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Marijuana can Trigger Psychotic Symptoms, New Study Finds

...'Souza had intended to study marijuana's impact on schizophrenics in more patients, the study was stopped prematurel...hiatry at King's College. Experts theorized that schizophrenics may mistakenly judge the drug's pleasurable effects to outweigh any negatives. Understanding how m...

Sway Schizophrenics With Incentives to Avail Regular Treatment

...// has come up with a strategy, designed to entice schizophrenics to take their medicines. Patients who rely on outreach services may have huge numbers of them who do not consume medicines methodically. Schizophrenics could be cajoled into taking their medication by rewarding them, say researchers, which would re...

Next time somebody complains about your strange behavior, take it as a compliment

...re the creative thinking processes of schizotypes, schizophrenics and normal control subjects. In the first experime...tively suggest new uses for the objects, while the schizophrenics and average subjects performed similarly to one another. In the second experiment, the three groups...

Cognitive rehabilitation holds promise for schizophrenic brain function improvements

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of the symptoms suffered by schizophrenics are hallucinations seen or heard, feelings of being persecuted, becoming withdrawn, aggression and deranged behavior.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

Schizophrenics On Medication At An Increased Risk For Developing Diabetes

A recent study shows , schizophrenics treated with clozapine and olanzapine may be at an increased risk for developing type 2 diabetes. Patients taking these antipsychotic agents resisted insulin // and had impairment of glucose effectiveness compared with patients taking another drug un...

An insight about Schizophrenia

...r facial expressions. Other research has suggested schizophrenics may have problems recognizing faces and facial exp...group of people without psychiatric disorder. The schizophrenics were found to have significantly less gray matter in the fusiform gyrus than both the people without...

Gene glitches connecting pot with Schizophrenia

... average age of 40.When they compared this gene in schizophrenics with the same gene in 130 normal men and woman of ...abuse, which could mean the marijuana receptors in schizophrenics are far more active than they should be. Ujike stressed there is no evidence yet these genetic abnor...

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