive interventions," explained Thomas R. Insel, M.D., director of the NIH's National Institute of Mental Health, a funder of the study. (nih.gov)
A genetic test for the mutations could help to identify people at risk for schizophrenia , or those who would most likely benefit from treatment, Sebat said. (livescience.com)

Generally, men show the first signs of schizophrenia in their mid 20s and women show the first signs in their late 20s. (washington.edu)
[1] Some of the signs of schizophrenia in children are similar to those of pervasive developmental disorders, so it's important to get a proper diagnosis from a pediatrician or psychiatrist. (wikihow.com)

Some of these features are also present in other types of schizophrenia, but they are most prominent in disorganized schizophrenia. (wikipedia.org)
Are There Types of Schizophrenia? (webmd.com)

The ways that these genetic changes are related to schizophrenia are not well understood, and the genetics of this disease is an active area of research. (medlineplus.gov)
The genetic changes can also interact with environmental factors that are associated with increased schizophrenia risk, such as exposure to infections before birth or severe stress during childhood. (medlineplus.gov)
This state of affairs partly reflects the daunting genetic and neurobiological complexity of this syndrome, but also reflects the persistence of the outdated view that schizophrenia represents one or a few conditions and of reductive explanations that focus on a single gene or neurotransmitter. (mit.edu)
Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci. (medscape.com)
It is important to establish a family history of psychological disorders such as schizophrenia, as there appears to be a genetic link in the development of the condition. (news-medical.net)
Importantly, schizophrenia often runs in families, so scientists have long believed it is a genetic disorder. (cnn.com)
New research by Dr. Mark Weiser of Tel Aviv University's Sackler Faculty of Medicine and the Sheba Medical Center has revealed a genetic connection between these two autism and schizophrenia , causing an elevated risk within families. (medicalnewstoday.com)
A previous study suggested a genetic link between autism and schizophrenia and will use that idea to study mice with these genetic mutations. (medicalnewstoday.com)
The largest genomic dragnet of any psychiatric disorder to date has unmasked 108 chromosomal sites harboring inherited variations in the genetic code linked to schizophrenia , 83 of which had not been previously reported. (nih.gov)
By combining data from all available schizophrenia genetic samples, researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health powered the search for clues to the molecular basis of the disorder to a new level. (nih.gov)
The "skyline" - Manhattan plot graph of genetic variation associated with schizophrenia - has risen dramatically over the past few years, thanks to the enhanced ability to detect subtle effects of common gene variants that comes with larger sample sizes. (nih.gov)
The overlap strongly suggests that common and rare variant studies are complementary rather than antagonistic, and that mechanistic studies driven by rare genetic variation will be informative for schizophrenia," say the researchers. (nih.gov)
The development of schizophrenia has been linked to genetic responses to environmental factors. (massgeneral.org)
Today we are studying genetic factors that increase the likelihood of cigarette smoking, metabolic abnormalities and diabetes in people with schizophrenia. (massgeneral.org)
Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe mental health condition thought to result from some combination of genetic and environmental factors. (goodtherapy.org)
As discussed later, it appears that genetic and other biological factors produce a vulnerability to schizophrenia, with environmental factors contributing to different degrees in different individuals. (medicinenet.com)
Schizophrenia is considered to be the result of a complex group of genetic, psychological, and environmental risk factors. (medicinenet.com)
These findings are grounds for optimism that insight into genetic factors associated with schizophrenia will help further our understanding of this disease and contribute to the development of new ways to treat it. (jci.org)
Scientists don't know what causes schizophrenia, but most likely it develops out of both genetic and environmental factors. (howstuffworks.com)
However, differentiation between the partial overlap and diametric hypotheses using these data is precluded by limited overlap in the specific genetic markers analyzed in both autism and schizophrenia. (pnas.org)
Evidence suggests that a combination of genetic predisposition, environmental factors, and neurological differences might cause childhood schizophrenia, but more research is needed in this area. (infobarrel.com)
A new study indicates that the genetic culprits behind schizophrenia may be much less common than previously believed. (scientificamerican.com)
The likely causes of schizophrenia include genetic and environmental factors. (wikipedia.org)

Antipsychotic medications, such as clozapine (Clozaril) and haloperidol (Haldol), are usually the first port of call when treating people with schizophrenia. (medicalnewstoday.com)
Psychosocial treatments, such as cognitive behavioral therapy (to help improve behavior and thinking) and rehabilitation (to improve social interaction) are also available for patients with schizophrenia who have already been stabilized with antipsychotic medications. (medicalnewstoday.com)
Antipsychotic medications diminish the positive symptoms of schizophrenia and prevent relapses. (medscape.com)
Percentage of individuals at least 18 years of age as of the beginning of the measurement period with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder who had at least two prescription drug claims for antipsychotic medications and had a Proportion of Days Covered (PDC) of at least 0.8 for antipsychotic medications during the measurement period (12 consecutive months). (acponline.org)
While most treatment of schizophrenia involves one or more antipsychotic medications, other treatments have also proven effective and vital to helping a person with schizophrenia maintain their recovery. (psychcentral.com)
Antipsychotic medications, also known as neuroleptic medications or major tranquilizers, diminish the positive symptoms of schizophrenia and prevent relapses. (medscape.com)

This fits with a theory that viral infections in pregnancies conceived during certain seasons increase the risk of schizophrenia. (abc.net.au)
Drug abuse: taking certain types of drugs like including cannabis can increase the risk of schizophrenia. (medic8.com)

