Schizophrenia News and Research

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Study reveals first complete wiring diagram of an animal's nervous system

In a study published online today in Nature, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine describe the first complete wiring diagram of the nervous system of an animal, the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans, used by scientists worldwide as a model organism.

4 Jul 2019

Neuroscientists control visual behavior of a mouse with single-cell precision

For the first time, a team of neuroscientists from Columbia University have controlled a visual behavior of a mouse by activating a few neurons in its visual cortex.

4 Jul 2019

Study: Treatment of psychosis can be targeted to specific genetic mutation

Treatment of psychosis can be targeted to a specific genetic mutation in patients with psychotic disorders, according to a study in Biological Psychiatry, published by Elsevier.

4 Jul 2019

Targeted treatment offers symptom relief for patients with psychosis

Treatment for individuals who experience psychosis, such as hallucinations and delusions as a result of a psychiatric illness, can be targeted to a specific structural mutation, according to a study published by researchers from McLean Hospital and other institutions in the journal Biological Psychiatry.

3 Jul 2019

New study finds how visual system segregates moving objects from their backgrounds

Visual motion is an important source of information for separating objects from their backgrounds.

2 Jul 2019

Exploring how schizophrenia and depression are related to drug consumption

Students of the Medicine Degree at the CEU UCH University in Castellón, Iván Echeverria and Carlos Galera-Román, and the student of the International Doctorate School of the CEU, Alejandro Fuertes-Saiz, have presented two pieces of research at the third edition of the International Congress of Dual Disorders, which was held in Madrid on June 19-22.

27 Jun 2019

New study may explain distinct speech processing functions of left and right brain

In the 1860s, French physician Paul Broca published his findings that the brain's speech production center was located in the left hemisphere

25 Jun 2019

Better care needed for people experiencing first manic episode, say researchers

Better care and more research into treatments for people experiencing a first manic episode are urgently needed, according to researchers at the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre.

25 Jun 2019

Scientists discover new drug target for chemically induced Parkinson's disease

More than three decades ago, scientists discovered that a chemical found in a synthetic opioid, MPTP, induced the onset of a form of Parkinson's disease.

23 Jun 2019

Gene associated with increased risk of cannabis abuse

New research from the Danish psychiatric project, iPSYCH, shows that a specific gene is associated with an increased risk of cannabis abuse. The gene is the source of a so-called nicotine receptor in the brain, and people with low amounts of this receptor have an increased risk of cannabis abuse.

18 Jun 2019

Georgia researcher receives grant to develop models to better predict mental health disorders

Vince Calhoun, Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at Georgia State University and director of the Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science, has received nearly $4 million from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Mental Health to develop new models that use brain imaging and genomic data to better predict mental health disorders

18 Jun 2019

Research opens up new avenues for understanding the causes of schizophrenia

Schizophrenia causes hallucinations and memory or cognition problems inter alia. This psychiatric illness affects 0.5% of the general population, and it may be related to genetic abnormalities of chromosome 22, known as 22q11 deletion syndrome.

17 Jun 2019

New machine-learning method more precisely quantifies a known indicator for psychosis

A machine-learning method discovered a hidden clue in people's language predictive of the later emergence of psychosis -- the frequent use of words associated with sound.

14 Jun 2019

$10 million endowed gift supports psychosis research efforts

Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences has received a $10 million endowed gift to fund translational research, support clinical programs and create an endowed chair within the department.

13 Jun 2019

Researchers develop first blood-brain barrier chip using stem cells

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles have, for the first time, duplicated a patient's blood-brain barrier, creating a human BBB chip with stem cells, which can be used to develop personalized medicine and new techniques to research brain disorders.

13 Jun 2019