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Mentally-Ill Patients Get Re-Hospitalized More

...ersonality disorder and 41 per cent of people with schizophrenia and one in five had a substance-related disorder such as alcoholism. Generally, these patients were younger and more likely to be male. Patients with mental illness constituted about six percent of all hospitalizations.It was also found that the av...

Old Anti-psychotic Drugs Are Equally Good

...hotic drugs. // The study was conducted upon 227 schizophrenia patients who needed a change in drugs as the treat... and given a chance to decide. However,people with schizophrenia who are already taking an older antipsychotic which is working for them should not switch to a newer...

Blame Myelin for Many Neuropsychiatric Disorders

...in diseases that afflict both young and old — from schizophrenia to Alzheimer’s. Now, in a report published in the journal Biological Psychiatry and available online, Bartzokis argues that the miles of myelin coating in our brain are the key “evolutionary change that defines our uniqueness as a species” and, fu...

People from Broken Homes Prone to Psychotic Illnesses

...e traditional view has been that psychosis such as schizophrenia is largely a genetic brain disease, and most psych...rted the online edition of BBC News. They found schizophrenia was nine times more common in people from African Caribbean origin, and six times more common in peo...

High risk of mental illness linked to early parental separation

...ed increased risk of suffering from psychoses, and schizophrenia according to recent studies conducted by scientists from the Institute of Psychiatry in London. They found that both women as well as men show and increased risk. Schizophrenia seemed to surface 2.5 times more in whites of other nations six times mo...

Drop in Number of Psychiatric admissions

...nted for almost one-third (31%) of all admissions, schizophrenia accounted for 20%, alcoholic disorders for 14% and mania accounted for 13%. NLA...

Music therapy for Schizophrenics

According to British scientists, symptoms of schizophrenia can be relieved by music therapy.// Researchers ...ient treatment by reducing some of the symptoms of schizophrenia that respond least well to drug treatment," Crawford added. GYT...

Gene Variant associated with Schizophrenia identified

...Neuroscience.200 youths at high risk of developing schizophrenia were monitored for 10 years in this study. As schizophrenia is a hereditary disorder, all the volunteers had 2 or more relatives affected by this condition. All...

‘Schizophrenia’ term ought to be abolishd

...p of mental health experts announced that the term schizophrenia should be done away with, as it has no scientific ...he University of Manchester, said, "The concept of schizophrenia is scientifically meaningless."It groups together a whole range of different problems under one labe...

FDA Gives the Nod to 'Risperdal' For Use in Autistic Children

...d drug administration has given the go-ahead for a schizophrenia drug to be used in management of autism in children. The drug in question, Johnson & Johnson's 'Risperdal'//, holds promise in effectively managing irritability, aggression, self-injury and temper tantrums that might show up in autistic children. Ri...

New Antipsychotic Medications have Little Advantage Over Older Drugs

Among patients with schizophrenia whose medication is changed because of ineffective...safer and more effective in treating patients with schizophrenia than the less-expensive first-generation class of medications. For almost 50 years, antipsychotic m...

Billionaire’s Pet Projec

...de those of Alzheimer's disease, autism, epilepsy, schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease. Within four years, scientists working for the Atlas project have mapped over 21 000 genes. They then checked each gene to see which ones are turned on - expressed - in brain tissue. Although each cell in an organism's body ...

AMD influenced by Variation in 3 Genes

...ntribute to the disease, similar to heart disease, schizophrenia and diabetes. The combinations of variation within a given gene and between genes, along with environmental factors, confers one's lifetime risk of a disease like AMD. Variations in the BF/C2 gene are protective for AMD, whereas the more common varia...

Brain changes in schizophrenia to be analyzed

...ost-mortem brain tissue from people diagnosed with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder with the tissue from normal pe...ipsychotic drugs used commonly in the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder – clozapine (Clozaril) and haloperidol (Haldol) – in monkeys. BThe purpose of ...

Diagnosing Schizophrenia

...actly what goes wrong in the brains of people with schizophrenia is yet to be pinned down. Raymond Deicken at the U...lamus region of the brain are lower in people with schizophrenia than in those without. To find out whether software could diagnose the condition from NAA levels, ...

Developing Countries Undertake Cataloguing of Human Mutations

...d two genetic variations that predispose people to schizophrenia (a disease that 1% of people around the world develop). While researchers like Brahmachari have started making their own collections, the task of the Human Variome Project is to curate a global collection. It's a "Tower of Babel" problem. For the...

Effective Anti - Psychotic Drugs Pack Health Risk

...apine's link to metabolic syndrome. ‘People with schizophrenia are known to exercise less and have poor diets,’ Lamberti said. ‘Those factors contribute to metabolic syndrome. We can't say how much clozapine contributes to metabolic syndrome, but we have shown the high prevalence of the syndrome in those who tak...

Schizophrenic Symptoms Need Combination Therapy

...egative symptoms are the main reason patients with schizophrenia cannot live independently, hold jobs, establish pe... rehabilitation is being used to teach people with schizophrenia how to safely communicate their needs and show that they understand the needs of others. Also called...

Schizophrenia Complicates With Altered Receptor Activity

...e. Previous studies of the brains of patients with schizophrenia suggest altered function in the prefrontal cortex,...onal, large-scale genetic studies of patients with schizophrenia have pointed researchers to a gene called neuregulin 1 (NRG1), which appears to play a role in deter...

Child Abuse a Plausible Reason for Schizophrenia

...ey said that these patients who are suffering from schizophrenia or admitted in the mental asylum should be approached keeping in mind the new finding rater than giving mood-altering drugs. Hammersley said that genes may also play an important role in schizophrenia. Through research so far only Alzheimer's diseas...

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