Beliefs About Psychosis Predict Engagement With Therapy, and Outcomes
A study by U.K. researchers finds that patients with schizophrenia diagnoses are more likely to engage in therapy and to experience positive outcomes when...
Perceived Social Status Impacts Early Psychosis
Writing in the British Journal of Clinical Psychology, London researchers find that perceptions of lower social rank and inferiority amongst 24 individuals with early...
Madness Radio: Eleanor Longden on Voices and Trauma
Hearing distressing voices is highly correlated with traumatic experiences, and many people report that their first experience with distressing voices occurs after a trauma....
Psychiatrists’ Accounts of “Insight”
Researchers in the U.K. examine how "insight" into schizophrenia is represented in psychiatrists' accounts, finding "three dimensions of insight into schizophrenia in the data...
Symptom Remission Does Not Equal Recovery
Researchers in the Netherlands and the U.K. explored the relationship between symptom reduction in schizophrenia (according to Andreason's 2005 criteria for remission) and social...
Reviews of Oxytocin & Psychosis
Acta Neuropsychiatrica finds, in a review of the evidence regarding oxytocin's (OT) role in psychosis, that it shows "efficacy in reducing core symptoms in patients...
“Brain-Plasticity Based” Computer Program Starts Trials
A computerized "brain-plasticity based" computer program designed to improve cognitive issues associated with schizophrenia is undergoing trials at eleven research centers in the U.S....
Facial Affect Recognition and Theory of Mind in Schizophrenia
Deficits of facial affect recognition are associated with schizophrenia, as is the ability to infer others' beliefs ("Theory of Mind"). French researchers compared 20...
Cannabis and Psychosis
The June issue of Current Pharmaceutical Design is devoted to a review of the interaction between cannabis and psychosis.
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Association Between Age of Psychosis Onset and Cannabis Use
Researchers at Harvard, NYU, and the VA say in a study published online today by Schizophrenia Research that the age at which 57 subjects...
Need-Adapted Treatment Funded in NY
"Parachute NYC: an alternative approach to mental health treatment and crisis services" has been awarded $17,608,085 to fund "a need-adapted treatment model (NATM) intervention for...
Long-Acting Risperidone (Consta) Increases Costs, Lowers Outcomes
Writing in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, researchers from the Health Economics Resource Center studied the effects of long-acting injectable risperidone (Consta) on 369 patients...
The Dopamine Hypothesis of Schizophrenia: An Historical Perspective
A chapter from the soon-to-be-released "Targets and Emerging Therapies for Schizophrenia" explores the history of the dopamine hypothesis, finding that "although blocking of D2DR ameliorates psychosis,...
Expectations Modulate Social Perception Differently in Schizophrenia, Autism
Writing in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, researchers from the University of Cambridge and University College in London review the evidence that both attention and...
Insanity on Trial
The trial of Anders Breivik, who confessed to killing 77 people last summer in Norway, has become a test of the concept of insanity...
Temperature-Related Deaths in People with Mental Illness
Writing in the British Journal of Psychiatry, English researchers found that "patients with mental illness showed an overall increase in risk of death of...
NIMH Awards $4 Million to Study Premature Death in Schizophrenia
Researchers at the Stein Institute for Research on Aging at UC San Diego were awarded a $4 Million National Institute of Mental Health grant...
Eye Movement and the Schizophrenia Diagnosis
Researchers from the U.S., Germany and the U.K. found they were able to differentiate 88 persons with schizophrenia diagnoses from 88 controls with almost...
CBT Without Medication is Safe and Effective For Psychosis
A small sample of 20 people with schizophrenia spectrum diagnoses who had refused or discontinued medication were given cognitive therapy by researchers in the...
Psychosis = Hallucination+Delusion
Drawing from the Netherlands Mental Health and Incidence Study (n=7075), researchers from the Netherlands and the U.K. examined psychotic experiences and clinical outcomes for...
Neurobiology and Schizophrenia: “The Elusive Correlation”
Despite developments in neuroscience that provide "a way to study schizophrenia in vivo ... efforts to understand the neurobiological bases of the clinical symptoms that...
Oxytocin – “The Love Hormone” – Improves Cognition in Schizophrenia
Oxytocin, which has "shown promise as a novel antipsychotic in multiple clinical trials," improved cognition in a small sample (n=15) of people with schizophrenia...
Why the Delay Between Psychotropics’ Immediate and “Therapeutic” Effects?
Writing in Neuron that antipsychotics' "functional consequences and the subcellular sites of their accumulation in nervous tissue have remained elusive," researchers from Germany and...
Stress Response in Individuals and Families Predicts Psychosis
Researchers from King's College, London, reviewed all studies examining psychological and biological markers of the stress response in both individuals at high risk of...
Similarity of Dissociation and Voice-Hearing in DID and Schizophrenia
A study of 40 patients with schizophrenia diagnoses and 40 patients with dissociative identity disorder (DID) found that "neither phenomenological definitions of dissociation nor...
