Association Between Age of Psychosis Onset and Cannabis Use
Researchers at Harvard, NYU, and the VA say in a study published online today by Schizophrenia Research that the age at which 57 subjects...
Hyperactivity Meds Jump 46%
Following an FDA study that found a 46% rise in ADHD prescriptions from 2002-2010, a review in Death and Taxes looks at better marketing...
Need-Adapted Treatment Funded in NY
"Parachute NYC: an alternative approach to mental health treatment and crisis services" has been awarded $17,608,085 to fund "a need-adapted treatment model (NATM) intervention for...
Antipsychotics Aren’t Helpful to Children
Researchers from London, writing in European Psychiatry, reviewed "all RCTs involving children and young people with a diagnosis of childhood onset schizophrenia comparing any...
Nevada Legislation Aims to Curb Psychotropics in Foster Children
A touching article in the Las Vegas Sun follows one child from abandonment through foster placements, polypharmacy, suicidality, delinquency and homelessness to stability off...
Treating Anxiety by Tapering Off Antidepressants
Researchers from Samaritan Mental Health in Corvallis, Oregon successfully treated 12 patients for anxiety by discontinuing their antidepressant medications. Some received alternative medications for...
Long-Acting Risperidone (Consta) Increases Costs, Lowers Outcomes
Writing in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, researchers from the Health Economics Resource Center studied the effects of long-acting injectable risperidone (Consta) on 369 patients...
The Dopamine Hypothesis of Schizophrenia: An Historical Perspective
A chapter from the soon-to-be-released "Targets and Emerging Therapies for Schizophrenia" explores the history of the dopamine hypothesis, finding that "although blocking of D2DR ameliorates psychosis,...
Depressed People Surf Differently
In a study to be published in a forthcoming IEEE Technology and Society researchers at Missouri University recruited 216 undergraduates, finding that the 30% who...
Expectations Modulate Social Perception Differently in Schizophrenia, Autism
Writing in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, researchers from the University of Cambridge and University College in London review the evidence that both attention and...
Insanity on Trial
The trial of Anders Breivik, who confessed to killing 77 people last summer in Norway, has become a test of the concept of insanity...
Australia Plans To Screen 3 Year Olds For Mental Illness
A controversial move by the Australian Federal Government plans to screen 3 year olds for early signs of mental illness as part of routine...
Temperature-Related Deaths in People with Mental Illness
Writing in the British Journal of Psychiatry, English researchers found that "patients with mental illness showed an overall increase in risk of death of...
The Functional Neurology of Guilt in Depression
The University of Manchester in England, along with the D'Or Insitute in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, have found that differences in activity in the...
NIMH Awards $4 Million to Study Premature Death in Schizophrenia
Researchers at the Stein Institute for Research on Aging at UC San Diego were awarded a $4 Million National Institute of Mental Health grant...
Antenatal Depression Associated w/Mom’s Childhood Maltreatment
Maternal antenatal depression is highly correlated with a history of the mother having been mistreated in childhood, and these two facts significantly increase the...
Exercise, Depression, and Bias
Scientific American reviews the effect of exercise on depression, the effect of encouragement to exercise on exercising, the effect of bias on the consumption of...
The Genetics of Depression: “Look to the Environment”
A comprehensive review of research on the genetics of depression up to 2012, published online today by Psychological Bulletin, finds "a continued lack of...
Eye Movement and the Schizophrenia Diagnosis
Researchers from the U.S., Germany and the U.K. found they were able to differentiate 88 persons with schizophrenia diagnoses from 88 controls with almost...
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy is Effective for Current Depression
A randomized, controlled trial by researchers in the Netherlands compared 102 subjects with recurrent depression receiving mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) + treatment-as-usual (TAU) with...
CBT Without Medication is Safe and Effective For Psychosis
A small sample of 20 people with schizophrenia spectrum diagnoses who had refused or discontinued medication were given cognitive therapy by researchers in the...
Psychosis = Hallucination+Delusion
Drawing from the Netherlands Mental Health and Incidence Study (n=7075), researchers from the Netherlands and the U.K. examined psychotic experiences and clinical outcomes for...
Neurofeedback May Improve Self-Regulation of Emotion
A small pilot study of neurofeedback as a tool for self-regulation of emotion networks in the brain found that eight patients with depression learned...
Childhood Stress Alters Memory and Brain Structure
Researchers from the universities of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Illinois and New Orleans collected MRI scans and assessments of executive functioning and stress exposure from 61...
Neurobiology and Schizophrenia: “The Elusive Correlation”
Despite developments in neuroscience that provide "a way to study schizophrenia in vivo ... efforts to understand the neurobiological bases of the clinical symptoms that...
