Topic: Psychotic Disorders
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Taking fish oil may help prevent full-blown psychotic illness in at-risk adolescents and young adults, a study released today hints. These at-risk individuals may have weak or transient psychotic symptoms, and already show schizophrenia-like brain changes, Dr. G. Paul Amminger of The University of Melbourne in Australia, a researcher on the study, told Reuters Health. But ...
Fish oil pills may be able to save some young people with signs of mental illness from descending into schizophrenia, according to a preliminary but first-of-its-kind study. The Austrian study of just 81 patients comes from leaders in the field of youth mental health and adds to ...
Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disease that has been recognized throughout recorded story. The 1st signs of schizophrenia typically emerge in the teenaged years or early 20s. It's a form of psychosis, which is an impairment of thinking in which the interpretation of fact is abnormal. It's rare in kids and is hard to recognize ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Questioning the theory that prenatal exposure to the flu virus might be a risk factor for schizophrenia, a new study finds no link between the flu pandemic of 1957 and later schizophrenia rates. In an analysis of studies from Europe, Australia, Japan and the U.S., researchers found no higher-than-normal risk of schizophrenia among people born ...
