[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...
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Drugs that alter inhibitory targets offer therapeutic strategies for autism, schizophrenia
Memories are formed at structures in the brain known as dendritic spines, which communicate with other brain cells through “synapses.” The number of these brain connections decreases by half after puberty in a process termed adolescent “synaptic pruning” that is necessary for normal learning in adulthood. However, the pruning away of unnecessary synapses does not...
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Pitt study provides clues to relationship between schizophrenia and rheumatoid arthritis
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 24, 2017 – An in-depth computational analysis of genetic variants implicated in both schizophrenia and rheumatoid arthritis by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh points to eight genes that may explain why susceptibility to one of the disorders could place individuals at lower risk for the other, according to the results of a...
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Sufferers of schizophrenia
Sufferers of schizophrenia ‘may have a treatable immune disorder’ that could be completely cured Experts found 1 in 11 psychosis cases involved antibodies attacking the brain Antibodies attacked the ‘NMDA receptor’ – which can cause encephalitis The findings could open up a different route to tackling mental illness, they say By Stephen Matthews For Mailonline...