Schizophrenia is a functional psychotic disorder, a recurrent mental disorder characterized by typical psychotic symptoms and deterioration of social function, ability, and self-care. Schizophrenia type 1 characterized by the prominence of positive symptoms for hallucinations, delusions, and loss of socialization, whereas in type 2 of schizophrenia found negative symptoms such as ...

Risperidone is second generation of antipsychotic medication to treat psychiatric condition. For patients with schizophrenia, the form of risperidone injection is addressed for the treatment, beside oral form anti psychotic drugs....

A new findings said that compared with Whites and those with higher socioeconomic, African American and those with lower socioeconomic had more severity and greater disability for their Parkinsons' disease. According to the study author, Lisa M. Shulman, MD, codirector of the University of Maryland Parkinson's Disease & Movement Disorders Center ...

A new survey from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA, part of the National Institutes of Health) said that 20% of U.S adults had mental illness. In the report, 30% highest level of mental health occurred to young adults aged 18 to 25 years, while 13.7% among adults ...

Physicians prescribing certain classes of medication should be extra vigilant if a patient is depressed or suicidal. This is because psychotropic and other prescription drugs, as well as over-the-counter medication, are frequently used in overdose suicides. This awareness about prescribing medications to physicians just presented at the Canadian Psychiatric Association 60th ...

Americans still perceive stigma attached to mental illness as shameful. Although many efforts to reduce it, public attitudes continue to fuel "the myth that mental illness is lifelong, hopeless, and deserving of revulsion, said Bernice A. Pescosolido, PhD, a professor of sociology at Indiana University, Indianapolis, and her colleagues write ...

In patients with severe mental illness, clinicians will prescribe them to antipsychotic drug that mostly had conventional agents, such as prochlorperazine, olanzapine, risperidone, trifluoperanzine, quetiapine, heloperidol, and chlorpromazine. However, from recent findings that published on September 22 in BMJ, the researchers said that significantly greater risk of developing blood clot that ...

At the 23rd European College of Neuropsychoparmacology (ECNP) Congress, a researcher reported that there is significant increased the risk of incident psychotic symptoms in individual with no prior history of psychotic experiences due to use of cannabis. The researchers, Cecile Henquet, PhD, from the Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology at the ...

An autosomal recessive degenerative disorder that characterized by ataxia, sensory loss, areflexia, scoliosis, weakness, and cardiomyopathy, also known as Friedreich's ataxia. According to David R. Lynch, MD, PhD, from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, nearly cases of disorder caused by a GAA-repeat expansion of the gene encoding the mitochondrial ...

Pain varies over time, both over extended periods and over shorter periods. According to recent issue in the study of Osteoarthritis and Cartilage said that worse or worsening of mental health may leads to osteoarthritis (OA) pain and pain flares. The lead author of the study, Barton L. Wise, from Boston University ...

By using Swedish national registry data, the researchers from Sweden found that most of those who successfully committed suicide used the same method as they did at the initial suicide attempt. The attempt suicide including hanging, shooting by firearm, jumping, or gassing. The study author, Bo Runeson, MD, PhD, from the ...

Post-concussion syndrome (PCS) is a symptoms related to mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) who experienced for weeks, months, or even years after concussion. There is few study and little evidence of PCS and few study in children to estimate the prevalences of PCS. However from the current study published in July ...

It was well known that smoking during pregnancy could increases the risk of infant with lower birth weight, miscarriage, and stillbirth. Moreover, according to new study reported in August issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, there is significantly higher in young adult with psychiatric disorder who exposed to cigarette smoke ...

Mediterranian diet which are rich in vegetables, fruits, olive oil, fish, legumes, and moderate amounts of wine may have impact to less mental decline with age. According to Christy Tangney, PhD, study researcher from Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, ...

In April issued of General Psychiatry, a longitudinal cohort study by Dr. Avshalom Caspi from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, and colleagues find that psychotic symptoms in minority of childhood who have psychotic symptoms ...

Individual described with mental illnesses, or acute emotional and psychological collapse generally occur when the person is unable to function in social roles anymore, severing with depression, or feeling being out of touch with reality. This condition also may occur as impact of long period of stress which has not been ...

Patients with Schizophrenia, mood disorder categorized mania, or have the symptoms of depression and mania occur simultaneously that associated with bipolar disorder, are common treated by antipsychotic medicines as their medication (such as aripiprazole, quetiapine, and olanzapine) including ...

Structure in the brain contains clear body fluid which consist with 4 cerebral ventricles (left and right lateral ventricles, third ventricle, and fourth ventricle). Some diseases related to ventricular system such as hydricephalus, ventriculitis and meningnitis. Other study also founded there is connection between enlarge the size of ventricles with schizophrenia. Now, from ...

The model of schizopheria symptoms psychotically better known with loss of Laten Inhibition (LI). In the animal study (rat) showed loss of LI linked to low level of hormone. Based on animal study result by researchers at Tel Aviv University, Israel, loss ...

Schizophrenia characterized when the patients have disorder or problem of the nervous system and psychological disorder (brain disorder). They behavior will have abnormal perception for any matter caused by their hallucination, delusions and unbridled control of emotional. The behavioral impacts from the disease are abnormal ...

In UK, half million people had bipolar disorder, characterized by depression period and mania. For people with mania, they are typically overactive, elated and less sleep. They may also suffer from hallucinations, delusions and higher risk to commit with suicide. Prof. Guy Goodwin from Oxford University said, "It supports the idea that cognitive ...