Tag: brain volume

Researchers Warn of “Brain Atrophy” in Children Prescribed Antipsychotics

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Researchers discuss the evidence that antipsychotic medications may cause brain atrophy in children, whose brains are still developing.

Valproate Linked to Decreased Brain Volume in Children Diagnosed with Bipolar...

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Researchers find that valproate decreases brain volume in a region associated with emotion processing across all participants.

Scientists Fight Against the Myth of the Normal or Optimal Brain

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A new study out of Yale University uses evolutionary biology to debunk the idea that there is a “normal” or “optimal” brain.

Is Schizophrenia Associated with Brain Volume Changes Independently of Medication?

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Duncan Double, on his Critical Psychiatry blog, published a series of posts exploring the effects of antipsychotics on brain volume and the contention that...

Meta-Analysis Ties Gray Matter Loss to Antipsychotic Dose

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Antipsychotics are currently the predominant treatment for individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia, but there is an accumulating body of research that links the use of these drugs to structural abnormalities in the brain. A recent meta-analysis suggests that gray matter loss in the brain may depend on the dose and class of the antipsychotic.