Plasma marker inflames schizophrenia risk
Elevated plasma levels of the inflammatory molecule C-reactive protein may be a marker of an increased risk for developing schizophrenia, a study suggests. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - September 6, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Acute manic episodes linked to increased edema risk
Bipolar disorder patients admitted to hospital with a manic episode are at an increased risk for lower limb edema, compared with their peers with depressive or non-affective psychosis episodes, study findings show. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - September 5, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Negative symptom clue to smoking in schizophrenia patients
Patients with schizophrenia may have a preponderance to cigarette smoking because it reduces negative symptom severity, researchers report. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - September 5, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Dementia risk for bipolar disorder patients
Patients with bipolar disorder are at increased risk for developing dementia, both pre-senile and senile, a study of a nationwide dataset in Taiwan confirms. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - September 4, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Increased mortality in schizophrenia ‘not attributable to drug therapy’
The increased mortality risk observed among patients with severe psychiatric illness, including schizophrenia, does not seem to be attributable to use of psychopharmacologic therapy, study findings indicate. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - September 4, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Bipolar patients struggle with emotional distraction
Patients with bipolar disorder struggle with cognitive tasks in the face of emotional distractions, a study shows. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - September 3, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Genetic score backs schizophrenia spectrum
Researchers report that polygenic scores derived from one well-characterized cohort of schizophrenia patients correspond to clinical diagnostic categories in another. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - September 3, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Improved pediatric bipolar screen unveiled
Researchers have developed a screening instrument for detecting bipolar disorder in children and adolescents from the general population. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - August 30, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Schizophrenia genetics come into focus
A study in Nature Genetics illustrates the large impact of genetic variation on risk for schizophrenia. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - August 30, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Blood biomarkers predict suicidality
Researchers have found possible blood biomarkers for suicidal behavior that could help identify psychiatric patients at risk. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - August 29, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Heritability of severe mental illness may be underestimated
Around one in three children of parents with a severe mental illness – schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depressive disorder – will develop such a disorder themselves by early adulthood, a meta-analysis has found. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - August 29, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Personality may be key to genetics of bipolar disorder
People with bipolar disorder vary significantly from their unaffected relatives, and from healthy controls, on several measures of personality, a study shows. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - August 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Inflammatory status upregulated in first-episode schizophrenia
Patients with first-episode schizophrenia exhibit upregulation of key proinflammatory molecules, study findings show. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - August 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Impulsivity may be vulnerability marker for bipolar disorder
People with bipolar disorder type I are significantly more impulsive than the general population, while their siblings show an intermediate level of impulsivity, a study by Brazilian researchers shows. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - August 27, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Negative symptoms ‘key to recovery’ in first-episode psychosis
The severity of negative symptoms in people with first-episode psychosis is a strong determinant of subsequent recovery, a long-term study has shown. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - August 27, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
