Say a person with schizophrenia starts hearing a cacophony of voices telling him that he is a bad person; he could look at his psych dog to see what it is doing.
In a massive gene hunt, three groups of international schizophrenia researchers have zeroed in on several mutations that harbor some of the secrets of schizophrenia.
It may be because it makes them feel better. Nicotine is known to transiently improve several neurological and cognitive impairments in patients with schizophrenia.
There is ongoing research into whether cognitive and executivefunctions can be restored in those with brain damage from traumaticbrain injuries or schizophrenia.
This new study, featured in the Archives of General Psychiatry, aimed to examine the association of neonatal vitamin D status and incidence of schizophrenia.
The technique has been used to explore the neural circuitry of people suffering from depression, dyslexia, schizophrenia, and a host of other neurological conditions.
The cohort of their study included 69 subjects with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder, aged 18 to 60, and all on antipsychotic medications and stable.
When he mentioned his profession, one man wanted Duckworth's opinion on his struggles with depression; another asked for advice on a family member's schizophrenia.
It seems that, by looking at the length of the telomeres on specific Chromosomes, we can actually predict pretty much how long certain cells can successfully go on dividing.
So after each division, the telomeres get shorter and one of the things that may happen after a while is that pieces of the genes themselves get broken off the Chromosomes.