... BioMed Central’s journal BMC Psychiatry. In addition to the hallucinations that often characterize schizophrenia, patients also have major problems with apathy and lack of motivation. The dopamine ...
... risk for violence could be linked to psychotic symptoms.
The researchers identified a subgroup of schizophrenia patients with a history of childhood conduct problems who were more likely to be ...
... fingerprint" in the blood (due to its accessibility). They compared protein profiles of schizophrenia patients and controls using mass spectrometry and identified two peaks highlighting a significant ...
... shown that a genetic alteration near the site of Nrg-1 cleavage, which was detected in schizophrenia patients and which increases the risk of this disease, results in incorrect cleavage of Nrg-1 by ...
... earlier studies – as well as a subtle general increase in structural genomic variants in schizophrenia patients compared with controls. A second study also being published in Nature today confirms ...
Researchers from the University of Newcastle are investigating a new way to help schizophrenia patients develop their communication and social skills. PhD student Kathryn McCabe is studying the eye ...
... patients and 700 controls. And what surprised us is that roughly 1 percent of schizophrenia patients harbor these genomic deletions."
Changes in these three genes are rare but seem to dramatically ...
... type - termed a gamma frequency oscillation - which has previously been shown to be altered in schizophrenia patients.
They examined the function of individual brain neurons in rats and applied ...
... some anti-inflammatory medications have already been studied, with limited success, in schizophrenia patients, a new generation of these drugs that more specifically target activated microglia have ...
... task become more difficult, weaker cortical function associated with that variant was seen only in the schizophrenia patients, not in controls. While variations in COMT did not influence cortical ...
... synchronously active network when the mind is allowed to wander.
Whitfield-Gabrieli found that in the schizophrenia patients, the default system was both hyperactive and hyperconnected during rest, ...
... , or SNPs for short, to see if any particular SNPs were more frequently carried by schizophrenia patients than unaffected people.
They found three SNPs strongly associated with delusions, and all ...
... to schizophrenia, we will have to sequence the entire genome of each schizophrenia patient," says Goldstein. "That is a tremendous amount of work, but it is the only way we will be able to find these ...
... The changes described in this study were common to both studies. This is the biggest cohort of schizophrenia patients used for this type of study to date.
This is part of a larger study looking at ...
... in bottom-up processing of visual information, increased when the hollow faces were presented. In the patients with schizophrenia, this connectivity change did not occur. These results suggest that ...
