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Dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia -- The dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia or the dopamine hypothesis of psychosis is a theory that argues that the unusual behaviour and experiences associated with schizophrenia (sometimes extended ... > full article Delusions of parasite infestation -- Delusional parasitosis is a form of psychosis in which sufferers hold a delusional belief they are infested with parasites. It is usually diagnosed as a subtype of delusional disorder. A related ... > full article Dopamine -- Dopamine is a chemical naturally produced in the body. In the brain, dopamine functions as a neurotransmitter, activating dopamine receptors. Dopamine can be supplied as a medication that acts on the ... > full article Paranoia -- In popular culture, the term paranoia is usually used to describe excessive concern about one's own well-being, sometimes suggesting a person holds persecutory beliefs concerning a threat to ... > full article Psychopharmacology -- Psychopharmacology is the study of drug-induced changes in mood, thinking, and behavior. These drugs may originate from natural sources such as plants and animals, or from artificial sources such as ... > full article Psychosis -- Psychosis is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state in which thought and perception are severely impaired. Persons experiencing a psychotic episode may experience hallucinations, hold ... > full article Axon -- An axon, or nerve fiber, is a long slender projection of a nerve cell, or neuron, that conducts electrical impulses away from the neuron's cell body or soma. Axons are in effect the primary ... > full article Delusion -- A delusion is commonly defined as a fixed false belief and is used in everyday language to describe a belief that is either false, fanciful or derived from deception. In psychiatry, the definition is ... > full article Hallucination -- A hallucination is a sensory perception experienced in the absence of an external stimulus, as distinct from an illusion, which is a misperception of an external stimulus. Hallucinations may occur in ... > full article Gluten-free, casein-free diet -- Many parents of children with autism have reported that a gluten-free casein-free diet helps their children. According to the theory, some children are unable to digest the protein in many cereals ... > full article Psychopathology -- Psychopathology is a term which refers to either the study of mental illness or mental distress or the manifestation of behaviours and experiences which may be indicative of mental illness or ... > full article Sleep disorder -- A sleep disorder (somnipathy) is a disorder in the sleep patterns of a person or animal. Sleep disorders include: Bruxism; delayed sleep phase syndrome; insomnia: jet lag or desynchronosis; ... > full article Schizophrenia -- Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by persistent defects in the perception or the expression of reality. A person experiencing untreated schizophrenia typically demonstrates ... > full article Biological psychiatry -- Biological psychiatry, or biopsychiatry is an approach to psychiatry that aims to understand mental disorder in terms of the biological function of the nervous ... > full article Mental confusion -- Severe confusion of a degree considered pathological usually refers to loss of orientation (ability to place oneself correctly in the world by time, location, and personal identity), and often memory ... > full article Biological psychiatry -- Biological psychiatry, or biopsychiatry is an approach to psychiatry that aims to understand mental disorder in terms of the biological function of the nervous system. It is interdisciplinary in its ... > full article Mental illness -- A mental illness is defined by the medical profession as a disorder of the brain that results in a disruption in a person's thinking, feeling, moods, and ability to relate to others and to ... > full article Dementia with Lewy bodies -- Dementia with Lewy bodies is the second most frequent cause of hospitalization for dementia, after Alzheimer's disease. Current estimates are that about 60 to 75% of diagnosed dementias are of the ... > full article Excitotoxicity and cell damage -- Excitotoxicity is the pathological process by which neurons are damaged and killed by the overactivations of receptors for the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate, such as the NMDA receptor and ... > full article Neuron -- Neurons (also known as neurones, nerve cells and nerve fibers) are electrically excitable cells in the nervous system that function to process and transmit information. In vertebrate animals, neurons ... > full article |
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Dopamine-related Drugs Affect Reward-seeking Behavior (April 27, 2007) -- Drugs that adjust dopamine levels in the brain greatly affect how people react to success and failure, according to a new ... > full story
Schizophrenia Patients Who Are Likely To Receive Depot Medication Identified (April 26, 2007) -- A recent report has identified a unique subgroup of schizophrenia patients in the United States who tend to receive depot antipsychotic ... > full story
