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Prose Memory Deficits Found To Be Associated With Schizophrenia

...bal memory. It was speculated that patients with schizophrenia would have a poorer performance compared with heal...to healthy controls. A total of 39 patients with schizophrenia and 39 matched healthy controls were recruited. Their prose memory, in terms of recall accuracy, tem...

Learning process to be regulated by altering brain protein

...earning could pave way for better understanding of schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease. // A protein named “ Re...production of the protein has been associated with schizophrenia in humans.Emphasis has been laid on a specific area of the brain called the hippocampus, which is im...

Gene Activity connected to Schizophrenia

... the PRODH2 seemed to be more common in those with schizophrenia than in others, although the investigators could n...he genes was over-represented in the patients with schizophrenia compared to the healthy people. More work is needed until we have a genetic profile of variation tha...

Perfect babies boon or a bane?

... passing diseases such as Huntington’s Disease and schizophrenia on to their children.// However, the report warns that IGM could be used not only to treat inheritable diseases, but to enhance normal human characteristics such as height, intelligence, eye or hair colour. This could be done, for example, by insert...

Schizophrenia Gets A New Diagnostic Tool

... first scientists to develop a tool for diagnosing schizophrenia and bipolar disease. Currently there is no single ...g mental illness. Some of the symptoms suffered by schizophrenia are hallucinations seen or heard, feelings of being persecuted, becoming withdrawn, aggression and d...

Famine May Be A Cause For Schizophrenia

...ies born during famine face the risk of developing schizophrenia later in life//, says a study in China. David St ...ong University in China looked at the incidence of schizophrenia among those born before, during and after the 1959-1961 period of extreme famine in the badly affect...

Neurological Disorders Overcome By Proteins

... to help those with neurological disorders such as schizophrenia and multiple sclerosis, reports Xinhua. The protein, juxtanodin, is believed to control the development of specialised brain cells relating to the nerve signalling network, according to a report Wednesday by the English language daily Today. The ne...

Researchers Identify Key Gene That May Help Brain Treatment

...ead to better treatment of conditions ranging from schizophrenia to multiple sclerosis, researchers said Wednesday. The National University of Singapore (NUS) study has unveiled a new gene that speeds up the growth of the body's protective fatty nerve coverings. Named juxtanodin, the gene speeds up the growth of...

Wearing High Heels May Be Dangerous To Health

...d with //higher incidence of mental disorders like schizophrenia etc. Jarl Flensmark says high heels cause their w...explain why Western societies have higher rates of schizophrenia among women then do other societies where high heels are rarely worn. "Heeled footwear," he writes,...

Cognitive rehabilitation holds promise for schizophrenic brain function improvements

...normal people to remember things may be useful for schizophrenia patients as much in remembering information. This process may also start the return of normalcy in remembering and retaining information in the brain by these people suffering from the disease. Schizophrenia is a chronic severe disabling mental illn...

15 Anti-SARS Drugs Identified By China-Europe Team of Researchers

...ited States for clinical use in the 1960s to treat schizophrenia and other psychopathic diseases. Shen one of the researchers said that: ‘cinanserin could not form a SARS treatment on its own, but would need to be used in combination with other drugs’. As it is an old safe and cheap drug, it could be used widely ...

Schizophrenic patients may be given seroquel

...g mental illness. Some of the symptoms suffered by schizophrenia are hallucinations seen or heard, feelings of being persecuted, becoming withdrawn, and deranged behavior. Schizophrenia can be treated symptomatically, but only one in five patients have a chance of full recovery. Although most schizophrenic patient...

Mental health may deteriorate as early as in the teens

... also did not include severe mental illnesses like schizophrenia or autism etc....

Autism risks linked to birth factors

... more than five weeks, or have a family history of schizophrenia have a greater risk of being autistic than other b... says that family history of mental disorders like schizophrenia may be independent risk factor of autism, away from the risks caused by birth situations. The resul...

Music to help schizophrenic patients

... to standard care, music therapy helps people with schizophrenia improve their global state, mental state and social functioning. The Norwegian researchers said that the effectiveness of the music therapy were directly proportional to the number of sessions attended by the patients....

FDA warnings against use of antipsychotic drugs for elderly

...sidone, are approved for the clinical treatment of schizophrenia and mania. Use of these drugs to treat elderly patients with dementia and behavior disorders have resulted in a very high incidence of deaths. Studies conducted had showed that the drugs are as much as 1.6 times riskier than that of any other drugs. ...

Schizophrenics On Medication At An Increased Risk For Developing Diabetes

...y. Researchers evaluated 36 non-obese people with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder who were treated with clozapine (Clozaril), olanzapine (Zyprexa, Zydis), or risperidone (Risperdal). The participants followed a certain diet to maintain body weight and fasted before having a glucose tolerance test. Schiz...

Dads Age Found To Affect The Childs Risk for Schizophrenia

... may increase their child's risk // for developing schizophrenia later in life. Researchers based their analysis ...n Sweden between 1989 and 2001 with a diagnosis of schizophrenia or another non-affective psychosis. Researchers say they found a strong association between the fath...

Identifying The Risks Of Developing Schizophrenia

... in the womb may put infants at risk of developing schizophrenia later on in life.//Researchers say prenatal exposu...ncies. The study involved 64 people diagnosed with schizophrenia and 125 healthy people. Results of the study showed people whose mothers had antibodies to the flu v...

Factors That Might Increase The Risk Of Schizophrenia

...udy, only celiac disease occurring before onset of schizophrenia was considered. Most people, however, live with ce...te symptoms in the small proportion of people with schizophrenia who screen positively for celiac disease but do not show its classical symptoms, since gluten damage...

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