Schizophrenia

The Killers Within

A time bomb began ticking in the mid-1970s, when the psychiatric and mental health professions went politically correct and identified the mentally ill as "victims" who required advocates. While patients in general do need...

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The Impact of the Chi-Chi Earthquake on the Incidence of Hospitalizations for Schizophrenia and...

ePub (volume, issue, and page range not yet available)] This study aimed to evaluate the impact of a catastrophic earthquake on the incidence of hospitalizations for schizophrenia, and on the choice of hospitals for patients...

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We need more compassion for mental illness

held its annual awards luncheon. I was one of the six, along with Broward Judge Giselle Pollack, Shari Thomas, David Meehan, David Zimelman and Grace Brooks. Brooks, whose husband has schizophrenia, founded the New Direction...

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Schizophrenic man sues Merseyside Police after being burned by CS spray

Nov 21 2009 by Gary Stewart, Liverpool Echo A SCHIZOPHRENIC who was badly burned when a policeman sprayed him in the face with a CS spray has won the first round of his legal battle to sue for damages. David Johnston, 38, from...

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Re: Going back to old-school - lithium. » SLS -- Bob 11/20/09

In reply to Re: Going back to old-school - lithium. » morganator, posted by SLS on November 20, 2009, at 23:48:04 Thanks for the heads-up. The aim of the present study was to investigate in a large sample of patients with...

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Only subset of chromosome 16 variants linked to autism

Deletions or duplications of chromosomal segment 16p11.2 — previously reported as a key autism region — are seen in people with developmental delays and speech and behavioral problems, but not necessarily autism. That's the...

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Could 'Smart' Pillbox Solve Medication Adherence Problem? [Clinical & Research News]

Changing systems or technology advances may uncover new approaches to helping patients adhere to the medication regimens their physicians have prescribed. “Putting cameras in pills is the only way to know if patients are...

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The Father of Pathological Theater Will Stage An Unusual 'Romeo and Juliet'

Radical revisioning of 'Romeo and Juliet' by Italy's Dario D'Ambrosi, the founder of Pathological Theater, will take stage at La MaMa December 3 to 13. It will make the full theatrical experience momentary.

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Killer tried to blind Ripper with 5 stabs

YORKSHIRE Ripper Peter Sutcliffe was nearly blinded when a killer tried to stab him in his remaining eye five times, a court heard yesterday. Schizophrenic Patrick Sureda, 43, jabbed at his face repeatedly with a metal dinner...

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New look at schizophrenia gene

UCSF scientists studying fruit flies have uncovered a new function for a gene whose human equivalent may play a critical role in schizophrenia. But the new study, which focuses on genes involved in "adaptive plasticity" — the...

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