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Brain Compound Kynurenic Acid Like 'Gasoline Onto The Fire' Of Schizophrenia

... acid to problem-solving deficits in patients with schizophrenia. The finding suggests that drugs used to suppress the ... symptoms – cognitive impairments.  Though schizophrenia is commonly characterized by hallucinations and delusions, ... and colleagues have combined advanced animal modeling of schizophrenia-related chemical changes in the brain with the observation that ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 18 2008 - 7:26pm - 0 attachments

Stress Hinders Decision-Making In Rats (And Maybe You Too)

... psychopathologies in humans including anxiety, depression, schizophrenia and drug-use relapse.  Neuroscientists also know that stress ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 18 2008 - 3:49pm - 0 attachments

New Antibiotic Against Serious Infections - Receives First Approval In Europe

... disorders, epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, acute bipolar mania, behavioural psychological symptoms of ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Nov 13 2008 - 2:30am - 0 attachments

Circuit Engineering Technique Helps Identify Disease-Causing Genes

Scientists believe that complex diseases such as schizophrenia, major depression and cancer are not caused by one, but a ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 29 2008 - 12:45am - 0 attachments

Jennifer Aniston Gets Neuron Named After Her - And Maybe We Get A Clue To Mind Reading

... hippocampal formation, such as epilepsy, Alzheimers and schizophrenia and for further understanding of how perceptions and memories are ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 28 2008 - 1:58pm - 0 attachments

Glutamate Gets A New Look In Schizophrenia

Is schizophrenia a disorder of glutamate hyperactivity or hypoactivity?  The predominant hypothesis for many years was that schizophrenia is a glutamate deficit disorder but there is evidence of ... the glutamate transporter EAAT1.   EAAT1, implicated in schizophrenia, plays a critical role in inactivating glutamate by removing it ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 27 2008 - 3:33pm - 0 attachments

Progress On Drug Treatment For Anorexia Recovery

... a drug often used as an anti-psychotic in the treatment of schizophrenia has drawn more attention as an aid to the anxiety and ...

Article - Laura Collins - Oct 5 2008 - 2:58pm - 0 attachments

Driving Change In Mental Health Through Science And Community

... which proved to be a real breakthrough in the treatment of schizophrenia and hailed the onset of a new era for patients being treated ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Oct 2 2008 - 6:34am - 0 attachments

Global Psychiatrists Unite To Improve Services In Mental Health

... people with a diagnosis of severe mental illness such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder(i). Professor W. Wolfgang Fleischhacker, ... obesity, is about 1.5 to 3.5 times higher in adults with schizophrenia than in the general population." One of the key problems ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Sep 19 2008 - 3:31am - 0 attachments

Helicopter Moms, Mutant Mice And Oncoprotein 18

... Council on Autism, the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, and the Japan Society for the Promotion of ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 15 2008 - 6:19pm - 0 attachments