Technical Assistance Webinar: Accelerating Medicines Partnership ® Schizophrenia (AMP® SCZ): Clinical High Risk for Psychosis Clinical Trial Network (U01 Clinical Trial Required)
This technical assistance webinar is for prospective applicants of the Notice of Funding Opportunity: Accelerating Medicines Partnership ® Schizophrenia: Clinical High Risk for Psychosis Clinical Trial Network. (Source: National Institute of Mental Health)
Source: National Institute of Mental Health - August 14, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Authors: National Institute of Mental Health Source Type: news
CBT insomnia treatment provides insights into psychosis causes and prevention in adolescents - Lunsford-Avery JR.
Sleep disturbance has been recognised as a key clinical feature of schizophrenia since the disorder's earliest conceptualisations at the start of the 1900s. 1
In the intervening century, an extensive literature has confirmed the high prevalence of sleep... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 14, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
A systematic review on the impact of seasonality on severe mental illness admissions: does seasonal variation affect coercion? - Rizavas I, Gournellis R, Douzenis P, Efstathiou V, Bali P, Lagouvardos K, Douzenis A.
Coercion in psychiatry is associated mainly with involuntary admissions. The purpose of this study was to investigate the associations between hospital admissions of patients suffering from affective and schizophrenic disorders and seasonality. A systemati... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 14, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Opinion: I treat schizophrenia. It's getting hard to distinguish its delusions from our current digital reality
When patients tell me that "the algorithm is hacked," I cannot help but agree. Yes, your phone is listening to you, the camera on your laptop is watching you and online ads are predicting what you will buy. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - August 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alaina Burns Source Type: news
Heat Singes the Mind, Not Just the Body
Hot weather can destabilize mood, exacerbate mental health disorders and complicate drug treatment. Climate change itself is a stressor, scientists say. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - August 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Apoorva Mandavilli Tags: your-feed-science Mental Health and Disorders Global Warming Heat and Heat Waves Suicides and Suicide Attempts Depression (Mental) Anxiety and Stress Serotonin (Chemical) Lithium (Drug) Deaths (Fatalities) Schizophrenia Phoenix (Ariz Source Type: news
The effect of functional remission and cognitive insight on criminal behavior in patients with schizophrenia - Polat H, U ğur K, Aslanoğlu E, Yıldız S, Yagin FH.
This study was planned to determine the relationship of functional remission with a criminal history and determine its effect on criminal behavior in patients with schizophrenia. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was conducted with 13... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 9, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news
Higher Risk for Schizophrenia Seen Among Patients With Eczema
TUESDAY, Aug. 8, 2023 -- Having atopic dermatitis is associated with a higher risk for schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder, according to a study published online July 26 in the Archives of Dermatological Research.
Ryan Fan, from the Yale... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - August 8, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Toward Better Biomarkers for Schizophrenia
Researchers scratch the surface of schizophrenia susceptibility by uncovering DNA methylation differences in neonatal blood samples. (Source: The Scientist)
Source: The Scientist - August 7, 2023 Category: Science Tags: News News & Opinion Source Type: news
Phase III Flop in Schizophrenia; Top Psych Hospitals; Doubts on Cannabis Addiction
(MedPage Today) -- Ulotaront, an investigational trace amine-associated receptor 1 (TAAR1) agonist with 5-HT1A agonist activity, flopped in two phase III studies for schizophrenia, though developers Sumitomo Pharma and Otsuka blamed this in part... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - August 2, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Teen Cannabis Use May Increase Risk of Psychiatric Disorders Teen Cannabis Use May Increase Risk of Psychiatric Disorders
The use of cannabis by teenagers may greatly increase their risk of developing schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders.Quick Take (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - July 31, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Psychiatry News Source Type: news
Psychosocial functioning as a mediator between childhood trauma and symptom severity in patients with schizophrenia - Neumann E, Rixe J, Driessen M, Juckel G.
BACKGROUND: There is empirical evidence that childhood trauma is associated with symptom severity and psychosocial functioning in schizophrenia. OBJECTIVE: The present study aimed to further elucidate these associations by examining which subdomain... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 31, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Schizophrenia: a review of social risk factors that affect women - Gonz ález-Rodríguez A, Natividad M, Seeman MV, Paolini JP, Balagué A, Román E, Izquierdo E, Pérez A, Vallet A, Salvador M, Monreal JA.
Social risk factors are long-term or repeated environmental exposures in childhood and youth that change the brain and may, via epigenetic effects, change gene expression. They thus have the power to initiate or aggravate mental disorders. Because these ef... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 31, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Young Adults Source Type: news
‘We have hope for some breakthroughs’: can we change the way we treat schizophrenia?
Scientists are cautiously optimistic that new approaches to treating the disabling condition may improve the lives of those affected by itFourteen years ago, the Icelandic neuroscientist K ári Stefánsson led alandmark investigation into the genetic risk factors for developing schizophrenia, a debilitating mental health condition in which people may lose touch with reality.Stef ánsson is the chief executive of deCode genetics, based in Reykjavík, which has studied genetic information from more than two thirds of the Icelandic population. Since 2009,its work has helped to draw an assocation between people with schizophre...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 30, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Cox Tags: Schizophrenia Medical research Science Mental health & wellbeing UK news World news Society Source Type: news
Aggression and its correlation with plasma C-reactive protein levels in patients with schizophrenia: a hospital based cross-sectional study - Singh AS, Borgohain L, Singh B.
BACKGROUND: The correlation between plasma C-reactive protein (CRP) and aggression in schizophrenia has recently become an area of interest. As an acute phase reactant, neuro-immuno-modulatory and neurohumoral functions of CRP might have a role in understa... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 28, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news
Cognitive behavioural therapy plus standard care versus standard care for persistent aggressive behaviour or agitation in people with schizophrenia - Ballesteros J, Moreno-Calvete MC, Santos-Zorroz úa B, González-Fraile E.
BACKGROUND: Schizophrenia and other psychoses are thought to be associated with a substantial increase in aggressive behaviour, violence and violent offending. However, acts of aggression or violence committed by people with severe mental illness are rare ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 27, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news
