Psychiatrists led by Nikolaos Koutsouleris from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have used a computer-based approach to assign psychotic patie...

My first day back at work in 2020 was with a fantastic team of mental health housing workers. We had an extensive debate on the role of infectious diseases ...

Some people suffering from severe mental illness, particularly schizophrenia, hear "voices," known as auditory hallucinations. This symptom, which afflicts m...

Individuals with many different psychiatric disorders have a higher tendency to choose smaller, immediate rewards over larger, delayed rewards, a study led b...

In a small study of patients referred to the Johns Hopkins Early Psychosis Intervention Clinic (EPIC), Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report that about h...

Schizophrenia is an extremely variable psychiatric disorder which is diagnosed based on the presence of specific symptoms. Thomas Wolfers and André Marquand ...

It has long been believed that only the minority of people could recover from schizophrenia. However, a Norwegian research team have found that more than hal...

Stressful situations affect the brain and body differently in people with schizophrenia compared to people without the mental illness or individuals at high ...

There is a lot of interest in the role that the auto-immune system plays in the development of psychosis. For a very readable review of the link please clic...

A USC research team identified 150 proteins affecting cell activity and brain development that contribute to mental disorders, including schizophrenia, bipol...

New research shines a spotlight on the placenta's critical role in the nature versus nurture debate and how it confers risk for schizophrenia and likely othe...

A schizophrenia patient's own perceptions of their experiences -- and confidence in their judgments -- may be factors that can help them overcome challenges ...

An experimental therapy which involves a face-to-face discussion between a person with schizophrenia and an avatar representing their auditory hallucination ...

Many years ago I recall Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrell suggesting that schizophrenia may be caused by dream centers in the brain. A recent study has been publis...

An interesting break through in the study of cannabis psychosis has revealed not just a mechanism for the disorder but also a potential treatment. Researcher...

A number of new studies have emerged that have revealed significant insight into the nature of hearing voices. The first study looked at hearing voices from...

Recent developments in the area of immuno-psychiatry have begun to identify that prenatal viral infection may be responsible for the development of schizophr...