The APA also believed that the subtypes of schizophrenia should be removed because "they did not appear to help with providing better targeted treatment, or predicting treatment response. (wikipedia.org)
Early diagnosis is critical for the successful treatment of schizophrenia. (wikipedia.org)
The SRF is an independent registered charity formed in 1962 to advance the better understanding, prevention, treatment and cure for all forms of mental illness and in particular for the illness known as Schizophrenia. (google.com)
Schizophrenia treatment involves medications and therapy to reduce the risk of future psychotic episodes and improve relationships. (webmd.com)
Psychotherapy for Schizophrenia Psychotherapy, a kind of talk therapy, will likely also be a part of your schizophrenia treatment plan to help you understand and manage your symptoms. (webmd.com)
Schizophrenia - The Complete Beginners Guide To Understanding Schizophrenia Symptoms, Diagnosis And Treatment! (lulu.com)
Schizophrenia - Treatment And Recovery - The Ultimate Guide To Modern Treatments For Schizophrenia! (lulu.com)
Schizophrenia - The Absolute Beginners Guide To Schizophrenia Treatment and Recovery! (lulu.com)
When a Loved One Has Schizophrenia Giving support to a family member or friend with schizophrenia means helping him get the medical and psychological treatment he needs. (webmd.com)
Combined ECT and neuroleptic therapy in treatment-refractory schizophrenia: prediction of outcome. (medicinenet.com)
Around 50% of people with schizophrenia have received no treatment for the disorder. (medicalnewstoday.com)
Despite major advances in methodology and thousands of published studies every year, treatment outcomes in schizophrenia have not improved over the last fifty years. (mit.edu)
In this book, leading researchers consider conceptual and technical obstacles to progress in understanding schizophrenia and suggest novel strategies for advancing research and treatment. (mit.edu)
The multi-faceted and complex nature of schizophrenia makes an ideal topic for the distinctive Ernst Strüngmann Forum 'treatment. (mit.edu)
Modulation of NMDA receptor function as a treatment for schizophrenia. (medscape.com)
This would explain the ununiformed nature of the pathophysiology of the condition, the numerous proposed mechanisms and variable efficacy of the drugs used in the treatment of schizophrenia. (news-medical.net)
Schizophrenia has been recognized only over the past 100 years as a separate illness with its own unique pattern of onset, symptomatology, course, and treatment. (springer.com)
Can this app change schizophrenia treatment? (cnn.com)
But an estimated 40-70 percent of patients with refractory schizophrenia fail to improve even with clozapine, referred to as "clozapine-resistant", exhausting all potential options for treatment. (elsevier.com)
The 60 patients with schizophrenia included in the study were all taking clozapine, and received a placebo or sodium benzoate as an add-on treatment for six weeks. (elsevier.com)
Although more studies are needed to learn how sodium benzoate enhances clozapine treatment in these patients, Dr. Krystal says that "this study highlights the importance for schizophrenia treatment of understanding the molecular switches that can be thrown to normalize brain circuit function. (elsevier.com)
At the Mass General Schizophrenia Program, many of our researchers are clinicians actively involved in the treatment of schizophrenia patients. (massgeneral.org)
One objective of schizophrenia treatment is to improve patients' cognition and motivation-and then apply these improvements to their everyday lives. (massgeneral.org)
Conventional drug treatment for schizophrenia is moderately effective. (empowher.com)
Untreated schizophrenia is a very dangerous disease for which there is effective treatment, and for this reason it is not ethical to perform studies that compare a hypothetical new treatment against placebo. (empowher.com)
Therefore, studies of natural treatments for schizophrenia have looked at their potential benefit for enhancing the effects of standard treatment (or minimizing its side effects). (empowher.com)
If you develop symptoms and think you may have schizophrenia you should see your GP as soon as possible, as the earlier the condition is attended to the higher the chance of successful treatment. (medic8.com)
In addition to providing treatment that is appropriate to the diagnosis, practitioners attempt to determine the presence of other mental illnesses that may co-occur with schizophrenia. (medicinenet.com)
Psychosocial interventions for schizophrenia include education of family members, assertive community treatment (ACT), substance-abuse treatment, social-skills training, supported employment, cognitive behavioral therapy, and weight management . (medicinenet.com)
LY2140023: Progress in Schizophrenia Treatment? (scienceblogs.com)
Dr. Amador's research on poor insight was inspired by his attempts to help his brother Henry, who developed schizophrenia, accept treatment. (audible.com)
Meet Aisha and learn about her journey with schizophrenia and treatment at the STEP Clinic of Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC. (upmc.com)
Do not wait to get treatment for schizophrenia. (wikihow.com)
However, recent research has demonstrated that a psychotherapy-focused treatment of schizophrenia (in combination with low doses of antipsychotic medication ) is superior to the standard medication-driven treatment (Kane et al. (psychologytoday.com)
Thus, the countertransference -how the therapist comes to relate to the patient-is the single most important tool in the analytic treatment of schizophrenia. (psychologytoday.com)
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) removed schizophrenia subtypes from the DSM-5 because they did not appear to be helpful for providing better-targeted treatment or predicting treatment response. (medscape.com)
Treatment of schizophrenia requires an integration of medical, psychological, and psychosocial inputs. (medscape.com)
Treatment helps relieve many symptoms of schizophrenia, but most people who have the disorder cope with symptoms throughout their lives. (athealth.com)
Catatonia is rare today, but it was more common when treatment for schizophrenia was not available. (athealth.com)
Interest area: longitudinal treatment outcomes in early onset schizophrenia and family support. (sun.ac.za)
The symptoms of schizophrenia generally can be controlled with treatment and, in more than 50 percent of individuals given access to continuous schizophrenia treatment and rehabilitation over many years, recovery is often possible. (healthyplace.com)
Because antipsychotic medication appears to be an effective treatment of reducing symptoms in schizophrenia, there is almost certainly a neurological component to the illness. (infobarrel.com)
In this section, you will find more information about the causes, symptoms, and treatment options for schizophrenia. (cmha.ca)
No matter how someone experiences schizophrenia, researchers agree that early treatment can help reduce the impact of episodes in the future. (cmha.ca)
6 However, schizophrenia patients also have restricted access to somatic care, and studies show under-treatment of CVD risk factors. (lundbeck.com)
Schizophrenia requires long-term treatment. (lundbeck.com)
Schizophrenia requires treatment. (lundbeck.com)
With appropriate treatment it's possible to substantially reduce the symptoms associated with schizophrenia, and to recognize the risk factors or warning signs of a pending relapse. (lundbeck.com)
The discovery has implications for both diagnosis and treatment of the 2.4 million people in the United States with schizophrenia. (livescience.com)
Schizophrenia Bulletin is a peer-reviewed medical journal which covers research relating to the etiology and treatment of schizophrenia. (wikipedia.org)

