Patients in the early stages of psychosis respond to treatments differently than those who have developed a chronic version ...

Researchers can now generate brain cells from patients using stem cells, which gives them a clearer understanding of how schizophrenia develops Individuals with schizophrenia may have abnormally ...

A new study has identified the protein hnRNP A1 as a key player in the production and maintenance of myelin, the fatty sheath ...

Melbourne: What causes schizophrenia? This severe mental illness, which affects over 20 million people worldwide and is characterised by recurrent hallucinations and delusions, often begins to ...

For years, Martins-de-Souza’s research group has been working to understand the role of oligodendrocytes in schizophrenia and has managed to map a series of brain proteins that help to unravel ...

Current theories about why schizophrenia develops suggest it may be linked to changes in brain development during this critical period of emerging adulthood. Schizophrenia is also thought to be ...

A new study led by the University of Zurich has shown that evidence of genetic susceptibility to schizophrenia can be found in the retina. This finding could help improve the early detection of the ...

like schizophrenia. To have such mind-altering effects, scientists surmised that there must be an LSD-like system of communication between neurons in the brain that the drug was perturbing.

Psychiatric neurosurgery, originally known as psychosurgery, involves operating on the brain to alter its function. Nastasic ...