Schizophrenia News

A top adult psychiatrist and the co-founders of two distinct pharmaceutical start-up companies from the Marquette University College of Health Sciences headline the next Marquette Presents forum: "Schizophrenia-New Hope for Effective Treatment Through Drug Development." The forum will take place in the third-floor ballroom of the Alumni memorial ... (more)

Overexpression of a gene associated with schizophrenia causes classic symptoms of the disorder that are reversed when gene expression returns to normal, scientists report.

OMS824 selectively inhibits phosphodiesterase 10 , an enzyme expressed in areas of the brain linked to a wide range of diseases that affect cognition, including Huntington's disease and schizophrenia.

Positive Trial Results for Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and H. Lundbeck A/S 's Abilify Maintena in Schizophrenia Staying up-to-date has never been simpler.

We compared the time to discontinuation due to lack of tolerability over 24 weeks in patients suffering from schizophrenia treated with pomaglumetad methionil or standard of care .

In a bit of good news today, the American Cancer Society reports that as of Wednesday, its 100th birthday, two out of three people who are diagnosed with cancer today will survive for at least five years, and cancer rates in the U.S. are down 20 percent overall since the 1990s.

They genetically engineered mice so they could turn up levels of neuregulin-1 to mimic high levels found in some patients then return levels to normal, said Dr.

This image show, from left: Lin Mei, M.D., Ph.D., Dong-Min Yin, Ph.D. and Yong-Jun Chen, Ph.D., Medical College of Georgia.

In 2008 researchers from the University of Southern Denmark showed that the drug thioridazine, which has previously been used to treat schizophrenia , is also a powerful weapon against antibiotic-resistant bacteria such as staphylococci .

The relationship between the heritable risk for schizophrenia and low intelligence has not been clear.

In 2008 researchers from the University of Southern Denmark showed that the drug thioridazine, which has previously been used to treat schizophrenia, is also a powerful weapon against antibiotic-resistant bacteria such as staphylococci .

The relationship between the heritable risk for schizophrenia and low intelligence has not been clear.

Aripiprazole belongs to the group of medications known as antipsychotics . It is used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

Researchers say schizophrenia needs to be approached like other physical illnesses, and what is needed is early intervention and tailored, targeted treatments.

Once reserved for schizophrenia and mania in adults, the drugs are increasingly being prescribed to children as young as preschoolers.

Patients experiencing psychosis quickly improved after a single infusion of sodium nitroprusside, an antihypertensive agent, according to a new study published in JAMA Psychiatry .

An anti-hypertension drug administered intravenously for a single four-hour treatment resulted in dramatic improvements of symptoms for people living with schizophrenia, according to newly published findings from clinician scientists at the University of Alberta's medical school and their colleagues in Brazil.

Last week, Thomas Insel, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, published a blog post that outlined a new approach for deciding what psychiatry research the U.S. government would fund.

Researcher at the Tel Aviv University in Israel may have found a way to diagnose schizophrenia by testing microRNA molecules in neurons from the nose.

Lilly Chief Financial Officer Derica Rice, 48, will assume the additional role of acting CEO during Lechleiter's surgery and recovery period, the Indianapolis drugmaker said.