Researchers examined 6,000 Israeli patients' siblings who were diagnosed and hospitalized with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or depression. (newsweek.com)
[4] This helps to differentiate schizophrenia from other mental disorders, such as bipolar disorder . (wikipedia.org)
Psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia are different from mood disorders, including depression and bipolar disorder , which primarily affect emotions. (medlineplus.gov)
A Loss-of-Function Variant in a Minor Isoform of ANK3 Protects Against Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia . (nih.gov)
ANK3 gene expression in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia . (nih.gov)
At first glance, it seems like schizophrenia and autism are completely different , but a new discovery shows us that they have similar roots, linked with other mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder. (medicalnewstoday.com)
And to be sure there wasn't an effect just from having a mental illness, the researchers studied schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and severe depression. (abc.net.au)
Women who already had schizophrenia or bipolar disorder did have a higher rate of complications like bleeding and premature delivery, but these were almost certainly due to the social circumstances of the women. (abc.net.au)
If a woman's destiny was to develop schizophrenia, but hadn't yet, she had a greater risk of having a low birthweight baby, and it didn't happen in bipolar disorder. (abc.net.au)
Like tens of millions of others diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, Henry did not believe he was ill. (audible.com)
as you can see, all sorts of nurses have been talking about mental illness, and the membership has been gracious and even curious about what it's like to live with schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, depression, bipolar etc. (allnurses.com)
Alternative models for the genomic and etiological relationships of autism with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. (pnas.org)
The symptoms of Schizoaffective Disorder look like a mixture of two kinds of major mental illnesses - mood disorders (depression, bipolar disorder) and schizophrenia. (healthyplace.com)

Electroconvulsive Therapy and Schizophrenia Doctors use electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) to treat severe depression. (webmd.com)
As defined by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), schizophrenia is a severe, disabling brain disorder. (medicalnewstoday.com)
Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe and disabling mental disorder. (cnn.com)
Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, disabling brain disease. (empowher.com)
Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, debilitating mental illness that affects about 1% of the population -- more than 2 million people in the United States alone. (medicinenet.com)
Sometimes colloquially but inaccurately referred to as split personality disorder , schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, debilitating mental illness. (medicinenet.com)
Schizophrenia is among the most severe forms of mental illness, yet some people with the disease are as happy as those in good physical and mental health according to a study led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. (eurekalert.org)
Following an order issued yesterday by Pakistani authorities, Khizar Hiyat, a former police officer who suffers from severe schizophrenia, is set to be executed in 72 hours. (ekklesia.co.uk)
People with severe conditions like schizophrenia are waiting an average of 14 weeks for an assessment, leaving some feeling suicidal. (ekklesia.co.uk)
We used a comic strip description task to elicit language samples from 30 participants with schizophrenia (SZ), 15 with moderate or severe FTD (SZ + FTD), and 15 minimal or no FTD (SZ−FTD), as well as 15 first-degree relatives of people with SZ (FDRs) and 15 neurotypical controls (NC). (nature.com)
Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disorder that has affected people throughout history. (athealth.com)
Schizophrenia is a common form of severe mental illness that carries a notable 'stigma' and is often misunderstood. (lundbeck.com)
Schizophrenia is one of Lundbeck's focus disease areas, and is a chronic, severe and disabling psychiatric disorder. (lundbeck.com)
However, children with schizophrenia typically have severe language delays. (wikihow.com)
Long-term hospitalization is used on a small number of people with severe schizophrenia. (wikipedia.org)

An earlier hearing had ruled that schizophrenia was not a permanent mental disorder. (newsweek.com)
He describes schizophrenia as a disease of thought disorder and inappropriate emotional attributes. (youtube.com)
The disorder is listed in the 10th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, or ICD-10 , where it is called hebephrenic schizophrenia . (wikipedia.org)
Schizophrenia is not a split personality, a rare and very different disorder. (google.com)
Individuals who exhibit strong features of both schizophrenia and mood disorders are often given the diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder . (medlineplus.gov)
Schizophrenia is a common disorder that occurs all over the world. (medlineplus.gov)
however, most people with a close relative who has schizophrenia will not develop the disorder themselves. (medlineplus.gov)
BONUS INCLUDED) Schizophrenia is a mental disorder wrought with misunderstanding and misinformation. (lulu.com)
Prior to the development of the full-blown disorder, people who go on to develop schizophrenia often exhibit more subtle and/or less specific symptoms, also called prodromal symptoms. (medicinenet.com)
Our assumption was that understanding the impairments in the component processes of working memory - the ability to hold and manipulate information in the mind - among patients with schizophrenia could be fundamental to understanding not only cognitive function in the disorder, which is widespread and has debilitating consequences, but also the disorder itself," Eich explained. (elsevier.com)
While there are difficulties inherent in the assessment of schizophrenia, accurate diagnosis has important implications for pharmacological and psychosocial intervention for the disorder. (springer.com)
A 2014 study of people with the psychiatric disorder provided real evidence of this: The researchers found 108 distinct locations on the human genome linked to schizophrenia. (cnn.com)
Prior to the new study, schizophrenia genome-wide studies had identified only about 30 common gene variants associated with the disorder. (nih.gov)
Although schizophrenia affects men and women with equal frequency, the disorder often appears earlier in men. (empowher.com)
The National Survey of Psychiatric Morbidity in 2000 showed that 5 out of every 1000 people were diagnosed with a psychotic disorder, while other figures suggest that around 1 in 100 people may experience symptoms associated with schizophrenia at some point in their lives. (medic8.com)
People with schizophrenia are at increased risk of having a number of medical problems, other mental health conditions, committing suicide or engaging in other self-harm, and otherwise dying earlier than people without this disorder. (medicinenet.com)
Schizophrenia has become a recognized psychotic disorder in modern day psychology and research has shown that one in 100 people suffer from this disease in some proportion or degree. (audible.com)
Data from CNVs provides statistical support for the hypothesis that autism and schizophrenia are associated with reciprocal variants, such that at four loci, deletions predispose to one disorder, whereas duplications predispose to the other. (pnas.org)
Perhaps the most enduring, and harmful, myth about schizophrenia is that the symptoms of the disorder-most notably, the hallucinations and delusions-are meaningless and random and thus uninterpretable phenomena. (psychologytoday.com)
Since schizophrenia was first described over a century ago, its underlying biology has been a black box, in part because it has been virtually impossible to model the disorder in cells or animals," said McCarroll. (nih.gov)
Schizophrenia is a brain disorder that affects how people think, feel, and perceive. (medscape.com)
Schizophrenia is a brain disorder that probably comprises multiple etiologies. (medscape.com)
There are books that could help you understand it more than an individual person here but being that I have made a full recovery from schizoaffective disorder (read through my posts) which is schizophrenia with a mood disorder I'll explain it as best I can. (medhelp.org)
Schizophrenia is a devastating brain disorder that affects approximately 2.2 million American adults. (healthyplace.com)
While there is no cure for Schizophrenia or Schizoaffective Disorder, they are highly treatable and manageable illnesses. (healthyplace.com)
from symptoms and causes to treatments and dealing with the stigma attached to Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder. (healthyplace.com)
And if you're looking for an online Schizophrenia or Schizoaffective Disorder support group, we hope you'll join the HealthyPlace.com Support Network (our social network). (healthyplace.com)
Diagnosing schizophrenia in children is difficult, because it is often mistaken for other illness like Autism and Bi-polar disorder. (infobarrel.com)
Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder, often long-lasting, which may lead to marked changes in a person's perception of reality. (lundbeck.com)
What we prove is that, collectively, there is a threefold effect in schizophrenia and a fourfold effect in the childhood-onset disorder,' says Mary-Claire King, a geneticist at the University of Washington School of Medicine and another co-author, referring to the incidence of these rare variants between the groups. (scientificamerican.com)
Many people with schizophrenia have other mental disorders that often includes an anxiety disorder such as panic disorder, an obsessive-compulsive disorder, or a substance use disorder. (wikipedia.org)
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by significant alterations in perception, thoughts, mood, and behavior. (wikipedia.org)

