High-risk youths need help regardless of psychosis conversion
Young people at clinical high risk for psychosis often have poor outcomes even if they do not actually develop psychosis, a study shows. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - September 11, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Psychotic experiences ‘not always pathologic’
A study backs the existence of “healthy schizotypy,” in which psychotic experiences do not lead to mental illness. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - September 10, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Plasma marker inflames schizophrenia risk
Elevated plasma levels of the inflammatory molecule C-reactive protein may be a marker of an increased risk for developing schizophrenia, a study suggests. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - September 6, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Negative symptom clue to smoking in schizophrenia patients
Patients with schizophrenia may have a preponderance to cigarette smoking because it reduces negative symptom severity, researchers report. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - September 5, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Increased mortality in schizophrenia ‘not attributable to drug therapy’
The increased mortality risk observed among patients with severe psychiatric illness, including schizophrenia, does not seem to be attributable to use of psychopharmacologic therapy, study findings indicate. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - September 4, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Genetic score backs schizophrenia spectrum
Researchers report that polygenic scores derived from one well-characterized cohort of schizophrenia patients correspond to clinical diagnostic categories in another. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - September 3, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Schizophrenia genetics come into focus
A study in Nature Genetics illustrates the large impact of genetic variation on risk for schizophrenia. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - August 30, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Heritability of severe mental illness may be underestimated
Around one in three children of parents with a severe mental illness – schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depressive disorder – will develop such a disorder themselves by early adulthood, a meta-analysis has found. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - August 29, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
