Health and hygiene company RayVio Corp of Haywood, CA, USA, which is commercializing deep-ultraviolet (UV) LEDs and consumer disinfection solutions, is expanding a research program with Boston University to develop new treatments for ...
Juan Jose Aranguren, the next energy minister of Argentina, said Friday he will seek to rebuild investor confidence in the country by improving business conditions after taking office December 10. "We need, as in other sectors of economic ...
Big Tobacco, almost unbelievably, is lending a hand in the creation of a potential breakthrough drug, a new class of drugs that could dull grave psychiatric disorders, improve attention of ADHD afflicted children, repel Alzheimer's onset, ...
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President of the Spanish Society of Pathology double Supervisor (EDPS), Dr. Nestor Szerman defended Wednesday by inhaling nicotine electronic cigarette as "effective treatment" for these patients because they help to counteract the side ...
Verbal memory appears to be a predictor of clinical remission in patients with first-episode psychosis, according to Canadian researchers writing in Schizophrenia Research. Martin Lepage (Douglas Mental Health University Institute, ...
Tags: Psychosis, Verbal Memory, Health&Medicine
By Afsaneh Gray, medwireNews Reporter A study of first-episode psychosis patients in Hong Kong has found that those with fewer negative symptoms at presentation and poor medication compliance were more likely than others to disengage from ...
Tags: Intervention, Disengagement, negative symptom, schizoaffective disorder
By Afsaneh Gray, medwireNews Reporter A study of first-episode psychosis patients in Hong Kong has found that those with fewer negative symptoms at presentation and poor medication compliance were more likely than others to disengage from ...
Tags: Intervention, Disengagement, negative symptom, schizoaffective disorder
Findings suggest similar origins of some cases of schizophrenia and autism in humans Johns Hopkins researchers report that fetal mice — especially males — show signs of brain damage that lasts into their adulthood when they ...
Tags: Immune Response, Prenatal Exposure, journal Brain, maternal infection
One might think that after years of seeing people at their worst, mental health workers would harbor negative attitudes about mental illness, perhaps associating people with mental health issues as less competent or dangerous. But a new ...
Tags: mental health, mental illness
Women with schizophrenia are nearly twice as likely to experience pre-eclampsia, pre-term birth and other serious pregnancy and delivery complications as women without the condition, a landmark study by researchers at the Institute for ...
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Omeros Corporation (NASDAQ: OMER) today announced positive results from a Phase 2a clinical trial of OMS824, the company's phosphodiesterase 10 (PDE10) inhibitor, in which the drug was well tolerated and demonstrated comparable systemic ...
By Eleanor McDermid, Senior medwireNews Reporter Levels of glutamine, but not glutamate, are elevated in the dorsal anterior cingulate of patients with established schizophrenia, say researchers. Most previous studies have measured ...
Psychoeducation should be routinely offered to family members of schizophrenia patients as early as possible following diagnosis, findings from a mixed-method systematic review indicate. The results, based on quantitative and qualitative ...
For people with serious mental illness who are trying to quit smoking, extending their treatment with the smoking cessation drug Chantix (varenicline) may help them avoid a relapse, according to a new study. After a standard 12-week ...
Tags: mental illness, quit smoking, Chantix, avoid relapse
By Joanna Lyford, Senior medwireNews Reporter Diminished expression (DE), a core negative symptom in people with schizophrenia, is significantly correlated with an array of cognitive functions, research by a Hong Kong team shows. ...
Tags: diminished expression, negative symptom, schizophrenia