IGF-1 linked to negative symptoms in schizophrenia
Plasma levels of insulin-like growth factor -1 significantly fluctuate in the early stages of schizophrenia and the peptide may play a role in the pathophysiology of negative symptoms, say researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - March 20, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
White matter disruptions distinguish non-deficit schizophrenia
Disruption in white matter tracts can be considered a hallmark neurobiologic feature for distinguishing patients with deficit schizophrenia from those with non-deficit schizophrenia, suggest findings published in JAMA Psychiatry. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - March 20, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Internet-based CBT shows promise for auditory hallucinations
An internet-based cognitive–behavioral therapy program could help patients with psychosis and auditory hallucinations gain access to the intervention and its clinical benefits, US study findings suggest. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - March 19, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Schizophrenia cancer risk varies with disease duration, age at onset
The risk for cancer among patients with schizophrenia correlates inversely with the age of diagnosis and disease duration, say researchers, such that patients who develop late-onset schizophrenia have a lower cancer risk than the general population. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - March 15, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Asperger syndrome going undetected in patients with psychosis
The prevalence of Asperger syndrome is considerably higher in patients with first-episode psychosis than it is in the general population, researchers report. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - March 14, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Memory best predicts socio-occupational outcome in early psychiatric illness
Assessment of neuropsychological functioning is better than psychiatric symptoms at predicting later socio-occupational functioning in young psychiatric outpatients, researchers say. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - March 13, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Social impairment may be specific to early-onset schizophrenia
Children and adolescents with schizophrenia have greater social impairment and developmental abnormalities than those with bipolar disorder, while both sets of patients have difficulties adapting to school, Spanish study findings suggest. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - March 13, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Anger mediates delusion link to violence in psychotic patients
Anger due to delusions appears to be a key factor explaining violent behavior in patients with acute psychosis, findings from the East London First Episode Psychosis Study show. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - March 12, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Inflammatory marker for schizophrenia treatment resistance, severity
Levels of the inflammatory marker soluble tumor necrosis factor receptor 1 may be associated with severity of symptoms and treatment resistance in schizophrenia, say Brazilian scientists. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - March 9, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Treating substance abuse alone helps patients with co-occurring psychosis
Patients with co-occurring substance use disorder and psychiatric disorders may benefit from standard substance use disorder treatment, with the effects potentially lasting for several years, the results of a US study indicate. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - March 7, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Non-social cognitive deficits outweigh social ones in bipolar disorder
Patients with bipolar disorder have relatively greater impairments in non-social cognition than social cognition, whereas the opposite is true for patients with schizophrenia, researchers report. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - March 6, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Foreign-born adoptees most at risk for psychiatric disorders
Foreign-born adoptees have the highest rates of psychiatric disorders among migrants, show the results of a large, Danish population-based cohort study. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - March 6, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Neuropsychologic impairment largely present before psychosis onset
Much of the cognitive impairment associated with psychosis is present before the full onset of symptoms, say researchers, although there are some progressive neuropsychologic impairments that occur in the transition to psychosis. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - March 3, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Quitting cannabis may not alleviate psychosis
The amount of cannabis used does not appear to be associated with the severity of symptoms in patients with established psychosis, although the drug is linked to a small effect on psychosocial functioning, say UK scientists. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - March 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Symptom profile changes between first-episode and chronic schizophrenia
First-episode schizophrenia patients have more positive and fewer negative symptoms than chronic schizophrenia patients, and are more likely to report childhood sexual abuse, a team of researchers has discovered. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - February 27, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
