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New joint clinical trial between Australia and China may improve cognitive...

In a joint study between Australia’s University of Wollongong and China’s Beijing HuiLongGuan Hospital, researchers led by Dr Mei Han have found that the prevention and treatment of diabetes might...

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Salk researchers develop new model to study schizophrenia and other...

Model should have widespread application for pharmaceutical research

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Genetic breakthrough another step to understanding schizophrenia

A consortium of scientists from 20 countries, including researchers from The University of Western Australia, has made a major breakthrough in understanding the genetic basis of the debilitating...

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Cell transplants may be a novel treatment for schizophrenia

Rodent research suggests feasibility of restoring neuron function

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MIND Institute to participate in international study of schizophrenia in...

(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — Researchers at the UC Davis MIND Institute will participate in an international consortium spanning four continents that will study the genetics of schizophrenia and other...

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UCLA joins international effort to study genetics of schizophrenia in...

By Mark Wheeler - UCLA has joined an international consortium to investigate the high rates of schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric disorders in those who are affected with Chromosome 22q11.2...

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Schizophrenia linked to abnormal brain waves

Neuroscientists discover neurological hyperactivity that produces disordered thinking.

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Schizophrenia linked to abnormal brain waves

By Caroline Arbanas - Examining 12 major types of cancer, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified 127 repeatedly mutated genes that appear to drive the...

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Preventing relapse among schizophrenia patients

By Susan Bell - One in a hundred people suffers from schizophrenia. Characterized by hallucinations, delusions and gross disorganization of thought and speech, schizophrenia is a chronic, severe and...

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Left-handed people more likely to have psychotic disorders such as...

By Karen N. Peart - Being left-handed has been linked to many mental disorders, but Yale researcher Jadon Webb and his colleagues have found that among those with mental illnesses, people with...

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Common biology shared in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

By Bill Hathaway - Patients suffering from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder share similar cognitive and brain abnormalities, three new multi-site studies show.

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Services fail to treat prisoners with schizophrenia – increasing risk of...

New research from Queen Mary University of London shows released prisoners with schizophrenia are three times more likely to be violent than other prisoners, but only if they receive no treatment or...

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Toward a Molecular Explanation for Schizophrenia

TAU researchers find inhibition of a basic cellular process may contribute to the mysterious disease

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Novel biomarker approach suggests new avenues to improve schizophrenia...

Environmental effects of events such as oxygen deprivation and infections may be preserved as markers in blood that are associated to schizophrenia, according to an international study led by the...

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New study to explore an intervention to help reduce weight in people with...

A group of researchers, led by Professor Richard Holt at the University of Southampton, are to investigate whether people with schizophrenia or first episode psychosis are able to reduce their weight...

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Schizophrenia in the limelight: film-industry technology provides insights...

The first 30 seconds of a social encounter is crucial for people with symptoms of schizophrenia for establishing contact with people, according to new research carried out at Queen Mary University of...

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With Large-Scale New Studies, Mount Sinai Scientists Help Underscore the...

Largest exome studies of schizophrenia to date establish critical new scientific resources for biomedical community and the possibility of more tailored treatment for patients.

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Rare genetic mutations contribute to schizophrenia risk

In the largest exome sequencing effort within psychiatry to date, scientists at Karolinska Institutet and international collaborators provide new information about the genetic complexity underpinning...

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New studies show that many rare mutations contribute to schizophrenia risk

By Veronica Meade-Kelly, Broad Communications - Researchers from the Broad Institute and several partnering institutions have taken a closer look at the human genome to learn more about the genetic...

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What triggers schizophrenia?

Genetic mutations in people with schizophrenia cluster in specific proteins offering a ‘new window’ into the disorder, according to University scientists.

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