Mood, metabolism, and self-medication might explain use patterns among this population, according to Rutgers research. Americans are drinking more caffeinated beverages than ever before, but…
The study utilized several existing datasets to explore the neural basis of various psychiatric disorders and discovered a common network for all of them. Nearly…
A study has identified a potential mechanism behind the delusions and hallucinations experienced by individuals with schizophrenia. An international team of researchers, including Sofya Kulikova,…
Fewer 12-hour rhythmic genes were present and many of those that remained showed a peak at an incorrect time. The researchers at the University of…
UCI researchers have discovered the crucial role of cilia in the striatum of the brain in time perception. A recent study from researchers at the…
Researchers have discovered a strong correlation between the development of schizophrenia and a rare form of a genetic variant known as tandem repeats. In our…
Psychotic disorders can increase your risk of dementia by 250% According to a review of the existing evidence conducted by University College London researchers, people…
Data from Columbia Mass Murder Database reveal psychosis and other serious psychiatric illness absent in the majority of perpetrators. Researchers examining 82 mass murders that…
Researchers examining post-mortem brains confirm a long-held hypothesis explaining neurotransmitter’s connection to a debilitating disorder. How does the brain chemical dopamine relate to schizophrenia? It is…
For the first time, researchers compared schizophrenia and frontotemporal dementia, two conditions that affect the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. Rarely do researchers…
A Mount Sinai stem cell model may be able to shed light on the complex biology behind certain psychiatric disorders. In order to map disease…
Scientists identify an autoantibody that may cause schizophrenia in some individuals. Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) have discovered that some people with…
People with serious mental illnesses, including schizophrenia, have greater rates of cardiovascular-related mortality than the general population, and that association has become stronger over recent…
Researchers studying a protein that is strongly linked to the psychiatric disorder are the first to determine the protein’s function, tracing it to a structure…
Multiple changes in brain cells during the first month of embryonic development may contribute to schizophrenia later in life, according to a new study by…
Cardiff University study is ‘major step forward’ in hunt for developmental origins of schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders. Scientists from Cardiff University have discovered new…
Scientists investigating the DNA outside our genes — the ‘dark genome’ — have discovered recently evolved regions that code for proteins associated with schizophrenia and…
Dedicated circuits evaluate uncertainty in the brain, preventing it from using unreliable information to make decisions. As we interact with the world, we are constantly…
