NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY In a new case study, researchers at North Carolina State University describe an adolescent human patient diagnosed with rapid onset schizophrenia who was found instead to have a Bartonella henselae infection. This study adds to the growing body of evidence that Bartonellainfection can mimic a host of chronic illnesses, including mental illness, and could open up new avenues of research into bacterial or...
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African-Americans more likely to be misdiagnosed with schizophrenia, Rutgers study finds
African-Americans with severe depression are more likely to be misdiagnosed as having schizophrenia, according to a new Rutgers study. The study, which appeared online prior to being published in the February 2019 issue of the journal Psychiatric Services, examined the medical records of 1,657 people at a community behavioral health clinic that included screening for major depression...
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BIDMC researchers ID, treat faulty brain circuitry underlying symptoms of schizophrenia
BOSTON – Schizophrenia is a chronic and disabling mental illness that affects more than three million Americans. Anti-psychotic medication can control schizophrenia’s psychotic symptoms, including the hallucinations and delusions that are well-known hallmarks of the disease. However, there are no effective treatments for the disease’s ‘negative symptoms’ – so-called because they involve a loss of...
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A New Treatment for Menopause May Be on the Way
Researchers say a new type of drug that blocks a receptor in the brain could provide relief for women going through menopause. There’s good news for women going through menopause if you can wait three years or so. Credit: Getty Images Researchers say they’ve discovered that an experimental class of drugs that blocks a key...
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Breakthrough in schizophrenia identifies importance of immune cells
Researchers from NeuRA and UNSW have made a major discovery in schizophrenia research that could open doors to new treatments, research, and therapies. In one of the biggest breakthroughs in schizophrenia research in recent times, Professor Cynthia Shannon Weickert from Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) and UNSW Sydney have identified immune cells in greater amounts in the brains of some...
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Using DNA to predict schizophrenia and autism
Huntington’s disease, cystic fibrosis, and muscular dystrophy are all diseases that can be traced to a single mutation. Diagnosis in asymptomatic patients for these diseases is relatively easy—you have the mutation? Then you are at risk. Complex diseases, on the other hand, do not have a clear mutational footprint. A new multi-institutional study by Japanese...
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Scientists zap ‘voices’ from schizophrenia sufferers
[PARIS] Scientists have pinpointed a part of the brain where “voices” torment schizophrenia sufferers, and partially muted them with magnetic pulse treatment, a team reported on Tuesday. More than a third of sufferers treated with magnetic pulses in a patient trial experienced “significant” relief, the scientists said in a statement. “We can now say with...
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The concept of schizophrenia is coming to an end – here’s why
The concept of schizophrenia is dying. Harried for decades by psychology, it now appears to have been fatally wounded by psychiatry, the very profession that once sustained it. Its passing will not be mourned. Today, having a diagnosis of schizophrenia is associated with a life-expectancy reduction of nearly two decades. By some criteria, only one in seven people...
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Electrical stimulation of brain may help people with schizophrenia learn to communicate better
UCLA researchers have found that people with schizophrenia were able to more accurately determine whether two auditory tones matched or differed, after receiving a type of electrical brain stimulation. Being able to distinguish tones is essential for verbal communication. People with schizophrenia have difficulty discriminating between tones of differing frequencies. This is thought to impair...
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First Blood Test To Accurately Diagnose Depression And Schizophrenia Developed
After The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York announced last week the development of a blood test to identify autism in children, there have been reports of yet another advancement in diagnostic technology, this time from scientists at Yale, the John B. Pierce Laboratory, and the VA Medical Center in West Haven, Connecticut. The team has worked...