From the Massachusetts General Hospital press release: A new approach to investigating hard-to-find chromosomal abnormalities has identified 33 genes associated with autism and related disorders, 22 for the first time. Several of these genes also…
From the SAGE Publications press release: Does the growing number of psychiatric disorder diagnoses have an effect on people with mental illnesses? According to a new study, as definitions of mental illnesses become broader, people…
From the BMJ-British Medical Journal press release via EurekAlert!: Cognitive therapy reduces the severity of psychotic experiences in adults who are at risk of developing conditions such as schizophrenia, a randomised controlled trial published on…
From the University of Hertfordshire press release via AlphaGalileo: Almost everyone reports experiencing mind-pops at some time or another, but some experience them more than others according to research conducted by the University of Hertfordshire. …
From the Journal of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics press release via AlphaGalileo: A study that is published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics evaluates the efficacy of a specialized form of psychotherapy in clinical…
From the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine press release: Working with genetically engineered mice and the genomes of thousands of people with schizophrenia, researchers at Johns Hopkins say they now better understand how both nature…
From the Karolinska Institutet press release via EurekAlert!: In a new study, researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have identified epigenetic changes – known as DNA methylation – in the blood of patients…
From the University of Zürich press release via EurekAlert!: Schizophrenia has long been known to be hereditary. However, as a melting pot of disorders with different genetic causes is concealed behind manifestations of schizophrenia, research…
From the Scripps Research Institute press release via AlphaGalileo: Scripps Research Institute scientists and their colleagues have successfully harnessed neurons in mouse brains, allowing them to at least partially control a specific memory. Though just…
From the UNC press release: What characterizes many people with depression, schizophrenia and some other mental illnesses is anhedonia: an inability to gain pleasure from normally pleasurable experiences. Exactly why this happens is unclear. But…