Meet any two people with Schizophrenia and you will be confronted by an interesting and somewhat puzzling scenario. For a start they will relate entirely different experiences about their condition and most likely will respond entirely differently to their medication - if indeed they respond at all. The course and treatment of... Read more
What's in a name? Well, quite a lot if it happens to be schizophrenia. Public misunderstanding of the term continues to be fuelled by lack of proper education and by media portrayals of the association of schizophrenia with criminality and violence or vaguely disturbing and unreliable behavior.
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Scientists have recently reported that faulty cleavage of a protein called neuregulin, or Nrg-1, forms the basis for the development of schizophrenia. The Nrg-1 protein is essential for the normal development of the nervous system and therefore the functioning of the brain. Any disturbance will lead to a disturbance in brain function.
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The great variety of symptoms in schizophrenia has always made the prediction of a psychotic episode problematic. Scientists from the University of Cambridge have recently announced a method of anticipating the way people might behave during a psychotic episode. The answer lies in tracing the normal brain activity of the individual and then... Read more
Hallucinations can involve any one of the five senses, either individually or in combination. The more we understand about how hallucinations are formulated, the greater our chances are of finding more effective ways of treating them.
Over the past decade or so there has been something of a resurgence of interest in hallucinations and... Read more
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