... are most at risk of being compromised by drug-induced psychosis or schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia symptoms include "negative" ones that involve the loss of normal behaviors, including social ...
... in a molecular brain pathway activated by marijuana may contribute to the cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the ...
... to behavioral disturbances in laboratory animals that bear a striking similarity to some of the symptoms of schizophrenia. This syndrome can be corrected by administering anti-psychotic medicines. ...
... —and possibly treatment." Contrary to common belief, a split personality is not one of the potential symptoms of schizophrenia. "Persons affected with the illness, however, may exhibit changes in ...
... reporting that negative symptoms are less responsive to treatment than other symptoms of schizophrenia. It is possible that longer-term treatment is required for negative symptoms to respond to ...
... gene affects the brain's neural wiring and molecular signaling pathways to produce the symptoms of schizophrenia." This finding could ultimately help scientists develop new or improved treatments for ...
... of individual brain neurons in rats and applied ketamine, a drug which mimics many of the symptoms of schizophrenia in humans and animals and which is also a common recreational drug. They found that ...
... (MGH) is giving what may be the first look at how interactions between genes underlie a key symptom of schizophrenia, impaired working memory. Functional imaging studies reveal how a combination of ...
... of the study's 13 authors. "We think this could help to explain the cognitive and psychological symptoms of schizophrenia."
Gabrieli added that he hopes the research might lead to ways of predicting ...
... mouse neural stem cells caused similar defects and produced behavioral changes such as hyperactivity, a symptom of schizophrenia in mice models of the disease. "Giving a chemical inhibitor of GSK3B to ...
... for Treatment
"This discovery opens a new direction for treating the devastating cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia," Penzes said. "There is currently no treatment for that. It suggests that if ...
... National Institutes of Health to lead a nationwide effort to develop an optimal early intervention strategy for treating people experiencing a first-episode of the psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia.
... of variability in the clinical presentations of patients with each disorder. In addition, many symptoms of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are traits that are present in the healthy population but ...
... symptoms."
Risperidone long-acting therapy (RLAT, or RISPERDAL® CONSTA®), for the treatment of symptoms of schizophrenia, is one of several long-acting injectable products available. RISPERDAL ...
