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  • Austin’s Myriad RBM at Work on Molecular Tests for Mental Ailments


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    Bernadette Tansey Words like “schizophrenia” and “bipolar disorder” have guided psychiatric treatment for decades, but they may be meaningless labels that mask a lack of real knowledge about the molecular events behind these related constellations of symptoms. That’s the critical view that greeted the ...
    18 hours ago

  • Why Rename Schizophrenia With "Psychosis Susceptibility Syndrome"?


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    Renaming "Schizophrenia" is the subject of discussion in a new Forum in the journal Psychological Medicine. Two authors propose a new name "Psychosis Susceptibility Syndrome" and experts comment. The authors of the article, Aadt Klijn and Bill George, from the Dutch Association of and for People with a Psychotic ...
    21 hours ago

  • Alzheimers, Schizophrenia, and Autism can now be studied with neurons derived from induced pluripotent stem cells


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    Difficult to study diseases such as Alzheimers, schizophrenia, and autism can now be probed more safely and effectively thanks to an innovative new method for obtaining mature brain cells called neurons from reprogrammed skin cells. According to Gong Chen, the Verne M. Willaman Chair in Life Sciences and professor of ...
    1 day ago

  • Alzheimers, Schizophrenia, and Autism Can be Studied with Neurons Reprogrammed from Skin Cells


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    Direct disease modeling could lead to customized treatments for individual patients based on their own genetic and cellular information. +Alzheimers Reading Room Difficult-to-study diseases such as Alzheimers, schizophrenia, and autism now can be probed more safely and effectively thanks to an innovative ...
    3 days ago

  • Sleep Mechanism Identified That Plays Role in Emotional Memory


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    Researchers identify the sleep mechanism which enables the brain to consolidate emotional memory. Additionally, they discovered a popular sleep medication heightens the response to and recollection of negative memories.
    4 days ago

  • Real Smiles, Fake Smiles: What’s the Difference?


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    Most would agree that smiles are contagious. But can there be a social benefit from a fake smile? New research suggests that not all smiles are created equal, that people respond differently to smiles that are not genuine. In fact, differing responses may reflect the unique social value of genuine smiles. “These ...
    4 days ago

  • Us Movie Review


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    Title: Us Director: Sam Hancock Starring: Alanna Ubach, Michael Navarra, Patrick Russell, Rolf Saxon, Barbara Niven A recent world premiere at the 16th annual Dances With Films, the Los Angeles-set “Us” offers up an unusual yet sympathetically pitched examination of mental illness through the rubric of a weird ...
    4 days ago

  • Will Schizophrenic Mother Harm Others?


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    My mom is schizophrenic. She refuses to take her meds. She hears voices and has conversations with them. She has been having fender benders in her car often and has alienated many of her friends. Years ago when she was first hospitalized and released, the Dr. asked me to come to out patient therapy sessions with her. ...
    5 days ago

  • In Schizophrenia, Epigenetic Changes Moderate Reality Distortion


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    A study in Schizophrenia Bulletin is among the first to indicate epigenetic changes related to immune function in schizophrenia. DNA methylation, a process involving the addition of a methyl group to the DNA without changing its sequence, can alter gene expression. Led by Dr. Jingyu Liu, the nine researchers analyzed ...
    5 days ago

  • Epigenetic Changes May Play A Role In Schizophrenia


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    Schizophrenia, a chronic and devastating disorder characterized by the breakdown of cognition processes and typical emotional and behavioral responses, has been affecting people throughout history. Scientists believe that several genes are associated with an increased risk of schizophrenia but that no single gene ...
    5 days ago

  • Brain Scans Reveal Internal Conflict During Jungs Word Association Test


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    Over 100 years ago psychologist Carl Gustav Jung penned his theory of complexes where he explained how unconscious psychological issues can be triggered by people, events, or Jung believed, through word association tests. New research in the Journal of Analytical Psychology is the first to reveal how modern brain ...
    5 days ago

  • Providing Mental Health Care Lowers Arrest Rates, Saves Money


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    Research from North Carolina State University, the Research Triangle Institute (RTI) and the University of South Florida shows that outpatient treatment of mental illness significantly reduces arrest rates for people with mental health problems and saves taxpayers money. "This study shows that providing mental health ...
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  • Treatment of Mental Illness Saves Your Taxpayer Dollars


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    Emerging research suggests outpatient treatment of mental illness significantly reduces arrest rates for people with mental health problems — and saves taxpayers money to boot. Researchers looked at the extent to which treating mental illness can keep people with mental health problems out of trouble with the law. ...
    6 days ago

  • Discordant patterns of bacterial translocation markers and implications for innate immune imbalances in schizophrenia


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    The origin of inflammation in psychiatric disorders is not well understood. The translocation of commensal microbiota across the gastrointestinal barrier can result in a persistent state of low-grade immune activation and/or inflammation. We measured serological surrogate markers of bacterial translocation (soluble ...
    6 days ago

  • Schizophrenia Research Dives Into the Petri Dish


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    Conditions that are difficult to study — such as schizophrenia, autism and Alzheimer’s — can now be analyzed safely and effectively with an innovative method designed to retrieve mature brain cells from reprogrammed skin cells, according to research published in the journal Stem Cell Research . “Obviously, ...
    1 week ago

  • Cannabis, schizophrenia & psychosis: The current evidence


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    http://georgefrench.co.uk/projects/paintings.html 1.0 Introduction Cannabis is the most widely used illicit drug in the world. Various preparations are available including traditional hash resin and marijuana as well as more potent products such as sinsemilla. The latter product caused some alarm in the media ...
    1 week ago

  • How Your Brain Circuits Become Miswired


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    How do the faulty brain circuits involved in mental disorders such as autism or retardation develop? Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have helped light the way to an answer with the discovery of a mechanism that guides the wiring of neural circuits in a developing brain. The researchers discovered that ...
    1 week ago

  • Am I Schizophrenic?


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    Hello, over the past few months I have been concerned with the progressing status of my mental health and believe I am experiencing some symptoms of schizophrenia. I am about to graduate Grade 12 and have recently been losing all interest in school work, physical activities and previous hobbies. The main concern I ...
    1 week ago

  • Spouse Refuses to Admit Mental Illness


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    18 months ago my wife had a nervous breakdown at work. She had psychotherapy and is on meds for anxiety/depression, but has never been able to return to work. Since that time, she has been having conversations with herself, sometimes out loud, usually not, that she subsequently believes to have actually occurred. As a ...
    1 week ago

  • Treatment Clues For Schizophrenia Suggested By Neurochemical Traffic Signals


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    Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have uncovered important clues about a biochemical pathway in the brain that may one day expand treatment options for schizophrenia. The study, published online in the journal Molecular Pharmacology, was led by faculty within the department of pharmacology and ...
    1 week ago

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