Suicide Rate Up for Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
MONDAY, June 29, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Overall, 1.71 percent of individuals with a first...
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Schizophrenia
Minerva’s schizophrenia drug misses main goal in study; shares tumble
(Reuters) – Drug developer Minerva Neurosciences Inc said on Friday its experimental drug for schizophrenia did not meet the main goal of a late-stage study, sending its shares down nearly 66% in early trade. The drug,...
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Mental Disorders May Up Risk for Subsequent Medical Conditions
Median hazard ratio was 1.37 for link between mental disorder, medical condition in Danish cohort
Read MoreCognitive and Emotional Empathy in Individuals at Clinical High Risk of Psychosis.
Impairments of social cognition are considered core features of schizophrenia and are established predictors of social functioning. However, affective aspects of social cognition including empathy have far less been studied than...
Read MoreRegion-specific effects of maternal separation on oxidative stress accumulation in parvalbumin neurons of male and female rats.
Early life adversity in humans is linked to cognitive deficits and increased risk of mental illnesses, including depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia, with evidence for different vulnerabilities in men versus women....
Read MoreChanges in the intracranial volume from early adulthood to the sixth decade of life: A longitudinal study.
Normal brain-aging occurs at all structural levels. Excessive pathophysiological changes in the brain, beyond the normal one, are implicated in the etiology of brain disorders such as severe forms of the schizophrenia spectrum...
Read MoreA preliminary study to investigate resting state fMRI as a potential group differentiator for schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia (SZ) is found to be associated with dysconnectivity between the various regions of the brain. These aberrant connections in brain networks responsible for various mental processes in schizophrenia. We examined...
Read MoreLower cerebrospinal fluid CRH concentration in chronic schizophrenia with negative symptoms.
Some patients with schizophrenia have impaired hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function. However, there is a dearth of studies focusing on corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) levels in the brains of schizophrenia patients,...
Read MorePredictors of criminal offending in a clinical sample of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia: A 6-year follow-up study.
Criminal behavior in schizophrenia has been associated with a number of risk factors including symptoms of schizophrenia, co-occurring personality disorders (PDs), substance abuse, intellectual and cognitive dysfunctions,...
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