A newly identified gene mutation may help explain why schizophrenia patients struggle to update their understanding of ...

Schizophrenia is a disorder that affects how people act, think, and perceive reality. It is often very difficult to treat because it has many different causes and symptoms. In a study published last ...

One of the symptoms of schizophrenia is difficulty incorporating new information about the world. This can lead patients to ...

Catatonic symptoms can happen in schizophrenia and other mental health conditions. Benzodiazepines work quickly to reduce catatonic symptoms, but they can be addictive. Electroconvulsive therapy is ...

Illinois professor Uwe Rudolph, left, and research scientist Maltesh Kambali led an international group of researchers who found a key role for an enzyme regulating glycine in the brain while ...

A light pulse of electricity to the brain helped monkeys shake off a schizophrenia-like pattern of rigid thinking. They ...

"About 10% of people with schizophrenia will engage in violence during their lifetimes, which is three to four times higher than the general population, but people with schizophrenia are more likely ...

In psychiatric conditions like autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia, differences in social behavior correlate with changes in brain volume, a newly published study shows. The finding comes from ...

People with schizophrenia suffer from psychosis, a primary symptom that is usually treated with antipsychotic medications. Patients also usually suffer from so-called negative or cognitive symptoms, ...

Dementia patients are given antipsychotics, which FDA warns may increase the risk for deat ...

On any given day, some 2 million people are imprisoned in America. Many of them have a serious mental illness, like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. Mental illness is so common in prisons that these ...