By Irfan Yusuf, September 21, 2005
I had just parked my car near the intersection of Elizabeth and Cleveland Streets in Strawberry Hills. It was almost midday, and I was meeting a colleague for lunch at our favourite Lebanese restaurant.
He was standing near a shopping trolley containing bottles of water and different kids of soaps. He […]
John KrystaL, M.D.
New Haven, Conn. — Yale School of Medicine researchers published a report this month in the Archives of General Psychiatry that highlights the interplay of two brain signaling systems, glutamate and dopamine, in psychosis and cognitive function.
The study helps resolve a long-standing research debate between the “dopamine hypothesis” and the “glutamate hypothesis” or […]
These images show the different involvement of the right brain hemisphere during creative tasks performed by schizotypes, schizophrenics and normal controls. In the first image, the orange area indicates how much more activation took place in the right hemispheres of the schizotypes versus the normal controls. The second image illustrates an even greater difference […]
Faith Dickerson, lead author of this study
People with serious mental illness have higher rates of type 2 diabetes than the general population, yet their knowledge of diabetes was generally poor and significantly lower than people without mental illness, according to a new study.
This finding “suggests that more education about type 2 diabetes is needed […]