Retrieved on February 17, 2020 from https://www.news-medical.net/health/Schizophrenia-Diagnosis.aspx. (news-medical.net)

Schizophrenia affects men and women in equal numbers, although on average, men appear to develop schizophrenia earlier than women. (washington.edu)
Most people develop schizophrenia before 30 years of age with some having their first episode in the teenage years. (aacap.org)

Within these pages you will find information on: What schizophrenia really is versus what society believes it is, The Causes of schizophrenia, The Mechanisms of Schizophrenia, Diagnosis and Treatments. (lulu.com)
Such treatments can be effective for the majority of people with schizophrenia, allowing them to function more normally in day-to-day life. (medicalnewstoday.com)
To date, progress has been painfully slow in revealing pathogenic mechanisms of schizophrenia and developing effective treatments for many of its devastating symptoms. (mit.edu)
The goal of the Mass General Schizophrenia research team is to better understand the causes and symptoms of schizophrenia in order to develop new and more effective treatments. (massgeneral.org)
Members of the Mass General faculty pioneered successful treatments to help people with schizophrenia stop smoking. (massgeneral.org)
No natural treatments have been studied as sole therapy for schizophrenia. (empowher.com)
There are a number of various schizophrenia treatments. (medicinenet.com)
The causes of schizophrenia are largely unknown, and this hinders the development of effective treatments. (redorbit.com)
New clues to schizophrenia cause Jump to media player A Cardiff University professor says new insights into the biological causes of schizophrenia could lead to new treatments. (bbc.co.uk)
With few exceptions-such as Harry Stack Sullivan and Silvano Arieti (see my article on Arieti here )-psychiatrists have historically avoided undertaking the psychotherapy of schizophrenia, focusing instead on managing the symptoms with neuroleptic medications and other physical treatments. (psychologytoday.com)
In-depth overview of schizophrenia including symptoms, causes, treatments of schizophrenia. (healthyplace.com)
Though researchers and mental health professionals don't know what causes schizophrenia, they have developed treatments that allow most persons with schizophrenia to work, live with their families and enjoy friends. (healthyplace.com)

The researchers recruited patients with schizophrenia and a control group of healthy volunteers to complete an item recognition task in the laboratory while undergoing a functional magnetic resonance imaging scan. (elsevier.com)
The underlying mechanisms of schizophrenia are not entirely understood in their complexity by medical researchers at this point in time. (news-medical.net)
Researchers used three data sets to measure the familial association between autism and schizophrenia. (medicalnewstoday.com)
We determined that it would be of value to bring together schizophrenia researchers and those doing basic studies of the development of the brain. (springer.com)
Researchers in Western Australia followed women with mental illnesses through pregnancy and compared them to pregnant women without mental illness to see what happens during pregnancy and how that may influence the chances of their children developing schizophrenia. (abc.net.au)
Learn more about ongoing research and clinical studies being conducted by researchers in the Schizophrenia Program at Mass General. (massgeneral.org)
Researchers aren't sure what causes schizophrenia. (empowher.com)
Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have discovered that patients with recent-onset schizophrenia have higher levels of inflammatory substances in their brains. (redorbit.com)
A computer-based brain-training game could improve the daily lives of people with schizophrenia, according to University of Cambridge researchers. (bbc.co.uk)
Versions of a gene linked to schizophrenia may trigger runaway pruning of the teenage brain's still-maturing communications infrastructure, NIH-funded researchers have discovered. (nih.gov)
The researchers dug deeply into the complexities of how such structural variation relates to the gene's level of expression and how that, in turn, might relate to schizophrenia. (nih.gov)
At that international meeting, some of the most esteemed researchers in the field surveyed our current under- standing of schizophrenia. (springer.com)
Nov. 20 -- WEDNESDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Elevated brain levels of a compound called kynurenic acid are associated with problem-solving deficits in people with schizophrenia, according to U.S. researchers. (go.com)
Drugs that suppress kynurenic acid might be used in conjunction with antipsychotic drugs to treat cognitive impairments, the most resistant symptoms in schizophrenia patients, the researchers said. (go.com)
Researchers are developing more effective medications and using new research tools to understand the causes of schizophrenia. (athealth.com)

The predominant clinical features seen in the catatonic subtype of schizophrenia involve disturbances in a person's movement. (psychcentral.com)
Schizophrenia can be contrasted to psychiatric illnesses such as major depression, manic-depression, and anxiety disorders that were described long ago by Hippocrates as common behavioral disturbances. (springer.com)
It has suggested the possiblity that disturbances of brain development during gestation may contribute to the risk of adult schizophrenia. (springer.com)
Some patients with schizophrenia have motor disturbances before exposure to antipsychotic agents. (medscape.com)

This is not always the case, but an individual with a family history of schizophrenia is more likely to be affected. (news-medical.net)
Having a family history of schizophrenia. (wikihow.com)

Clare Wilson's article on drug use and schizophrenia (8 February, p 32) examines the benefits of talking therapy over medication. (newscientist.com)
There is evidence to suggest that neurotransmitters may be linked to schizophrenia, as taking medication that changes the levels of neurotransmitters has been found to reduce symptoms. (medic8.com)
From my past college experience you cannot actually die from the condition but if someone who doesnt have the condition under control by having a doctor they are working with or medication, then the person may not be mentally stable enough to handle the effects, in which case people who have died in the past with a history of schizophrenia, usually passed due to suicide. (answers.com)