Understanding Schizophrenia: How Genetics, White-matter Defects, Dopamine Abnormalities And Disease Symptoms Are Associated (April 25, 2007) -- New research helps bridge an important gap in understanding schizophrenia, providing the best evidence to date that defects in the brain's white matter are a key contributor to the disease, which ... > full story
Brain Tissue Reveals Possible Genetic Trigger For Schizophrenia (March 30, 2007) -- Scientists may have identified a molecular mechanism involved in the development of schizophrenia. In studying the postmortem brain tissue of adults who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, the ... > full story
Cannabis-related Schizophrenia Set To Rise, Say Researchers (March 26, 2007) -- If cannabis causes schizophrenia - and that remains in question - then by 2010 up to 25 per cent of new cases of schizophrenia in the UK may be due to cannabis, according to a new ... > full story
Researchers Uncover Genetic Risk For Schizophrenia (March 21, 2007) -- Psychiatric researchers at the Zucker Hillside Hospital campus of The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research have uncovered evidence of a new gene that appears to increase the risk of developing ... > full story
Schizophrenia Much More Common In Certain Localities (March 15, 2007) -- Research by the World Health Organization (WHO) has suggested that the course and symptomatic expression of schizophrenia is relatively more benign in developing societies. However, a new study from ... > full story
Making Memories That Last A Lifetime (March 15, 2007) -- Neurobiologists have discovered a mechanism by which the constantly changing brain retains memories -- from that dog bite to that first kiss. They have found that the brain co-opts the same machinery ... > full story
Children's Cognitive Performance: A Potential Indicator Of Bipolar Disorder And Schizophrenia (March 15, 2007) -- Scientists have made progress toward finding a way to determine whether a child is likely to one day suffer from bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. A battery of neurological tests revealed that ... > full story
Abnormalities Of The Mouth Associated With Schizophrenia (March 14, 2007) -- Recent research quantifies, for the first time, how schizophrenia is apparently associated with a broader hard palate and abnormalities in the teeth. This knowledge may lead to improved early ... > full story
Brain's 'Default Mode' Awry In Schizophrenia (March 14, 2007) -- The "default mode," or baseline condition when the brain is idling, is not properly coordinated in patients with schizophrenia and this aberrant activity may be caused by poor connectivity between ... > full story
New Details In Schizophrenia Treatment Trial Emerge (March 2, 2007) -- Two new studies from the CATIE trial provide more insights into comparing treatment options, and to what extent antipsychotic medications help people with schizophrenia learn social, interpersonal ... > full story
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR (Text Revision)
Revised edition of the ultimate mental health reference. Used worldwide by all practitioners requiring diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia, dementia, and delirium, as well asfor sleep, mood, ... > read more
Abnormal Psychology, 12th Edition
Since 1948, this distinguished textbook has been considered the most comprehensive in its field. Building on this strong foundation, the 12th edition introduces new topics, fresh insights, and ... > read more
Lung Cancer
Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related death in men, and in women, it has surpassed even breast cancer. According to the American Cancer Society, in 2001, there will be about 169,500 ... > read more
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·Revised to meet the current standards of first aid care by the American Red Cross and the Wilderness Medical Society ·Updated figures and drawings that illustrate essential first aid ... > read more
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology of Plants
Biochemistry Molecular Biology of Plants is a major contribution to the plant sciences literature, superbly edited by three distinguished scientists, Bob B. Buchanan, Wilhelm Gruissem, and Russell ... > read more
The Biology Of Belief: Unleashing The Power Of Consciousness, Matter And Miracles
The Biology of Belief is a groundbreaking work in the field of New Biology. Author Dr. Bruce Lipton is a former medical school professor and research scientist. His experiments, and those of other ... > read more
Celiac Disease : A Hidden Epidemic
Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder that affects nearly one in every hundred people. Unfortunately, 97 percent remain undiagnosed and untreated. They continue to suffer from gastrointestinal ... > read more
Cell and Molecular Biology : Concepts and Experiments
Now fully updated and revised, the new Fourth Edition of Cell and Molecular Biology not only offers you and your students all of the latest research, it also gives students the tools they need to ... > read more
Your Pregnancy Week by Week, Fifth Edition
Pregnancy should be a time of wonder and hope, but these days, it's associated more often with paranoia. Dr. Glade Curtis is keenly aware of the anxieties heaped upon expectant women: he has ... > read more
Essential Cell Biology, Second Edition
Univ. of California, San Francisco. Textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and provides a straightforward explanation of the workings of a living cell. Focuses on the way in ... > read more