The Latest Breaking News from Schizophrenia

Most people are familiar with psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, but some conditions are so rare that many psychiatrists won’t come across a single case in their professional lives. Here I present five of the rarest – and strangest – syndromes known to psychiatry.

By reducing ‘mental health’ to an umbrella term, we often neglect those with severe problems such as psychosis and schizophrenia

A recent study headed by the Lieber Institute for Brain Development found that more than 100 genes linked to the risk of schizophrenia appear to induce disease owing to their activity in the placenta rather than the developing brain. Read further on Dynamite News:

Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and those from Italy described common patterns of sleep disturbances and irregularities in daily rhythms of rest and activity across patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorder, or SSD, in a paper that was just published in Molecular Psychiatry. Read further on Dynamite News:

In our newly aware world, serious conditions such as psychosis and schizophrenia are overlooked

Patients to be treated with medicines used for arthritis and lupus in relaunch of pioneering UK trial

Studies have suggested heightened risk of conditions such as schizophrenia and childhood leukemia

Studies have suggested heightened risk of conditions such as schizophrenia and childhood leukemia

We’re starting to understand how the brain adapts to new situations.

‘Study adds to growing understanding that cannabis use is not harmless’

Inquest hears Mohamad Ikraam Bahram’s mother told health workers he was not taking his schizophrenia medication before attack on tourist