Schizophrenia, a disease of the brain, is one of the most disabling and emotionally devastating illnesses known to man. (google.com)
Schizophrenia is a serious brain illness. (medlineplus.gov)
Some people with schizophrenia have mild impairment of intellectual function, but schizophrenia is not associated with the same types of physical changes in the brain that occur in people with dementias such as Alzheimer disease . (medlineplus.gov)
People who have a relationship with someone who is successfully treated appreciate the reality that people living with a schizophrenia brain illness are delightful, wise, thoughtful individuals with the same goals and aspirations that others not diagnosed have," Linda Stalters, executive director of the Schizophrenia and Related Disorders Alliance of America (SARDAA), told Medical News Today . (medicalnewstoday.com)
Schizophrenia has a tremendous cost to society, estimated at $32.5 billion per year in the US (statistic from Brain Facts, Society for Neuroscience, 2002). (washington.edu)
The picture below shows magnetic resonance image (MRI) brain scans of a pair of twins: one with schizophrenia, one without schizophrenia. (washington.edu)
Many years ago, the pioneering scientist Patricia Goldman-Rakic and her colleagues showed that the inhibition of regional prefrontal cortical activity was dependent upon the integrity of the GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) system in the brain, a chemical system with abnormalities associated with schizophrenia. (elsevier.com)
Meta-analysis of regional brain volumes in schizophrenia. (medscape.com)
Are there progressive brain changes in schizophrenia? (medscape.com)
This came about due to the low number of glutamate receptor observed in the brain of people that had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. (news-medical.net)
There is also some evidence that the structure of the brain may influence the likelihood of an individual of suffering from schizophrenia. (news-medical.net)
The functional abnormalities of the brain in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia have been observed with the use of positron emission tomography (PET) scans. (news-medical.net)
Meaning of structural changes in the brain in schizophrenia. (springer.com)
And because schizophrenia is believed to result from abnormal development of the cerebral cortex, they looked at brain cells from this region. (cnn.com)
Sodium benzoate works by preventing the breakdown of D-serine, a brain chemical that plays an important role in signaling that is disrupted in the brains of people with schizophrenia. (elsevier.com)
There will be other results from this study but so far they indicate that schizophrenia is more than a brain disease. (abc.net.au)
Some people with schizophrenia lose brain volume. (massgeneral.org)
Development of the brain: studies have shown that the development of the brain is slightly different in people who have schizophrenia and research has established differences in the structure of the brain or small differences in the brain cells of a person with schizophrenia. (medic8.com)
Activation of brain interleukin-1Ã ² in schizophrenia. (redorbit.com)
Scientists also look for answers by studying the chemical makeup of the brain for people with schizophrenia. (howstuffworks.com)
Finally, data from studies of head and brain size phenotypes indicate that autism is commonly associated with developmentally-enhanced brain growth, whereas schizophrenia is characterized, on average, by reduced brain growth. (pnas.org)
These convergent lines of evidence appear most compatible with the hypothesis that autism and schizophrenia represent diametric conditions with regard to their genomic underpinnings, neurodevelopmental bases, and phenotypic manifestations as reflecting under-development versus dysregulated over-development of the human social brain. (pnas.org)
Schizophrenia and autism have also been considered as diametric, or opposite sets of conditions (model 1C) ( Fig. 1 C ) along a spectrum of social-brain phenotypes from hypodevelopment in autism, to normality, to hyperdevelopment in schizophrenia ( 5 ). (pnas.org)
Schizophrenia is caused by an imbalance in the chemicals that send signals to the brain, leading to the perception (seeing/hearing/thinking) of things that are not real. (lundbeck.com)
People who had one particular mutation, in a gene called the VIPR2, which regulates brain neuron development and activity, were 14 times more likely to have schizophrenia than people without the mutation, the study said. (livescience.com)
A mutation on a gene that regulates brain development is associated with a 14-fold increased risk of schizophrenia. (livescience.com)

A new technology puts a face to the disembodied voices that haunt schizophrenia patients who experience auditory hallucinations. (newsweek.com)
Over the years, donations and grants have been made to help patients suffering from Schizophrenia and for pure research, the latter by the funding of research scientists directly, or by the provision of equipment. (google.com)
A study of eye movements in schizophrenia patients provides new evidence of impaired reading fluency in individuals with the mental illness. (mcgill.ca)
Mattai A, Hosanagar A, Weisinger B, Greenstein D, Stidd R, Clasen L. Hippocampal volume development in healthy siblings of childhood-onset schizophrenia patients. (medscape.com)
It has also been observed that patients with schizophrenia have abnormal structure of the prefrontal cortex, temporal cortex or anterior cingulate cortex. (news-medical.net)
Second, patient self-report is critical to establishing the diagnosis of schizophrenia, yet many patients deny the characteristic symptoms or are inconsistent in their report of these internal experiences. (springer.com)
The Israeli database contained anonymous information about more than a million soldiers, including patients with schizophrenia and autism. (medicalnewstoday.com)
Clozapine is considered the last-line antipsychotic agent for patients with refractory schizophrenia," said Dr. Lane, referring to patients whose symptoms do not respond to available antipsychotics. (elsevier.com)
If the finding can be confirmed, this approach may bring hope for treating patients with the most refractory schizophrenia," said Dr. Lane. (elsevier.com)
Bitopertin is being studied to determine if it can help schizophrenia patients with their "negative" symptoms such as lack of emotion and poor social skills. (forbes.com)
Without discounting the suffering this disease inflicts on people, our study shows that happiness is an attainable goal for at least some schizophrenia patients," said Jeste, who is also the Estelle and Edgar Levi Chair in Aging and director of the Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging at UC San Diego. (eurekalert.org)
Responses suggest that about 37 percent of schizophrenia patients were happy most or all of the time, compared with about 83 percent for those in the comparison group. (eurekalert.org)
Approximately 15 percent of schizophrenia patients reported being never or rarely happy. (eurekalert.org)
Scientists at Karolinska Institutet have now been able to analyze inflammatory substances in the spinal fluid of patients with schizophrenia, instead of, as in previous studies, in the blood. (redorbit.com)
The results show that patients with recent-onset schizophrenia have raised levels of a signal substance called interleukin-1beta, which can be released in the presence of inflammation. (redorbit.com)
The group is now studying if the inflammatory process is only activated in connection with the development of schizophrenia, or whether chronic patients exhibit the same phenomenon. (redorbit.com)
The Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler coined the terms "schizophrenia", for the splitting of psychic functions, and "autism", for withdrawal from external reality in patients with schizophrenia, almost exactly a century ago ( 1 ). (pnas.org)
Since the birth of psychotherapy with Freud , most therapists have avoided treating patients with schizophrenia . (psychologytoday.com)
2016). As a psychotherapist who devotes the majority of my practice to treating patients with schizophrenia, I can attest to the benefit of psychotherapy for this difficult and debilitating condition. (psychologytoday.com)
Also resources for schizophrenia patients and family members. (healthyplace.com)
4 In schizophrenia patients, cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases have been estimated to account for approximately 60% of premature deaths. (lundbeck.com)
5 Furthermore, patients with schizophrenia are more than twice as likely to die from CVD compared to the general population. (lundbeck.com)

Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness that affects 300,000 Canadians. (schizophrenia.ca)
Worldwide, schizophrenia affects 50 million people, many unable to function normally, as they are tormented with delusions and hallucinations. (cnn.com)
Some doctors describe schizophrenia as a psychotic illness because it affects the ability to establish between what is real and what is not. (medic8.com)
Schizophrenia, however, affects everyone differently. (chicagotribune.com)
Schizophrenia is one of the psychotic, also called thought-disordered, mental disorders and affects a person's thoughts, behaviors, and social functioning. (medicinenet.com)
Other statistics about schizophrenia include that it affects men about one and a half times more commonly than women. (medicinenet.com)
Schizophrenia is a mental illness that affects the way you understand and interact with the world around you. (cmha.ca)
Schizophrenia affects people regardless of race, culture or social class. (lundbeck.com)
Schizophrenia affects both men and women, although men tend to develop the condition slightly earlier in life. (lundbeck.com)

The symptoms of chronic schizophrenia. (wikipedia.org)
High prevalence of visual hallucinations in research subjects with chronic schizophrenia. (springer.com)
The severity of the symptoms and the long-lasting, chronic pattern of schizophrenia often cause a high degree of disability. (empowher.com)
Instead, the study shows that happiness among those with chronic forms of schizophrenia is associated with positive psychological and social attributes such as resilience, optimism and lower perceived stress. (eurekalert.org)

These drugs are most effective for the "positive" symptoms of schizophrenia, such as hallucinations and delusions. (empowher.com)
No changes were seen in positive symptoms (for instance, hallucinations), but it isn't possible to tell whether that is because these symptoms were already being controlled by prescription medications or whether glycine simply has no effect on that aspect of schizophrenia. (empowher.com)
Medications that systematic reviews of published studies (meta-analyses) have found to be most effective in treating the positive symptoms of schizophrenia are first- and second-generation antipsychotics. (medicinenet.com)
The symptoms of schizophrenia fall into three broad categories: positive symptoms, negative symptoms, and cognitive symptoms. (athealth.com)
What are Schizophrenia Negative and Positive Symptoms? (healthyplace.com)
Schizophrenia symptoms are often classified as negative or positive symptoms. (healthyplace.com)
1 Schizophrenia symptoms can be defined by what are known as positive symptoms and negative symptoms, along with cognitive symptoms, mood symptoms, and motor symptoms. (lundbeck.com)
Positive symptoms are those symptoms that are not normally experienced, but are present in people during a psychotic episode in schizophrenia. (wikipedia.org)

Finding the causes for schizophrenia proves to be difficult as the cause and course of illness is unique for each person. (schizophrenia.ca)
Schizophrenia Outlook: A Time of Hope Currently, schizophrenia cannot be cured, but the outlook for people suffering from this illness is constantly improving. (webmd.com)
The schizophrenia spectrum is an illness which is both prevalent and treatable. (lulu.com)
Unfortunately, there is still a great deal of misunderstanding around schizophrenia," Brian Semple, of UK charity Rethink Mental Illness , told MNT . (medicalnewstoday.com)
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) claim that 64% of people believe a split personality - frequently switching between normal and bizarre behavior - is a symptom of schizophrenia. (medicalnewstoday.com)
Schizophrenia is a complex and confusing illness that can baffle family members, friends, the patient, and mental health professionals alike. (springer.com)
The diagnosis of schizophrenia can be complicated by two important factors: First, the symptoms of the illness overlap with those of many other disorders (e.g., affective disorders, substance abuse), requiring careful attention to issues of differential diagnosis. (springer.com)
In order to accurately diagnose schizophrenia, the interviewer must possess an adequate fund of knowledge about the psychopathology of the illness, the relative merits of available assessment instruments, interviewing techniques, and methods for obtaining information necessary for the assessment. (springer.com)
Schizophrenia, which is seen as the paradigmatic psychiatric illness, presents different symptoms in multiple domains, whereby positive and negative phenomena can be separated (Falkai et al. (redorbit.com)
More than two million people in the United States have been diagnosed with schizophrenia, which can be a difficult illness to treat effectively. (wbez.org)
Schizophrenia is an illness that disrupts the functioning of the mind. (sane.org)
Initially, symptoms of schizophrenia can be hard to detect because the illness tends to develop slowly and symptoms can be fairly general. (medic8.com)
The first thing (the media) jumped at was 'could this have been someone with a mental illness who had schizophrenia? (chicagotribune.com)
People who experience the first episode of this mental illness after the age of 40 years are considered to have late-onset schizophrenia. (medicinenet.com)
'I don't remember being sectioned' Jump to media player As an independent inquiry calls a major overhaul of the system for caring for people with schizophrenia, Carley Townsend tells the BBC about her experience with the illness. (bbc.co.uk)
Schizophrenia stigma 'massive issue' Jump to media player Stigma is a 'massive issue' for people with schizophrenia and must be addressed as part of a major overhaul of care for people with the illness, a charity suggests. (bbc.co.uk)
6. From having written about schizophrenia in such a perceptive, realistic way, could you tell our community members your take on the illness and what that takeaway might be for the viewer? (healthcentral.com)
Especially when you have a condition like Schizophrenia, where even the name of your illness sounds scary. (twitter.com)
The symptoms of schizophrenia appear gradually and family and friends may not notice them as the illness takes initial hold. (healthyplace.com)
Psychiatrists diagnose schizophrenia when a patient has had active symptoms of the illness (such as a psychotic episode) for at least two weeks, with other symptoms lasting six months. (healthyplace.com)
Children subjected to pre-natal trauma from illness or other maladies might be at a higher risk of childhood schizophrenia, and children of families with a history of schizophrenia might be at an increased risk of develop the disease. (infobarrel.com)
Was Nash's recovery unusual or remarkable, much less miraculous, when compared to the course the illness takes with other people with schizophrenia? (pbs.org)

