Creating websites is one of the ways self-help support groups could reach young people with a mental illness
Creating websites and placing posters in schools are just some of the ways self-help support groups (SHSGs) could reach young people with a mental illness, according to a study just completed at the University of Western Sydney.
Dr […]
‘Schizophrenia’ falsely groups people with a wide range of problems together
Schizophrenia has been attributed to everything from genetic predisposition, brain chemistry, sufferers’ home environment and even cat-borne viruses, but no consistent causal pattern has ever been identified. As a result, treatment outcomes for today’s patients are not very different from those of patients treated 100 […]
Early humans developed a taste for sea food
"Schizophrenia is the price that homo sapiens pay for language."
That is the controversial theory of one leading psychiatrist.
Professor Tim Crow believes that the difference in the development of the human brain from the primate brain - which allows us to process thought and speech - is linked to […]
David McCormick
New Haven, Conn. — Inhibitory systems are essential for controlling the pattern of activity in the cortex, which has important implications for the mechanisms of cortical operation, according to a Yale School of Medicine study in Neuron.
The findings demonstrate the inhibitory network is central to controlling not only the amplitude, extent and duration of […]
Test online your genetic disposition to depression
RESEARCHERS at the University of Manchester are testing our genetic disposition to depression with a unique internet test.
The team, based at the Neuroscience and Psychiatry Unit (NPU), in the Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, has set up a website ( http://www.newmood.co.uk ) where would-be volunteers can see how […]
Francine Benes
Belmont, MA - Researchers at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital report being able to produce cellular changes in rats’ brains similar to those seen in humans with schizophrenia by manipulating a precise area of the animals’ amygdala, a region critical to emotional stress and learning.
In a paper published in the online early edition of the Proceedings […]
The studied area of the brain called the hippocampus, which is important for learning
DALLAS - Aug. 17, 2005 - Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a biochemical switch that affects how neurons fire in a part of the brain associated with learning, findings that may aid in understanding schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease.
[…]
Better understanding the human brain could lead to breakthroughs in the prevention and cure of Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s disease, as well as new treatments for depression or schizophrenia
11/08/2005 - Seven member countries of the OECD’s Global Science Forum have launched a project to promote international collaboration among scientists and create new ways of sharing and […]
Malnutrition can harm mental as well as physical health
Babies born during famine are at higher risk of schizophrenia, a study has found.
The Chinese famine of 1959-1961 increased the risk of schizophrenia in later life from 0.84% to 2.15%, Shanghai researchers calculated.
It is not clear whether it is lack of food in general or […]
Investigadores australianos anunciaram esta terça-feira progressos no desenvolvimento da primeira análise biológica, que recorre à emissão de sons, para diagnosticar pessoas com esquizofrenia.
Segundo cientistas da Universidade de Nova Gales do Sul, em Sydney, uma análise das reacções dos pacientes a sons permitirá realizar diagnósticos e tratamentos mais precoces da doença.
Actualmente, os psiquiatras identificam esta perturbação […]
Response to sounds: an early diagnostic tool for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
Key research from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) could lead to the first early diagnostic tool for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
"At the moment we don’t have any biological tests for these conditions," said one of the authors, UNSW Associate Professor of Psychiatry, […]