Topic: Psychotic Disorders
AP Features | 2009-07-29 07:06:00
<div><p>Otty Sanchez, a schizophrenic with a history of hospitalizations, refused to take medication for her postpartum depression, her son's father said. She'd been going to regular counseling and had been briefly hospitalized since the boy was born.</p><p>But the 33-year-old woman's troubles only became apparent ...
AP News | 2009-07-26 18:44:58
<div id="subtitle">Seeking to block voices, 'odd thoughts,' scientists try to stop schizophrenia in young people</div><div><p>She was sociable and happy in high school. But in college that changed abruptly: Depressed and withdrawn, some days she couldn't get out of bed.</p><p> ...
AP Features | 2009-07-13 06:10:52
<div><p>Thousands of people with schizophrenia worldwide could have been saved if doctors had prescribed them the anti-psychotic drug clozapine, a new study says.</p><p>Clozapine was introduced in the 1970s, but was banned for about a decade because of a rare but potentially deadly side effect: up to 2 ...
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2009-07-01 20:55:33
<div><p>LONDON (Reuters) - As many as 30,000 different gene variations may underlie schizophrenia and bipolar disease, meaning any kind of quick test to predict either disease is a long way off, scientists said on Wednesday.</p><p>Three studies by a multinational group of researchers analyzed the DNA of 10 ...
