New guidelines have been developed for the treatment of schizophrenia through a collaborative effort of international experts ...

For the first time, scientists have confirmed a neurobiochemical link between dopamine and cognitive flexibility, according ...

Both bipolar disorder and schizophrenia can cause hallucinations and delusions, but symptoms are more severe in schizophrenia. Bipolar disorder involves shifts in energy and mood. Bipolar disorder ...

For 35 years, the FDA has placed onerous restrictions on the only drug it has ever approved for treatment-resistant schizophrenia, and the only one it recognizes as reducing the risk of suicide. This ...

Cannabis may increase the risk of schizophrenia, particularly in people with a genetic predisposition to the condition. Schizophrenia is a mental health condition that alters how people think ...

Successful treatment for schizophrenia involves a mix of medication and therapy. People who do both are less likely to have a relapse or wind up in the hospital. Studies show this treatment ...

The GBI also issued a Mattie’s Call, Georgia's emergency missing alert for disabled or elderly persons, for Sistrunk, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder two years ago and ...

PET has therefore been used to gain insight into neurochemical pathways (1,2). Patients with schizophrenia show heightened dopaminergic transmission leading to synaptic dysregulation (3,4), which is ...

Mental disorders like schizophrenia are currently diagnosed by physicians/psychiatrists through clinical assessment and their evaluation of patient's self-reported experiences as the illness emerges.