Month: April 2023

Apr 08 2023

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Study reveals subtle brain asymmetry differences in schizophrenia

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The current study’s researchers assessed case-control differences in brain asymmetries in schizophrenia. There were subtle regional asymmetry differences in the thickness of the rostral anterior …

Apr 08 2023

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‘Fighting for his rights’: Sask. man with schizophrenia allegedly denied SAID benefits after being injured in fire

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Jennifer Flesjer says her brother, Jeffrey, is being denied his Saskatchewan Assured Income Disability (SAID) benefits after being grievously injured in a house fire in Regina.

Apr 08 2023

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This Woman Hallucinated That Her Dead Father Was Still Alive. Now She Uses TikTok To Counter Schizophrenia’s Stigma.

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During a follow-up appointment a few days later, she received her diagnosis: schizophrenia, a chronic yet treatable neurodevelopmental disorder that affects how a person views reality, causing …

Apr 08 2023

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Hebrew University: Childhood onset schizophrenia study finds potential genetic cause

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem announced today that a ten-year research effort studying the genetic contribution for the causation of Childhood Onset Schizophrenia (COS), has now come to an end.

Apr 07 2023

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Research reveals possible genetic cause of childhood-onset schizophrenia

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Finding mutations that explain the disease in 20% of patients is significant enough to have far-reaching diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities.

Apr 07 2023

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‘Fighting for his rights’: Sask. man with schizophrenia allegedly denied SAID benefits after being injured in fire

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Jennifer Flesjer says her brother, Jeffrey, is being denied his Saskatchewan Assured Income Disability (SAID) benefits after being grievously injured in a house fire in Regina.

Apr 07 2023

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This mental health app could change how we understand and treat schizophrenia

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When I was training in psychiatry, it was always tricky seeing patients in the emergency department. We would try to understand their situation as quickly as we could, but you...

Apr 07 2023

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This Woman Hallucinated That Her Dead Father Was Still Alive. Now She Uses TikTok To Counter Schizophrenia’s Stigma.

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During a follow-up appointment a few days later, she received her diagnosis: schizophrenia, a chronic yet treatable neurodevelopmental disorder that affects how a person views reality, causing …

Apr 07 2023

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Study reveals subtle brain asymmetry differences in schizophrenia

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The current study’s researchers assessed case-control differences in brain asymmetries in schizophrenia. There were subtle regional asymmetry differences in the thickness of the rostral anterior …

Apr 06 2023

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Patients with schizophrenia have favorable surgical risk for neurosurgical interventions like deep brain stimulation

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A study published in Frontiers in Surgery finds that people with schizophrenia (SZ) and schizoaffective disorder (SAD) have overall lower surgical risk than people with Parkinson’s disease, which is …