Earliest roots of psychiatric disorders traced to stress effects on single gene
Babies whose mothers were exposed during pregnancy to stressors such as trauma, illness, alcohol, or drug abuse become susceptible to…
Faulty eye signaling may be to blame for schizoid hallucinations
By observing the eye movements of schizophrenia patients while they played a simple video game, a University of British Columbia…
Art therapy not so therapeutic for schizophrenics
For people with schizophrenia, UK national treatment guidelines recommend group art therapy to improve mental health and social functioning, but…
Schizophrenic computer models mental illness
A computer network that emulates schizophrenia is providing University of Texas at Austin researchers with important insights into the inner…
The High Cost Of Intelligence
The metabolic changes responsible for the evolution of human cognitive abilities indicate that the brain may have been pushed to…
Epigenetic Changes Found In Schizophrenics
For the first time, scientists from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) have discovered epigenetic changes (chemical changes…
Boffins Investigate Schizophrenia Genes
A new study in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B tries to uncover why several genes with strong associations…
Trauma The Major Cause of Schizophrenia?
Two psychiatric conferences in Europe have been told that child abuse can cause schizophrenia. The man behind the contentious theory,…