People who have schizophrenia are often very concerned that they have passed the illness on to their children. Even when their children are very young, the thought of their child experiencing a psychotic episode fills many parents with fear and dread. As a child psychiatrist in training, I am often asked to evaluate children of people with... Read more
About a year ago I wrote about some of the issues surrounding smoking and schizophrenia; how the rate of smoking in people with this illness is almost double the general population and how nicotine may actually impact how antipsychotic medications work. Well, recently the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in a partnership with New York Mayor... Read more
It's been long known that marijuana use can cause certain symptoms of psychosis. Among the most commonly reported are paranoia, auditory and visual hallucinations. I regularly talk to patients with schizophrenia about the dangers of using marijuana for just this reason; patients have told me that marijuana has elicited the very symptoms we were... Read more
When children are diagnosed with a psychotic disorder, doctors very commonly prescribe a newer atypical antipsychotic medication instead of an older, typical antipsychotic medication. Part of the reason for this is that there is an assumption that these newer drugs are more effective, safer and cause less serious side effects than the older... Read more
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