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schizophrenia stories: 29 news summaries

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Top 10 Incurable Diseases

Medicine marches on, leaving behind some ailments that defy understanding

Sep 14, 07 10:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Doctors have successfully performed a face transplant, but the cure for the common cold still eludes them. LiveScience ponders the diseases that got away.
  1. AIDS
  2. Alzheimer's disease
  3. The common cold
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AIDS • schizophrenia • list • common cold • avian flu • lupus • mad cow disease • chronic fatigue syndrome • Alzheimer's Disease

Schizophrenia Drug Offers
New Hope

Works on different brain chemical than
its predecessors

Sep 3, 07 3:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - The first human trial of a new medication to treat schizophrenia that works fundamentally differently from its predecessors has shown promising results, according to this month's Nature Medicine. The drug targets glutamate rather than dopamine, as do other drugs. Scientists have long known glutamate is involved in schizophrenia. More »

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medicine • schizophrenia • pharmaceutical companies • antipsychotic drugs • dopamine • Eli Lilly • glutamate

The Life and Times of
Crystal Meth

A new book traces the drug's history, from panacea to pandemic

Aug 21, 07 6:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Even when it has the word "crystal" in front of it, meth is a downmarket drug, which summons up images of makeshift drug labs in run-down trailer parks. But meth, Salon notes in an essay on Frank Owen's new book, "No Speed Limit," has a rich history... More »

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drugs • drug addiction • schizophrenia • methamphetamine • crystal meth • Frank Owen • No Speed Limit • Benzedrine • book

Lefty Gene Found, Linked to Mental Illness

Southpaws run greater risk for schizophrenia than righties

Jul 31, 07 4:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - A gene that increases the likelihood of left-handedness also boosts the risk of mental illnesses like schizophrenia, the BBC reports. Lefties’ brains often differ from righties’ in the location of controls for speech and emotions, scientists say, and the newly pinpointed gene appears to catalyze the switch. More »

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schizophrenia • mental illness • genes • left handed • lefty

Reefer Madness: Marijuana Ups Psychosis Risk

New study reveals that pot smokers have a 41% increased chance of psychosis

Jul 27, 07 10:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Smoking pot increases your risk of developing schizophrenia and other forms of psychotic illness later in life, according to a new study. Partakers had a 41% higher chance of developing psychosis with hallucinations or delusions—a risk that only increased with heavy use. The findings may push the UK to... More »

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health • drugs • schizophrenia • drug use • marijuana • psychosis • hallucination

Supremes Halt Execution of Insane Inmate

Kennedy is swing vote against punishment for schizophrenic killer

Jun 28, 07 2:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Supreme Court voted 5-4 to block the execution of a schizophrenic condemned killer because Texas criminal courts had not taken his mental health into account. Anthony Kennedy joined the court's liberals and wrote the decision, which reaffirmed previous injunctions against executing the insane; Kennedy wrote that the "punishment... More »

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death penalty • Texas • Anthony Kennedy • schizophrenia • murder • execution • capital punishment • Scott Panetti • US Supreme Court

Psych Drugs Drove Kid Crazy

Careless prescriptions turned shy chess nerd into into belligerent hulk

May 18, 07 9:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - The careless prescription of anti-psychotic drugs, often by psychiatrists who draw pay checks from the companies who make them, has drawn attention in the New York Times recently. Now Ann Bauer, writing in Salon, draws an intimate portrait of the effects of such carelessness on one autistic teenager, who turned... More »

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medicine • health • drugs • psychiatry • schizophrenia • pharmaceutical companies • drug companies • antipsychotic drugs • pharma • doctor

Alzheimer's Patients Dying In Prescription Scandal

Sedatives shown to double death rates

Mar 30, 07 10:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sedatives commonly prescribed to Alzheimer's and dementia patients are leading to their premature death, new research reported in the Guardian concludes.  The drugs, called neuroleptics, combat the diseases' more alarming symptoms, including agitation and hallucinations. Their widespread off-label use in the U.K.—where they're licensed only for... More »

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medicine • health care • health • dementia • neuroleptics • schizophrenia • prescription • Alzheimer's Disease

Is Your Cat Making You Neurotic?

Mar 15, 07 3:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - A parasite that reproduces in cats, previously linked to schizophrenia in infected humans, has now, bizarrely, been implicated in mass personality changes in geographic areas where incidence of infection is high. A U.S. Geological Survey study of 39 countries shows that high infection rates of the Toxoplasma gondii parasite... More »

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pets • parasites • health • schizophrenia • infection • neuroticism • cat

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