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Possible Insight Into The Schizophrenic Brain Via Mouse Model
Categorie : SchizophreniaSchizophrenia is an incredibly complex and profoundly debilitating disorder that typically manifests in early adulthood but is thought to arise, at least in part, from pathological disturbances occurring during very early brain development... ...
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Fri Mar 2010
"Brain Bank" To Foster Research, Treatment Of Major Psychiatric Diseases
Categorie : SchizophreniaJohns Hopkins Children's Center neurovirologist Robert Yolken, M.D., and collaborators from the Stanley Medical Research Institute have developed a large repository of brain and tissue samples to advance the understanding and treatment of bipolar disorder, major depression and schizophrenia... ...
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Fri Mar 2010
Schizophrenia Gene Network Analysis Identifies Age-Associated Defects
Categorie : SchizophreniaThe underlying causes of the debilitating psychiatric disorder schizophrenia remain poorly understood. In a study published online in Genome Research, scientists have performed a powerful gene network analysis that has revealed surprising new insights into how gene regulation and age play a role in ...
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Fri Mar 2010
Prolonged Cannabis Use Linked To Psychosis
Categorie : SchizophreniaAn Australian study found that prolonged use of cannabis or marijuana by young adults was linked to a higher risk of developing psychosis, with the highest risk affecting those who started using the substance in their teens, and continued using it for 6 years or more into adulthood: the risk of d ...
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Fri Mar 2010
Why Symptoms Of Schizophrenia Emerge In Young Adulthood
Categorie : SchizophreniaIn reports of two new studies, researchers led by Johns Hopkins say they have identified the mechanisms rooted in two anatomical brain abnormalities that may explain the onset of schizophrenia and the reason symptoms don't develop until young adulthood... ...
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Fri Mar 2010
Early Intervention Could Prevent Schizophrenia
Categorie : SchizophreniaThe onset of schizophrenia is not easy to predict. Although it is associated with as many as 14 genes in the human genome, the prior presence of schizophrenia in the family is not enough to determine whether one will succumb to the mind-altering condition. The disease also has a significant environm ...
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Wed Feb 2010
Blood Test For Schizophrenia Could Be Ready This Year
Categorie : SchizophreniaA blood test for diagnosing schizophrenia - the most serious form of mental illness - could be available this year, according to an article in the current issue of Chemical & Engineering News, ACS' weekly newsmagazine. The disorder, with symptoms that can include hallucinations and delusional though ...
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Sun Jan 2010
Launch Of Largest Academic-Industry Collaboration For Drug Discovery In Depression And Schizophrenia
Categorie : SchizophreniaAn international consortium of scientists, led by H. Lundbeck A/S and King's College London, has launched one of the largest ever research academic-industry collaboration projects to find new methods for the development of drugs for schizophrenia and depression... ...
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Sun Jan 2010
Phase III Study Demonstrates INVEGA(R) SUSTENNA(TM) (paliperidone Palmitate) Statistically Similar To RISPERDAL(R) CONSTA(R) (risperidone)
Categorie : SchizophreniaTreatment with once-monthly INVEGA® SUSTENNA(TM) is not inferior to treatment with bi-weekly RISPERDAL® CONSTA®, according to new data from a comparative study of both treatments in patients with schizophrenia. Results of the 13-week clinical trial were released this week... ...
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Thu Dec 2009
Late-Breaking Brain And Behavior Research Presented At ACNP Annual Meeting
Categorie : SchizophreniaThe 2009 American College of Neuropsychopharmacology Annual Meeting featured innovative research on PTSD, biomarkers for schizophrenia and treatment for gambling addiction. Study highlights included: Researchers Use New Techniques to Assess PTSD... ...
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Thu Dec 2009
Alexza Announces Submission Of AZ-004 (Staccato(R) Loxapine) NDA
Categorie : SchizophreniaAlexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALXA) announced that it has submitted its New Drug Application (NDA) for Staccato® loxapine (AZ-004) to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). AZ-004 is an inhalation product candidate being developed for the rapid treatment of agitation in patients with sc ...
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Thu Dec 2009
Workings Of Anti-Psychotic Drugs In The Living Brain Revealed By New Biosensors
Categorie : SchizophreniaScientists have resolved a question about how a popular class of drugs used to treat schizophrenia works using biosensors that reveal previously hidden components of chemical communication in the brain... ...
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Thu Dec 2009
Onset Of Schizophrenia Triggered By Faulty 'Wiring' In The Brain
Categorie : SchizophreniaA new study by researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP), King's College London has discovered abnormalities in the white matter of the brain that seem to be critical for the timing of schizophrenia. The study, led by Professor Phillip McGuire and Dr Sophia Frangou, has been published in this ...
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Sun Nov 2009
Forest Laboratories, Inc. And Gedeon Richter Announce Positive Results From A Phase IIb Study Of Cariprazine For The Treatment Of Schizophrenia
Categorie : SchizophreniaForest Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: FRX) and Gedeon Richter Plc announced positive top-line results from a Phase IIb clinical trial of the novel, investigational antipsychotic agent cariprazine for the treatment of acute exacerbation of schizophrenia. ...
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Sun Nov 2009
Fear Of Mentally Ill Is Misplaced: Stranger Homicide By People With Schizophrenia Is Rare And Unpredictable
Categorie : SchizophreniaInternational study led by Sydney researchers shows homicides of strangers by people with schizophrenia are exceptionally rare and unpredictable events A study initiated by a team of Sydney researchers published in the leading schizophrenia journal, Schizophrenia Bulletin, shows that homicides of ...
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Sun Oct 2009
Scientists Demonstrate Link Between Genetic Defect And Brain Changes In Schizophrenia
Categorie : SchizophreniaFor decades, scientists have thought the faulty neural wiring that predisposes individuals to behavioral disorders like autism and psychiatric diseases like schizophrenia must occur during development. Even so, no one has ever shown that a risk gene for the disease actually disrupts brain developmen ...
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Sun Oct 2009
Pharmacotherapeutics Of Schizophrenia, Australia
Categorie : SchizophreniaSchizophrenia is one of the more costly diseases to manage in OECD countries and affects up to 1 per cent of the world's population. And as a chronic and often severe neurodevelopmental disorder it accrues neurobiological, social and psychological deficits, and results in premature death after ...
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Sat Sep 2009
Genetic Causes Of Schizophrenia
Categorie : SchizophreniaIn collaboration with colleagues from across Europe, researchers from the University of Copenhagen and the Mental Health Services in the Capital Region of Denmark have found mutations in the human genome that lead to an increased risk of developing schizophrenia. This discovery brings about a new ...
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Fri Aug 2009
Abilify Has Made Strong Gains In Patient Share Across All Lines Of Therapy Since Last Year's Analysis Of Prescribing Trends In Schizophrenia
Categorie : SchizophreniaDecision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms focusing on pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that the patient share of Bristol-Myers Squibb/Otsuka's Abilify has grown in the first three lines of therapy since the 2008 analysis of prescribing trends in newly diag ...
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Sun Aug 2009
Schizophrenia: A Genetic Basis
Categorie : SchizophreniaSchizophrenia is a severely debilitating psychiatric disease that is thought to have its roots in the development of the nervous system; however, major breakthroughs linking its genetics to diagnosis, prognosis and treatment are still unrealized. ...
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Sun Aug 2009