In addition, psychiatrists must rule out any possible sign of catatonic schizophrenia. (wikipedia.org)
In people who are uncommunicative and where it appears the person might have catatonic schizophrenia, the diagnosis of schizophrenia may have to be provisional until adequate evidence of the presence of other symptoms is obtained. (psychcentral.com)

Disorganized schizophrenia is thought to be an extreme expression of the disorganization syndrome that has been hypothesized to be one aspect of a three-factor model of symptoms in schizophrenia, [2] the other factors being reality distortion (involving delusions and hallucinations) and psychomotor poverty (lack of speech, lack of spontaneous movement and various aspects of blunting of emotion). (wikipedia.org)
People diagnosed with schizophrenia can often experience delusions and hallucinations, which cause them to see or hear things that are not there and believe things that are untrue. (medicalnewstoday.com)
We know as a general rule, with exceptions, that as people with schizophrenia age, they have fewer symptoms, such as delusions and hallucinations," says E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., author of the best-selling book, Surviving Schizophrenia . (pbs.org)

Retrieved on June 18, 2019 from https://www.news-medical.net/health/Schizophrenia-Mechanisms.aspx. (news-medical.net)
2019. "Schizophrenia Bulletin. (wikipedia.org)

Premature babies born with a low birth weight, or those with complications or infections at birth are more likely to be susceptible to the development of schizophrenia. (news-medical.net)

Individuals with schizophrenia are dying sooner than those without, but their mental health condition isn't completely to blame. (newsweek.com)
Current research suggests that cerebral blood decreases in the left parahippocampal region of individuals with schizophrenia. (news-medical.net)

This form of schizophrenia is typically associated with early onset (often between the ages of 15 and 25 years) and is thought to have a poor prognosis because of the rapid development of negative symptoms and decline in social functioning. (wikipedia.org)
GAD1 (2q31.1), which encodes glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD-67), is associated with childhood onset schizophrenia and cortical gray matter volume loss. (medicinenet.com)
While the first episode of schizophrenia tends to occur from 18-25 years of age for men, the age of onset for women peaks initially from 25-30 years of age and again at about 40 years of age. (medicinenet.com)
Childhood schizophrenia, although rare, is equally as debilitating as adult-onset schizophrenia . (infobarrel.com)
The criterion for diagnosing childhood schizophrenia is that of adults, with the one difference being the age of onset of symptoms . (infobarrel.com)
As with adult-onset schizophrenia, childhood schizophrenia has no known cause. (infobarrel.com)
Symptoms of childhood schizophrenia are the same as adult-onset schizophrenia, but more difficult to detect until a pattern of behavior is established. (infobarrel.com)
While children are more difficult to treat and prognosis is not as good as that of adult-onset schizophrenia, there are options available. (infobarrel.com)
Early-onset schizophrenia is classified as when the symptoms show up before the child is 18 years old. (wikihow.com)
Very early-onset schizophrenia occurs in children who are under 13 years of age and is extremely rare. (wikihow.com)

This finding has stimulated an important new hypothesis in the study of the etiology of schizophrenia. (springer.com)
He quotes approvingly a description of schizophrenia as "a condition of obscure origins and no established etiology, pathogenesis and pathology," without "even any clear disease marker or laboratory test by which it can readily be identified. (nytimes.com)

Scientists have identified a gene mutation that increases a person's risk of developing schizophrenia by more than 10 times, according to a new study. (livescience.com)

The presence or absence of negative symptoms in persons with the diagnosis of schizophrenia was ascertained and two subgroups were contrasted. (redorbit.com)
The term Ã ´deficit schizophreniaÃ ´ was introduced to refer to negative symptoms that are direct manifestations of schizophrenia, not negative symptom ratings that can occur for a variety of reasons in people with schizophrenia but are not caused by schizophrenia itself. (redorbit.com)
When they get inadequate folate in their diet, they exhibit negative symptoms of schizophrenia, as well as cognitive deficits. (massgeneral.org)
In fact, there are still another four bitopertin clinical trials ongoing, one looking at negative symptoms and three others studying the impact of bitopertin on other poorly controlled symptoms of schizophrenia such as hallucinogens and delusions. (forbes.com)
A clinical trial enrolled 22 participants who continued to experience negative symptoms of schizophrenia despite standard therapy. (empowher.com)
Four other small double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trials of glycine together with standard drugs for schizophrenia (including the newer drugs olanzapine and risperidone) also found it to be helpful for negative symptoms. (empowher.com)
They tend to develop in advanced cases, which is why an individual may suffer symptoms of schizophrenia for a long time before they experience any negative symptoms. (medic8.com)
It's been found that many people suffering from schizophrenia experience a reduction in the negative symptoms of the disease (hallucinations, delusions) when they are smoking and an increase in these symptoms when they cease smoking. (empowher.com)

The article is "Neural Correlates of Impaired Cognitive Control over Working Memory in Schizophrenia" by Teal S. Eich, Derek Evan Nee, Catherine Insel, Chara Malapani, and Edward E. Smith (doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2013.09.032). (elsevier.com)
Furthermore, schizophrenia is associated with cognitive impairment, disorganized speech and behavior, as well as poor attention. (redorbit.com)
Probing more deeply, however, he uncovers similar cognitive configurations reflected in schizophrenia and modern art and literature. (nytimes.com)

Health care professionals diagnose schizophrenia by gathering comprehensive medical, family, mental health, and social/cultural information. (medicinenet.com)

The glutamatergic dysfunction hypothesis for schizophrenia. (medscape.com)

The DSM-IV criteria (note there may be new criteria for the condition under the DSM-5) for the diagnosis of schizophrenia require the presence of symptoms for certain periods of time. (wikipedia.org)
Despite stereotypes of the madman or -woman wandering institutional hallways, only 10 percent of people with an initial diagnosis of schizophrenia require hospitalization after 30 years. (pbs.org)

