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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

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