Suicidality clues reside in gray matter
Patients with psychotic disorders who attempt suicide have marked structural changes in their gray matter relative to those who do not show suicidal behavior, shows an analysis of the Bipolar-Schizophrenia Network for Intermediate Phenotypes cohort. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - August 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Ingestion sensors track psychiatric medication adherence
A digital health feedback system involving the ingestion of a digital sensor could help improve medication adherence in patients with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, study findings show. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - July 31, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Drug misuse boost to cognition refuted in schizophrenia
Analysis of the CATIE study participants has cast doubt on the purported link between illicit drug use and improved cognitive function in patients with schizophrenia. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - July 31, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Individual response determines psychosis impact
People who have persistent psychotic experiences but do not require medical care cope by normalizing their experiences, research suggests. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - July 30, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
IQ may forewarn of psychosis vulnerability
Men with psychosis tend to have lower than average IQ, along with evidence of learning difficulties in childhood, study findings show. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - July 26, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Cognitive therapy for at-risk mental state stigma fears allayed
Cognitive therapy may help to prevent people with an at-risk mental state from regarding their experiences too negatively, a study shows. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - July 25, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Psychotic symptoms warn of adolescent suicide attempt risk
Psychotic symptoms in adolescents signal a high risk for suicide attempts in adolescents, particularly in those with psychopathology, researchers report. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - July 24, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Childhood psychosis study reveals prevention opportunity
Researchers have published strong evidence from a large sample of adolescents that trauma leads to psychosis. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - July 23, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Phenotypic overlap across schizophrenia spectrum
The Bipolar-Schizophrenia Network on Intermediate Phenotypes consortium has found “scant” evidence that phenotypes cluster around the traditional schizophrenia-spectrum diagnoses. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - July 19, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Diabetes worsens schizophrenia cognitive impairment
Diabetes exacerbates cognitive impairment in patients with schizophrenia, particularly in immediate memory and attention, say researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - July 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Mode of onset prognostic in schizophrenia
The speed at which psychosis symptoms develop may be an important determinant of how long patients remain untreated, and their long-term outcomes, say researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - July 17, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Social cognition link to positive psychotic symptoms
Impaired social cognition in young people is a marker of psychotic, rather than affective, conditions and is specific to positive symptoms, research suggests. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - July 16, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Neurocognitive measures predict psychosis transition
Working memory and visual learning performance may be useful for predicting which individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis will transition to full psychosis, say researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - July 12, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Antipsychotics may counteract brain dysfunction
Susceptibility to psychosis is associated with impaired brain connectivity in regions involved with working memory, say researchers who found that antipsychotic treatment prevented this effect. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - July 11, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Scrutiny of schizophrenia end-of-life care needed
A population-based study shows that patients with schizophrenia are more likely to die in a nursing home than mentally healthy individuals, raising questions about the adequacy of palliative care they receive in this setting. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - July 10, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
