Acute schizophrenia shows increased NMDA-R antibody prevalence
Patients with acute schizophrenia have an increased prevalence of N-methyl-D-aspartate glutamate receptor antibodies that is distinct from that seen in NMDA-R encephalitis, scientists have found. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - January 31, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Bipolar pedigree endophenotypes found
Researchers have found cognitive endophenotypes in a single extended family showing linkage of bipolar disorder to a risk locus on chromosome 4. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - January 30, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Birthweight extremes influence psychotic symptom severity
Both high and low birthweight increase the severity of psychotic symptoms, particularly disorganized and negative symptoms, research indicates. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - January 30, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Gesture imitation impaired in schizophrenia patients
Schizophrenia patients have impaired gesture imitation, especially when the imitation depends on working memory and involves multiple actions, show study results. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - January 29, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Semantic priming abnormalities differ between bipolar disorder and schizophrenia
Patients with bipolar disorder have decreased semantic priming, the results of a preliminary study indicate. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - January 24, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Adolescent declines in cognitive performance predict later psychosis
Adolescents and young adults experiencing relative declines in cognitive performance have an increased risk for later psychosis, with a decline in verbal ability between 13 and 18 years of age a strong predictor, conclude researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - January 24, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Impulsiveness linked to severe clinical features in bipolar disorder
Researchers have confirmed that trait-impulsiveness is associated with bipolar disorder and provide additional evidence of it being linked to a more severe clinical expression of the disease. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - January 23, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Orbitofrontal cortex abnormality characteristic of deficit schizophrenia
The orbitofrontal cortex appears to play an important role in the development of severe negative symptoms in people with deficit schizophrenia, researchers suggest. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - January 23, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Tell tale neurologic soft signs for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
Neurologic soft signs can differentiate schizophrenia from major depression but not bipolar disorder, study findings indicate. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - January 22, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Neurotrophin linked to cognition in psychosis patients
Plasma levels of brain derived neurotrophic factor are associated with cognition in patients with first-episode psychosis, researchers report. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - January 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Dopamine synthesis increased in patients at high risk for psychosis
UK study results show that patients at ultra-high risk for psychosis have elevated dopamine synthesis capacity in the dorsal striatum. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - January 17, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
MPAs may reflect genetic risk for schizophrenia
Minor physical anomalies are more common in schizophrenia patients and their unaffected siblings than in mentally healthy individuals without a family history of the disorder, research shows. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - January 16, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Pneumonia risk increased in schizophrenia
Patients with schizophrenia are at an increased risk for developing pneumonia, results from a large Taiwanese study show. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - January 16, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Spirituality associated with poor mental health
Individuals who describe themselves as spiritual are more likely to have used drugs, or be dependent on drugs, and also more likely to have generalized anxiety and neurotic disorders than those who are neither spiritual nor religious, research shows. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - January 15, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Cancer risk not increased in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder
Results from a large UK study suggest that people with severe mental illness are not at increased risk for developing common cancers. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - January 11, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