His analysis of the extreme otherness and the baffling heterogeneity of the usual symptoms -- two features of schizophrenia that pose a special challenge to the search for understanding or explanatory generalization -- illustrate his analytical approach. (nytimes.com)

After about the age of 7, hallucinations and delusions present for greater than six months indicate the possible presence of schizophrenia. (infobarrel.com)

Following the linking we would ask all donors to send their donations to Mental Health Research UK, where it will be used for research into Schizophrenia. (google.com)
Mental Health Research UK is linked with Schizophrenia Research Fund. (google.com)
Sometimes, they also use it to treat other mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. (webmd.com)
Mental Health Organizations For more information on schizophrenia, you may want to check these organizations' websites. (webmd.com)
Mental Health Message Board Meet others affected by schizophrenia and get answers to your questions on WebMD's message board. (webmd.com)
Today is World Mental Health Day, and this year's theme is "Living with Schizophrenia. (medicalnewstoday.com)
I think people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia are still feared and perceived as dangerous," said Dr. David Crepaz-Keay, head of empowerment and social inclusion at UK charity the Mental Health Foundation , who has lived with a diagnosis of schizophrenia for around 35 years. (medicalnewstoday.com)
Schizophrenia is one of the most common mental illnesses. (washington.edu)
Psychological tests can help to differentiate schizophrenia from other related mental health disorders and general substance abuse. (news-medical.net)
Efforts in Europe during the mid-20th Century to reduce this heterogeneity by separating Ã ´trueÃ ´ or nuclear schizophrenia from other psychotic disorders became the international standard with DSM-III (Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders) in 1979. (redorbit.com)
If your doctor suspects that you have schizophrenia they will usually refer you to a community mental health team. (medic8.com)
Schizophrenia is one of the psychotic mental disorders and is characterized by symptoms of thought, behavior, and social problems. (medicinenet.com)
We provide a wide range of services for individuals who are living with schizophrenia and other mental health conditions. (upmc.com)
See my article with psychiatrist Ronald Pies here which touches on the myth that psychiatrists see schizophrenia and other mental disorders as mere "chemical imbalances. (psychologytoday.com)
The last decade has seen an enormous refocusing of scientific effort on schizophrenia, directed, in large measure, by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). (springer.com)
I walked into a monthly gathering of women who have mental health diagnoses and immediately one of them shouted out: 'You're Chris Bruni' I hadn't ever met her in my life before, yet she knew it was me because she read my column and saw my photo in Schizophrenia Digest , renamed SZ magazine years ago. (healthcentral.com)
Mental Health America has more about schizophrenia . (go.com)
The increase ofasthma, emphysema, lung and mouth cancer, as well as heart diseasecompounds the mental, emotional and physical struggles that people with schizophrenia are already facing. (empowher.com)
She had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and needed assessment for other mental-health issues, Mr Miller said. (theage.com.au)
The DSM-IV, the diagnostic mental health bible put out by the American Psychiatric Association, doesn't even consider someone to have schizophrenia if the symptoms persist for less than six months. (pbs.org)
By monitoring their language development, checking for physical signs, and keeping tabs on their mental health, you may be able to determine if your child is suffering from schizophrenia. (wikihow.com)

Even based on these early predictors, people who score in the top 10% of risk may be up to 20-fold more prone to developing schizophrenia. (nih.gov)
In some cases, the cause is unknown but there are risk factors which tend to make some people prone to developing schizophrenia. (medic8.com)

The criteria for diagnosing schizophrenia had changed radically from the original Kraepelian concept of avolition combined with dissociative pathology (Kraepelin, 1896). (redorbit.com)

Voices" are the most common type of hallucination in schizophrenia. (athealth.com)
The most common hallucination in schizophrenia is hearing voices that comment on the patient's behavior, insult the patient or give commands. (healthyplace.com)

What to Expect From Schizophrenia Medicines Each person responds differently to the medications used for schizophrenia, and it may take time to get various symptoms under control. (webmd.com)

This book has information that will help people diagnosed with schizophrenia as well as those that it touches: family, friends, and other loved ones of those who have been diagnosed. (lulu.com)
But it seems society as a whole has other ideas about what people diagnosed with schizophrenia are like. (medicalnewstoday.com)

Auditory hallucinations of voices are the most common hallucinations in schizophrenia, but affected individuals can also experience hallucinations of visions, smells, or touch (tactile) sensations. (medlineplus.gov)
People with schizophrenia often suffer terrifying symptoms, such as hearing internal voices not heard by others, or believing that other people are reading their minds, controlling their thoughts, or plotting to harm them. (empowher.com)
People with schizophrenia may hear voices for a long time before family and friends notice the problem. (athealth.com)
People with schizophrenia are affected by delusions (fixed false beliefs that can be terrifying to the person experiencing them), hallucinations (sensory experiences, such as hearing voices talking about them when there is no one there), social withdrawal and disturbed thinking. (cmha.ca)

Leveraging genome-wide association and clinical data in revealing schizophrenia subgroups. (nih.gov)
There is a wide agreement that schizophrenia remains poorly understood, and this book marvelously summarizes not only the clinical problem, but also the beginnings of a plan for solving it. (mit.edu)
IN this fascinating book Louis A. Sass, a clinical psychologist who teaches at Rutgers, explores why schizophrenia remains shrouded in mystery. (nytimes.com)
The agent had been dropped from development a decade ago after initial clinical trial results indicated it was less effective than other schizophrenia medications including risperidone (Risperdal) and haloperidol (Haldol). (medpagetoday.com)
Schizophrenia is a clinical diagnosis. (medscape.com)

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Improving social interaction in chronic psychotic using discriminated avoidance ("nagging"): experimental analysis and generalization. (1/7917)

Effects of family history and place and season of birth on the risk of schizophrenia. (2/7917)

Search for retroviral related DNA polymorphisms using RAPD PCR in schizophrenia. (3/7917)

The size and fibre composition of the corpus callosum with respect to gender and schizophrenia: a post-mortem study. (4/7917)

The neuropsychopharmacology of phencyclidine: from NMDA receptor hypofunction to the dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia. (5/7917)

The use of atypical antipsychotics in the management of schizophrenia. (6/7917)

No correlation between A(-1438)G polymorphism in 5-HT2A receptor gene promoter and the density of frontal cortical 5-HT2A receptors in schizophrenia. (7/7917)

Differential effects of mental stress on plasma homovanillic acid in schizophrenia and normal controls. (8/7917)

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