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Schizophrenia News
October 8, 2020

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Auditory Hallucinations Rooted in Aberrant Brain Connectivity

A study reports that auditory hallucinations, a phenomenon in which people hear voices or other sounds, may arise through altered brain connectivity between sensory and cognitive processing ...

Whole Genome Sequencing Reveals Genetic Structural Secrets of Schizophrenia

Scientists have conducted the largest-ever whole genome sequencing study of schizophrenia to provide a more complete picture of the role the human genome plays in this ...

Molecular Switch for Repairing Central Nervous System Disorders

A molecular switch has the ability to turn on a substance in animals that repairs neurological damage in disorders such as multiple sclerosis (MS), researchers have discovered. The early research in ...

Broccoli Sprout Compound May Restore Brain Chemistry Imbalance Linked to Schizophrenia

In a series of recently published studies using animals and people, researchers say they have further characterized a set of chemical imbalances in ...
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Computer Model Explains Altered Decision Making in Schizophrenia

Scientists have built a computer 'brain circuit', or artificial neural network, that mirrors human decision-making processes and sheds light on how circuits might be altered in psychiatric ...

Key Role of Immune Cells in Brain Development

Researchers have identified how specific brain cells interacting during development could be related to neurological and neuropsychiatric diseases, including some that occur later in ...

Second Type of Schizophrenia Discovered

In a study of more than 300 patients from three continents, over one third had brains that looked similar to healthy ...

Engaging With Schizophrenia: Experts Argue for New Approaches to Treatment

A better understanding of the lived experience of people with schizophrenia would enable clinicians to help patients live with their condition, alongside treating symptoms with medication and ...

Key Modifier Identified in Large Genetic Deletion Related to Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Neurodevelopmental disorders, including schizophrenia and autism, likely result from complex interactions that modify the effects of individual genes, according to new ...

Unraveling Mechanisms of Ventricular Enlargement Linked to Schizophrenia

Scientists have implicated two microRNAs in the biological processes that underlie the ventricle enlargement observed in models of ...

New Clues Into the Genetic Origins of Schizophrenia

The first genetic analysis of schizophrenia in an ancestral African population, the South African Xhosa, appears in the Jan. 31 issue of the journal Science. An international group of scientists ...

New Insight Into How Cannabidiol Takes Effect in the Brains of People With Psychosis

Researchers have shown that cannabidiol (CBD) alters the brain activity in people with psychosis during memory tasks, making it more similar to the activation seen in people without psychosis during ...

Research Offers Promise for Treating Schizophrenia

Psychologists show that targeting one particular symptom of schizophrenia has a positive effect on other ...

Cognitive Function in People With Mental Illness

A study has shown few differences in the profiles of genes that influence cognition between people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and the general population. This surprising finding could ...

Hyperactive Immune System Gene Causes Schizophrenia-Like Changes in Mice

Excessive activity of an immune system gene previously linked to schizophrenia reproduces neural and behavioral aspects of the disease in mice, according to a new study. The finding provides ...

Long-Term Medication for Schizophrenia Is Safe, Study Suggests

Researchers have studied the safety of very long-term antipsychotic therapy for schizophrenia. According to the study mortality was higher during periods when patients were not on medication than ...

Air Pollution in Childhood Linked to Schizophrenia

Children who grow up in areas with heavy air pollution have a higher risk of developing ...

Impact of Methamphetamine Use Depends on Your Genes

Researchers found that variations in the gene known as BDNF strongly determine the effects of methamphetamine in the brain. This could potentially explain why some users develop ...

Having a Psychotic Disorder May Increase Decline of Some Areas of Cognition Over Adulthood

A new study has shown that relative to participants without a psychotic disorder, those diagnosed with a disorder were consistently impaired across all areas of cognitive (memory and thinking) ...

New Protein Function Could Be Key to Treatment of Drug Addiction and Behavioral Disorders

The reward pathway of the brain causes feelings of happiness but is also involved in behavioral disorders like schizophrenia and addiction. A breakthrough study has now identified the role of a ...

Chronic Adversity Dampens Dopamine Production

People exposed to a lifetime of psychosocial adversity may have an impaired ability to produce the dopamine levels needed for coping with acutely stressful ...

Lower IQ, Family History Tied to Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia

Those with a family history of schizophrenia and men with lower IQ are more likely to struggle with treatment resistant schizophrenia than others with the mental disorder, according to a new study. ...

Biomarker for Schizophrenia Can Be Detected in Human Hair

Working with model mice, post-mortem human brains, and people with schizophrenia, researchers have discovered that a subtype of schizophrenia is related to abnormally high levels hydrogen sulfide in ...

Schizophrenia Risk Gene Linked to Cognitive Deficits in Mice

Researchers have discovered in mice how one of the few genes definitively linked to schizophrenia, called SETD1A, likely confers risk for the illness. Mice genetically engineered to lack a ...

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