Schizophrenia Treatment:
Schizophrenia treatment information. Symptoms of schizophrenia and signs. Find latest research and information on schizophrenia and treatment.
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Nov 20th, 2008
Previous studies have shown that antipsychotics, used in treatment of early schizophrenia in children, are helpful for childhood treatment of mental illness. The increasing popularity of prescribing antipsychotics for children who are aggressive, have frequent outbursts, or other behavioral problems, is now under fire from the FDA. Newer antipsychotics carry health risks for children.
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Nov 7th, 2008
Studies reveal how a combination of common variants in two genes is associated with reduced activity of important brain structures in schizophrenia patients but not in normal controls.
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Nov 4th, 2008
Patients with schizoaffective disorder receiving paliperidone extended release tablets (paliperidone ER) for six weeks showed a significant improvement in their symptoms.
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Nov 3rd, 2008
Growth of the brain's long distance connections, called white matter, is stunted and lopsided in children who develop psychosis before puberty. The yearly growth rate of this brain tissue was up to 2.2 percent slower-than-normal in such childhood onset schizophrenia.
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Oct 27th, 2008
Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disease characterized by disorganized behavior, delusions and hallucinations. Sadly, there is no clear understanding of its cause.
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Oct 7th, 2008
Scientists have deciphered the complex relationship between three distinct brain circuits implicated in schizophrenia.
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Sep 17th, 2008
Two newer atypical antipsychotic medications were no more effective than an older conventional antipsychotic in treating child and adolescent schizophrenia and may lead to more metabolic side effects.
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Sep 8th, 2008
Childhood bedwetting occurred twice as often in adults with schizophrenia than in their unaffected brothers and sisters.
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Aug 14th, 2008
People with schizophrenia have an alteration in a pattern of brain electrical activity associated with learning and memory.
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Aug 5th, 2008
University of Iowa researchers contributed to a study that found a particular genetic variation is associated with schizophrenia.
