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Avatar Therapy Helps Schizophrenia Sufferers Silence Their Demons
Scientists are using avatars to help schizophrenia patients confront their phobias. Read more on our companion blog, NewsFeed. For years therapists have used...
Mental Health Researchers Reject Psychiatry’s New Diagnostic ‘Bible’
Just weeks before psychiatry’s new diagnostic “bible”—the DSM 5— is set to be released, the world’s major funder of mental health research has announced that it...
Too Old To Be A Dad?
Men, beware: your sperm may not be aging as gracefully as you are. The biological clock, science has found, ticks for both sexes You don't need to know my exact...
Do Men Really Have a Biological Clock?
The fertility issues facing men and women still have profoundly different implications
Google Searches Reveal Seasonal Trends in Mental Illnesses
It's easy to appreciate the seasonality of winter blues, but web searches show that other disorders may ebb and flow with the weather as well. Google searches...
What Really Causes Violence in Psychosis?
The latest study investigates how anger anger associated with delusions — not simply being out of touch with reality — is critical in determining whether...
Mental Illness Increases Risk of Being Homicide Victim
Study highlights surprising rate of victimization of the mentally ill
Most Common Psychiatric Disorders Share Genetic Roots
Diverse mental illnesses may actually represent variations on a common theme rather than separate disorders. A quiet autistic child is certainly unlike a manic...
Autism and Schizophrenia May Develop During Short Period of Time in Infancy
Genes connected to the two disorders may only be active for a brief window of time. The study, while in mice, could provide clues about how the developmental...
Should Mentally Ill Patients Be Allowed to Smoke?
Smoking has long been tolerated in psychiatric institutes, but administrators want to ban the habit
Oxytocin May Forge Bonds Between Dads and Children
The latest research suggests the 'love hormone' could also help in treating conditions such as autism, schizophrenia and addiction that are triggered by...
Schizophrenic Man Set to Be Executed in Florida after 35 Years on Death Row
A Florida man who has been on death row for 35 years is scheduled to die at 6pm Eastern Time after a federal appeals court lifted his stay of execution on...
Older Fathers Linked to Kids’ Autism and Schizophrenia Risk
Older men are more likely than younger ones to have children with autism or schizophrenia, and a new genetic study points to why: compared with younger dads,...
Mass Murder and Mental Illness: The Interplay of Stigma, Culture and Disease
With recent revelations that alleged movie theater shooter James Holmes had been seeing a psychiatrist prior to carrying out the July 20 massacre in Aurora,...
Antipsychotic Prescriptions in Children Have Skyrocketed: Study
Since 1993, the rate of antipsychotic drug prescribing to children increased by a factor of nearly eight, while prescribing to teens quintupled and in adults...
As Breivik’s Trial Nears Its End, Psychiatry Takes a Beating
Anders Behring Breivik is not standing trial alone in Oslo. Psychiatry is being judged as well. With Mr Breivik’s guilt not in doubt, his sanity has become the...
Marijuana Compound Treats Schizophrenia with Few Side Effects: Clinical Trial
A compound found in marijuana can treat schizophrenia as effectively as antipsychotic medications, with far fewer side effects, according to a preliminary...
A New Marijuana Plant Without the High? It Could Be Good Medicine
The Internet is buzzing about a new breed of marijuana that apparently causes no buzz of its own. Israeli researchers have bred cannabis plants that look, smell...
Marijuana May Both Trigger and Suppress Psychosis
It’s a familiar experience for most marijuana smokers — that sudden discovery of great meaning, humor or intensity in what they would ordinarily find to be...
