Psychosis risk following childhood abuse not down to genetics
Familial risk for psychosis does not account for the association between abuse during childhood and the later development of schizophrenia, a study suggests. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - January 17, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Severe infection associated with increased risk for psychotic illness
Hospital admission for infections in childhood is associated with an increased risk for being diagnosed with nonaffective psychosis later in life, research indicates. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - January 16, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
More evidence for glutamate dysregulation in schizophrenia
Levels of glutamine, but not glutamate, are elevated in the dorsal anterior cingulate of patients with established schizophrenia, say researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - January 15, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Distinct developmental trajectories for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia
Early diagnoses given to patients with a final diagnosis of bipolar disorder are markedly different from those given to patients with schizophrenia, a study shows. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - January 14, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Cortical thickness changes may contribute to early schizophrenia
Altered cortical thickness is related to the severity of positive symptoms in patients with first-episode schizophrenia, but not to the duration of untreated illness, report researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - January 14, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Early psychoeducation helps schizophrenia carers cope
Psychoeducation should be routinely offered to family members of schizophrenia patients as early as possible following diagnosis, findings from a mixed-method systematic review indicate. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - January 11, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Attenuated psychosis syndrome shows clinical significance
The community prevalence of attenuated psychosis syndrome is sufficient to make it a valid addition to the DSM-5, but only with revisions to the current criteria, findings from the BEAR Study show. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - January 9, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Long follow-up needed after acute or transient psychotic disorder diagnosis
The validity of the International Classification of Diseases-10 category of acute and transient psychotic disorders is debatable, say researchers who found that around half of patients moved to a different category within a few years. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - January 8, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Substance use ‘dramatically’ high in severe psychosis
Patients with severe psychotic disorders have a risk for smoking, heavy alcohol use, and other drug use that “far exceeds” that documented in patients with mild mental illness, shows a large study. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - January 7, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Negative symptoms and cognition ‘relatively independent’ in schizophrenia
Diminished expression, a core negative symptom in people with schizophrenia, is significantly correlated with an array of cognitive functions, research by a Hong Kong team shows. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - January 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Resting-state connectivity and metabolism dissociated in schizophrenia
A neuroimaging study suggests that patients with schizophrenia have difficulty deactivating the default mode network, rather than having increased absolute metabolic activity. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - January 2, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Schizophrenia brain marker matches genetic risk
Polygenic risk for schizophrenia correlates with neural inefficiency in the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, say researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - December 24, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Further boost for copy number variant role in schizophrenia
A large study confirms that 11 previously identified copy number variants are likely associated with schizophrenia. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - December 19, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Neurocognitive abnormalities ‘fundamental’ to schizophrenia
Rare copy-number variants that confer a high risk for schizophrenia or autism are associated with impaired cognition in carriers without psychiatric disorders, researchers report in Nature. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - December 19, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Diet may not fully explain cardiometabolic problems in bipolar disorder
The diet of patients with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia seems to be no worse than that of mentally healthy people, a study suggests. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - December 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
