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 ...

Recent advances in neuroscience have increasingly implicated oxidative stress in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. Oxidative stress arises from an imbalance between the production of reactive ...

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 ...

For numerous individuals with schizophrenia, living with the condition involves challenges, not only related to hallucinations or delusions, but also due to subtler difficulties, such as problems ...

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

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 ...

A common antibiotic may help lower the risk of some young people developing schizophrenia, a new study suggests. Teenagers undergoing mental health treatment who were prescribed the antibiotic ...

A recent study linking marijuana use to schizophrenia attracted widespread attention. Now that the excitement has died down, let's take a closer look at the science. How does Pfizer's weight-loss pill ...

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 ...