The earliest record of a community mental health centre in Tamil Nadu appears to date to 11th-century Kanyakumari during the ...

In the acute phase, a trial of 8-20 ECT treatments, in addition to continuing antipsychotics, may be indicated for catatonic schizophrenia, treatment-resistant schizophrenia, or severe depression ...

Cognitive issues are core symptoms of schizophrenia. More than 80 percent of people with schizophrenia have cognitive symptoms of some kind. They’re one of the main obstacles to managing ...

Mismatch negativity (MMN) has been consistently found deficit in schizophrenia, which was considered as a promising biomarker for assessing the impairments in pre-attentive auditory processing.

Publication date 2010 Topics African Americans -- Mental health -- Case studies, Schizophrenia -- Case studies, African Americans -- psychology, Schizophrenia -- diagnosis, Mentally Ill Persons, Noirs ...

Catatonia is a clinically significant syndrome with various etiologies, including genetic factors, that are increasingly recognized. We present a case of recurrent catatonia associated with 17p13.3 ...

More information: Leslie Citrome et al, Long-acting oral weekly risperidone (LYN-005) for schizophrenia in the USA (STARLYNG-1): a multicentre, open-label, non-randomised phase 3 trial, The Lancet ...

Diabetic weight loss medications are effective for people with schizophrenia without affecting psychotic symptoms, University of Queensland researchers have found. Professor of Psychiatry Dan ...

Despite increasing awareness, catatonia continues to be under-recognized and poorly managed in clinical settings, according to a recently published article. The review emphasizes that catatonia is not ...