"schizophrenia"

A 33-year-old Bengaluru techie, Rohan Chandra Bhat, was referred to NIMHANS for psychiatric evaluation after allegedly stabbing his parents to death over a financial dispute. Police suspect the US-educated suspect suffers from schizophrenia following erratic behavior during interrogation

The loss of executive control in schizophrenia may stem from disruption of this hierarchical signaling.

Researchers at University College London in the UK developed new tools, based on AI language models, that can characterise subtle signatures in the speech of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia

Washington: Researchers have found that individuals who suffer from the most severe form of schizophrenia have a significantly higher number of rare mutations than more typical forms of the illness. The findings of the study were published in the journal ‘PNAS’.Their findings provide new insight into the genetics of schizophrenia that could pave the way […]

New Delhi: A new study has found that the common syndromesof severe mental illness, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder,dementia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and addiction, may have anunusual evolutionary basis. The constant prevalence of mental illness across the history of the humanspecies suggests a Darwinian paradox. Despite causing significant disease,there seems little impact on selection for fitness. […]

The 55-year-old, a resident of Khammam, brought from a state-run care home in West Bengal

The condition is so rare that one in one million people have the disorder.

Sen said India could not play on its strengths because of a poor response to the crisis due to confusion in the government.

Schizophrenia is clearly associated with an increased risk of suicide, with a 5-10 per cent lifetime risk of death by suicide.

The study suggested that people with anxiety who develop Alzheimer's may start experiencing dementia symptoms about three years earlier than those who do not have anxiety.