Schizophrenia

While psychedelics may have therapeutic potential, their use carries significant risk, particularly for those most vulnerable to psychosis.

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Affecting up to 1 percent of the global population, schizophrenia is a rare but debilitating condition that makes ...

Bethany Yeiser is now free of severe schizophrenia symptoms after starting clozapine in 2008, allowing her to graduate ...

A new study published in the Science Advances journal offers hope for schizophrenia patients. 

The deletion of a single gene and the crippling effects this has on mitochondria may be responsible for ...

The planned execution of a 45-year-old Missouri man with schizophrenia is back on after an appellate court reversed ...

We used to believe that mental disorders were rooted in moral failings. Then we discovered that even bacteria ...

The death of a five-year-old boy stabbed 76 times by his father has prompted recommendations for heightened availability ...

A new study has found that young men with cannabis (marijuana) use disorder, or CUD, could have an ...

Commentary In the aftermath of school shootings, media outlets often amplify calls for gun control while ignoring or spurning evidence-based ways to protect students. Here are ...

Despite the lack of evidence of the safety of antipsychotics in children, who are smaller in size and still ...

Aside from being a lifelong chronic disorder, schizophrenia is a mystery to researchers as its exact cause still ...

A diet that involves swapping carbohydrates for fat may be prescribed as therapy for severe mental health conditions, ...

Max Depree once said: The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. So what is the ...

Tobacco smoking causes mental health disorders, according to a recent UK study. The study found smoking increased the ...

A man has admitted to the manslaughter of a university worker and several linked charges in connection with ...

Research has shown that smoking tobacco is more common among people with mental illness, especially depression and schizophrenia. ...

Hospitalization for infection might leave you at greater risk for mental illness, according to a recent study published ...

A teenager who thought he had special powers and that his cat was trying to kill him was ...

Commentary See through the smoke screen. In September 2018, Daniel Lopez, who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and ...

Scientists have been trying to determine what exactly causes schizophrenia to emerge in a human being but have ...

A Washington, D.C., woman who attacked a bus in a fit or road rage and then ran over ...

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We may be living through another period of mass urbanization. The U.N. predicts that by 2050 two-thirds of ...