A person with schizophrenia typically experiences more negative emotions and has more stressors than average. A new study by University...

A psychiatrist once told me that the only thing that would constitute a radical opinion in Psychiatry today was actually agreeing with...

Psychiatrists led by Nikolaos Koutsouleris from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have used a computer-based approach to...

My first day back at work in 2020 was with a fantastic team of mental health housing workers. We had an extensive debate on the role of...

Some people suffering from severe mental illness, particularly schizophrenia, hear "voices," known as auditory hallucinations. This...

Individuals with many different psychiatric disorders have a higher tendency to choose smaller, immediate rewards over larger, delayed...

In a small study of patients referred to the Johns Hopkins Early Psychosis Intervention Clinic (EPIC), Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers...

Schizophrenia is an extremely variable psychiatric disorder which is diagnosed based on the presence of specific symptoms. Thomas Wolfers...

It has long been believed that only the minority of people could recover from schizophrenia. However, a Norwegian research team have...

Stressful situations affect the brain and body differently in people with schizophrenia compared to people without the mental illness or...

There is a lot of interest in the role that the auto-immune system plays in the development of psychosis. For a very readable review of...

A USC research team identified 150 proteins affecting cell activity and brain development that contribute to mental disorders, including...

New research shines a spotlight on the placenta's critical role in the nature versus nurture debate and how it confers risk for...

A schizophrenia patient's own perceptions of their experiences -- and confidence in their judgments -- may be factors that can help them...

An experimental therapy which involves a face-to-face discussion between a person with schizophrenia and an avatar representing their...

Many years ago I recall Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrell suggesting that schizophrenia may be caused by dream centers in the brain. A recent...

An interesting break through in the study of cannabis psychosis has revealed not just a mechanism for the disorder but also a potential...

A number of new studies have emerged that have revealed significant insight into the nature of hearing voices. The first study looked at...

Recent developments in the area of immuno-psychiatry have begun to identify that prenatal viral infection may be responsible for the...