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Oct 05 2020

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Stanford scientists solve secret of nerve cells marking a form of schizophrenia

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A common genetic deletion boosts the risk for schizophrenia by 30-fold. Generating nerve cells from people with the deletion has showed Stanford researchers why.

Oct 05 2020

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‘There is a stigma with schizophrenia – I live in fear all the time’

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Someone like Amy McGrath might not be what first springs to mind when you think of schizophrenia. A full-time teacher, mother and community activist, she leads a regular life –...

Oct 04 2020

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Being told I have schizophrenia was terrifying – it shouldn’t be

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While the stigma may be lifting for some mental health conditions, it remains for others. Erica Crompton tells her story …

Oct 04 2020

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Computer model explains altered decision making in schizophrenia

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Scientists have built a computer ‘brain circuit’, or artificial neural network, that mirrors human decision-making processes and sheds light on how circuits might be altered in psychiatric diseases, a …

Oct 04 2020

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Eternal Beauty review – a bold but jarring sketch of schizophrenia

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Sally Hawkins leads this attempt to bring empathy to the questionable history of mental illness in cinema …

Oct 04 2020

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Stanford researchers unravel how a common genetic deletion elevates schizophrenia risk

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A common genetic deletion boosts the risk for schizophrenia by 30-fold. Generating nerve cells from people with the deletion has showed Stanford researchers why.

Oct 04 2020

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Two Sides of Schizophrenia

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I had the opportunity to read an advance copy of a new book, The Essential Schizophrenia Companion, by Robert Francis (with a foreword by Elyn R. Saks, PhD, JD) –...

Oct 03 2020

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Stanford researchers unravel how a common genetic deletion elevates schizophrenia risk

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A common genetic deletion boosts the risk for schizophrenia by 30-fold. Generating nerve cells from people with the deletion has showed Stanford researchers why.

Oct 03 2020

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Computer model explains altered decision making in schizophrenia

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Scientists have built a computer ‘brain circuit’, or artificial neural network, that mirrors human decision-making processes and sheds light on how circuits might be altered in psychiatric diseases, a …

Oct 03 2020

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IBM joins NIH effort to diagnose schizophrenia using AI

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IBM says it will join a U.S. National Institutes of Health effort to apply data analysis to finding diagnostic techniques and treatments for schizophrenia.