For decades, scientists have suspected that the voices heard by people with schizophrenia might be their own inner speech ...

New research published in the American Journal of Psychiatry provides new molecular insights into the role of the habenula, a ...

Neuregulin-1 (NRG1) is a multifaceted growth factor that plays a pivotal role in neural development, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission. Extensive research implicates disruptions in the ...

A recent study suggests that individuals with psychotic disorders process sensations they produce themselves, such as their ...

New research suggests that hearing voices in schizophrenia may arise from the brain’s failure to recognize its own inner ...

Schizophrenia is a disorder with readily observable symptoms including hallucinations, delusions, social withdrawal, apathy, and disorganized thinking and behavior. It is also associated with ...

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is part of a major international study aimed at identifying causes and effects of the early stages of schizophrenia in young people, with the goal ...

A 33-year-old woman hears brutal and frightening voices daily but continues her college studies. A middle-aged man, who served in the Navy and has since struggled with substance abuse, spends 10 weeks ...

Schizophrenia involves periods of psychosis, with symptoms like delusions and hallucinations. Schizoid personality disorder is a persistent pattern of thoughts and behaviors that cause distress but ...

Paranoid schizophrenia is a term that was used to mean a type of psychosis, which means your mind doesn't agree with reality. But the American Psychiatric Association declared it outdated in 2013, and ...