Schizophrenia

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first pill with a digital tracking system. The medicine includes a sensor that provides data about when the pill is swallowed. Some ... Read More

People with schizophrenia have an annual mortality rate three times higher than those without schizophrenia. They also die an average of eight years earlier than those not diagnosed with ... Read More

Research on pets often focuses on how they can improve mental health. More than 90% of pet owners see their pets as family members. When family members get sick, it can be stressful. A ... Read More

Some mental health professionals have publicly argued that President Donald Trump has a mental health condition. Some armchair diagnosticians have even labeled the president with diagnoses ... Read More

Community-based mental health services can improve outcomes in people with mental health diagnoses, several studies have found. Deinstitutionalization—the push to keep people out of long-term ... Read More

Frequently viewing selfies of yourself or others is associated with lowered life satisfaction and self-esteem, according to a new investigation. Researchers also observed a connection between ... Read More

An investigation by a team of international researchers suggests depression is closely associated with specific areas of the physical brain. These findings could eventually contribute to ... Read More

Yesterday, news broke that Miami police had shot Charles Kinsey, an unarmed mental health worker tending to a man with autism. Kinsey says he had his hands up at the time of the shooting, ... Read More

Smoking during pregnancy increases the likelihood that the fetus will develop schizophrenia later in adulthood, according to a study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Previous ... Read More

A new study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry suggests the children of mothers who took selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)—a ... Read More

Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe mental health condition thought to result from some combination of genetic and environmental factors. Imbalances in brain chemicals, such as dopamine ... Read More

A variant in a gene that escalates synaptic pruning—a process that removes neurons from the brain that are no longer useful—could be linked to schizophrenia, according to a ... Read More