Schizophrenia News

Federal regulators are investigating the deaths of two patients who received injections of a longer-lasting version of Eli Lilly's antipsychotic Zyprexa.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday said it was investigating deaths of two patients who died following injections with Eli Lilly and Co's long-acting treatment for schizophrenia, called Zyprexa Relprevv.

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Histamine has important functions as regulator of several other key neurotransmitters.

Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 15 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Colorado.

Ask a scientist or healthcare portfolio manager what the hot topics are in biotechnology today, and you will likely hear about cancer immunotherapy, stem cells, RNA interference and exon-skipping technologies.

Correspondence: Dr PM Moran, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK, Tel: +44 115 9515312, Fax: +44 115 9515324, E-mail: paula.moran@nottingham.ac.uk Received 9 November 2012; Revised 14 February 2013; Accepted 14 February 2013 Accepted article preview online 19 February 2013; Advance online ... (more)

Hearing voices is one of the most well-known symptoms of schizophrenia. One in four patients with schizophrenia find their symptoms do not respond to medication.

Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine have uncovered important clues about a biochemical pathway in the brain that may one day expand treatment options for schizophrenia.

While those living with schizophrenia deal with those challenges on a daily basis, a number of caregivers, people who work with them and members of the public were able to experience those same symptoms through virtual reality Thursday.

Barton W. Palmer , PhD, University of California, San Diego, Department of Psychiatry, La Jolla, Veterans Medical Research Foundation, San Diego and Stein Institute for Research on Aging, La Jolla, California; Gauri N. Savla , PhD, University of California, San Diego, Department of Psychiatry, La Jolla, California; Scott C. Roesch , PhD, San Diego ... (more)

A radical new approach to helping people with schizophrenia control the voices of their hallucinations is being developed through the use of avatars.

Zothecula writes "Imagine if there was a voice in your head that regularly threatened to harm you or your loved ones, or that even ordered you to do so yourself.

While lead doesn't cause physical abnormalities, it can act at the cellular level to increase the risk of developing schizophrenia.

This study measured the extent to which OMS824 binds to PDE10 in the basal ganglia, a region of the brain that has been linked to a wide range of diseases that affect cognition.

Oladapo Ajibola Farombi, 47, died on April 20 last year in his room at the Phoenix Unit of Springfield Hospital, in Glenburnie Road, Tooting.

For schizophrenics, some controversial new theories are providing an unusual source of help by suggesting that the person bargain or negotiate with the voices in his head through computer avatars.

Using a computer interface, schizophrenics were able to interact with avatars of the entities that they believed were tormenting them Imagine if there was a voice in your head that regularly threatened to harm you or your loved ones, or that even ordered you to do so yourself.

The Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation today awarded $5.5 million to the Best Practices in Schizophrenia Treatment Center at Northeast Ohio Medical University in Rootstown.

Depot formulations of antipsychotics provide a potential solution to the poor adherence to oral therapies in schizophrenia.