Cardiometabolic risk prevention opportunity in early schizophrenia
esearchers have found that cardiometabolic risk in patients with schizophrenia is heightened in those with established disease, suggesting a need for early intervention in those presenting with their first episode. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - February 26, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Visual processing clue to schizophrenia risk
An element of the event-related potential response to visual stimuli is impaired in patients with prodromal symptoms of schizophrenia, research suggests. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - February 22, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Altered fatty acid brain concentrations may contribute to schizophrenia
Researchers have found subtle lipid disturbances in the prefrontal cortex of patients with schizophrenia, which may play a role in the pathology of the disease. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - February 21, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Mismatch between social anxiety, cognition in schizophrenia
Patients with schizophrenia who also have social anxiety disorder actually have less impairment in social cognition than individuals with schizophrenia alone, research shows. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - February 21, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Modifiable risk factors found for violence in schizophrenia
Researchers have identified modifiable risk factors for increased violence in people with psychosis that could prove important for risk assessment and management. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - February 20, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
First-episode psychosis hits men hard
Men with first-episode psychosis have more severe symptoms than women and are less likely to achieve recovery, say Danish researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - February 19, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Substance use common in young mental health patients
Young people using mental healthcare services have a high frequency of alcohol, nicotine, and cannabis use, Australian study results show. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - February 15, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Schizophrenia dampens volition
Patients with schizophrenia and negative symptoms are less likely than mentally healthy people to increase their efforts for higher levels of reward, research shows. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - February 14, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Poor facial recognition hints at schizophrenia risk in children
Impaired facial emotion recognition may suggest an increased vulnerability to schizophrenia in children, and may therefore represent a target for early intervention, researchers report. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - February 13, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Menopausal brain changes support estrogen’s protective role in schizophrenia
Researchers have found morphological differences between pre- and postmenopausal women with schizophrenia that support a protective role for estrogen in the psychiatric disorder. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - February 12, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Familial psychosis risk linked to prefrontal dopamine dysfunction
People at familial risk for psychosis have attenuated dopamine stress modulation in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, according to a recent in vivo imaging study. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - February 8, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Parental psychosis affects early schizophrenia risk factors
Parental psychosis alters the impact that individual biological risk factors during pregnancy and birth have on future schizophrenia risk, say Finnish researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - February 7, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Ethnicity strongly linked to treatment resistance in schizophrenia
Patients with schizophrenia are at heightened risk for being resistant to treatment if they are White European, study findings reveal. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - February 6, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Social cognition and negative symptoms scores reveal schizophrenia subgroups
Schizophrenia patients may be classified into three distinct subgroups, based on levels of social cognition and negative symptoms, that are associated with differences in community integration and quality of life, US study findings suggest. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - February 5, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Poor diet provides clue to metabolic abnormalities in schizophrenia
Patients with schizophrenia commonly have a poor diet, say UK researchers who believe this may partly account for the increased incidence of metabolic abnormalities in these patients. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - February 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
