Drugmaker Johnson & Johnson has issued a recall for lots of the antipsychotic medication Risperdal and its generic equivalent risperidone because of a bad odor reported in some of the tablets. Read Summary >
Researchers have found that mental health problems are the leading cause of disability among children, teens, and young adults worldwide. Read Summary >
Problems with neurons in the front of the brain may help explain why people with ADHD and schizophrenia have trouble with distraction, a new study suggests. Read Summary >
A leading psychiatry researcher has called drugmaker Roche's experimental schizophrenia medication RG1678 for treating listlessness and apathy in schizophrenics "the most exciting development [in the treatment of schizophrenia] in a long time." Read Summary >
Children who have a severely mentally ill parent are almost nine times more likely to be victims of homicide than children who have healthy parents, Dutch researchers have found. Read Summary >
Scientists say their finding could lead to the development of drugs that could help prevent the psychotic symptoms often seen in people with schizophrenia. Read Summary >
Scientists in Finland have discovered that women who have schizophrenia and men with affective psychosis have lower levels of bone density and vitamin D than the general population. Read Summary >
