News tagged with schizophrenia
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Homicide by mentally ill has risen in England and Wales
The number of people killed by individuals suffering from mental illness in England and Wales increased between 1997 and 2005, figures released today show. The rise occurred in people who were not under mental health care ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 28, 2009 |
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Scientists try to stop schizophrenia in its tracks
(AP) -- She was sociable and happy in high school. But in college that changed abruptly: Depressed and withdrawn, some days she couldn't get out of bed. And that wasn't all.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 26, 2009 |
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Major NIMH research project to test approaches to altering the course of schizophrenia
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is launching a large-scale research project to explore whether using early and aggressive treatment, individually targeted and integrating a variety of different therapeutic ...
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Jul 21, 2009 |
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Study shows that a combination of common genetic variations can lead to schizophrenia
A multi-national group of investigators, including a scientist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has discovered that nearly a third of the genetic basis of schizophrenia may be attributed ...
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Evidence that cognitive therapy is of no value in schizophrenia
Research co-led by an academic at the University of Hertfordshire, concludes that Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is of no value in schizophrenia and has limited effect on depression.
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Jun 26, 2009 |
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Alterations in brain's white matter key to schizophrenia, study shows
Schizophrenia, a chronic and debilitating disorder marked in part by auditory hallucinations and paranoia, can strike in late adolescence or early adulthood at a time when people are ready to stand on their own two feet as ...
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Jun 22, 2009 |
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Study finds cancer is the second most frequent cause of death in individuals with schizophrenia
People with schizophrenia die from cancer four times as often as people in the general population. That was the conclusion of a new study published in the August 1, 2009 issue of Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the Am ...
Jun 22, 2009 |
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