Schizophrenia News and Research

Latest Schizophrenia News and Research

Schizophrenics more likely to die from cardiovascular disease and cancer

A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that the average life expectancy of men and women with schizophrenia is 15 years and 12 years shorter respectively than for those who do not suffer from the disease.

22 Jan 2013

Early treatment during primary HIV infection shows promise

Two papers in The New England Journal of Medicine suggest that starting antiretroviral treatment early after HIV infection is diagnosed may improve patients’ immune response, boosting the initial recovery of the immune system and delaying progression of the disease.

21 Jan 2013

Stress in adolescence can cause severe mental illness in young adulthood

Working with mice, Johns Hopkins researchers have established a link between elevated levels of a stress hormone in adolescence — a critical time for brain development — and genetic changes that, in young adulthood, cause severe mental illness in those predisposed to it.

18 Jan 2013

Pneumonia risk increased in schizophrenia

Patients with schizophrenia are at an increased risk for developing pneumonia, results from a large Taiwanese study show.

17 Jan 2013

Dopamine synthesis increased in patients at high risk for psychosis

UK study results show that patients at ultra-high risk for psychosis have elevated dopamine synthesis capacity in the dorsal striatum.

17 Jan 2013

Pneumonia risk increased in schizophrenia

Patients with schizophrenia are at an increased risk for developing pneumonia, results from a large Taiwanese study show.

16 Jan 2013

MPAs may reflect genetic risk for schizophrenia

Minor physical anomalies are more common in schizophrenia patients and their unaffected siblings than in mentally healthy individuals without a family history of the disorder, research shows.

16 Jan 2013

Fifteen established scientists to receive NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Grants

The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (formerly NARSAD, the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression) announced the latest recipients of its highly competitive NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Grants.

16 Jan 2013

Reviva Pharmaceuticals completes enrollment in RP5063 phase 2 trial for schizophrenia

Reviva Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a privately held drug discovery and development company, today announces completion of patient enrollment in the phase 2 clinical trial of RP5063 for the treatment of schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder.

16 Jan 2013

Vanderbilt University, AstraZeneca partner to identify candidate drugs for major brain diseases

Today, AstraZeneca and Vanderbilt University announced they have signed a research collaboration agreement to identify candidate drugs aimed at treating psychosis and other neuropsychiatric symptoms associated with major brain diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia.

16 Jan 2013

Genetics researchers identify 25 additional copy number variations associated with autism

Genetics researchers have identified 25 additional copy number variations (CNVs)—missing or duplicated stretches of DNA—that occur in some patients with autism. These CNVs, say the researchers, are "high impact": although individually rare, each has a strong effect in raising an individual's risk for autism.

16 Jan 2013

Study explains how Timothy syndrome mutation causes wiring defects that underlie cognition

A new finding in neuroscience for the first time points to a developmental mechanism linking the disease-causing mutation in an autism-related disorder, Timothy syndrome, and observed defects in brain wiring, according to a study led by scientist Ricardo Dolmetsch and published online yesterday in Nature Neuroscience.

16 Jan 2013

Viewpoints: Health law's 'sticker shock;' Changing Medicare eligibility age is not a simple solution

President Obama said a fair bit during the fiscal-cliff negotiations - speaking for 45 minutes in one 50-minute meeting, for example - but today let's zero in on the claim he kept repeating: "We don't have a spending problem. We have a health-care problem." For our money - and yours - those are two of the most remarkable sentences our Orator in Chief has ever strung together.

15 Jan 2013

Monitor white blood cell count in pertussis infants

Researchers say that taking early and repeat white blood cell counts could help determine which children with pertussis are at highest risk for death.

14 Jan 2013

Cancer risk not increased in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder

Results from a large UK study suggest that people with severe mental illness are not at increased risk for developing common cancers.

14 Jan 2013

No link between gas cooking and asthma, allergies

Research suggests that exposure to gas cooking does not increase a child’s risk for asthma and other allergic conditions.

14 Jan 2013

Scientists track electrical signals in the brain region linked to spatial awareness

Research at the University of Edinburgh tracked electrical signals in the part of the brain linked to spatial awareness.

11 Jan 2013

Prion filtration tested for red blood cell transfusions

Red blood cell prion filtration does not increase the risk for alloimmunization or transfusion reactions, suggest results from the largest safety study to date.

9 Jan 2013

Cerebrospinal fluid IL-6 increased in schizophrenia

Cerebrospinal fluid levels of interleukin-6 are significantly increased in patients with schizophrenia and major depressive disorder, Japanese study results show.

9 Jan 2013

Abnormal fixation may contribute to deficits in face perception in AMD patients

Abnormalities of eye movement and fixation may contribute to difficulty in perceiving and recognizing faces among older adults with age-related macular degeneration (AMD), suggests a study "Abnormal Fixation in Individuals with AMD when Viewing an Image of a Face" appearing in the January issue of Optometry and Vision Science, official journal of the American Academy of Optometry.

9 Jan 2013