Antipsychotics: a way to neutralize unwanted effects
A Franco-American team has discovered the cellular mechanism that causes the tremors that often accompany taking antipsychotics.Psychiatric disorders are not ...
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Smoking: people with schizophrenia have a harder time quitting
The activation of a brain area that regulates craving makes it difficult to quit smoking in schizophrenics.Smoking and schizophrenia would ...
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Schizophrenia is said to have a common gene for predisposition to smoke cannabis
Smokers cannabis have a common gene with patients with schizophrenia according to the results of a study published in the ...
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Schizophrenia: a step towards understanding the disease
A new study, carried out by an international consortium of geneticists, provides new avenues for understanding schizophrenia. This is the ...
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Study of the day: schizophrenia would affect left-handed people more
Having a symmetrical brain would explain, in part, that left-handed people are more likely to suffer from psychotic disorders. This ...
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Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder … started (maybe) during pregnancy
© Getty ImagesWe know it: during pregnancy, the health of the mother is paramount to ensure a good development of ...
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The same virus that causes schizophrenia and mononucleosis?
© Getty ImagesDr Robert Yolken, professor of neurovirology at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore (United States) has just ...
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Schizophrenia: the surprising preventive effects of omega 3s
A team of researchers has shown that omega 3 supplementation can prevent psychotic disorders in people at risk, for at ...
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Schizophrenia: a tablet game to improve patients’ memory
British researchers have developed an app to improve episodic and short-term memory in people with schizophrenia. To improve the lives ...
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Smoking: cigarette consumption increases the risk of psychosis
According to a British study, smokers are more likely to develop various psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia. Tobacco is a major ...
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A genetic link between mental illness and creativity
There is no genius without a touch of madness, according to Aristotle. This Greek philosopher was visionary: a study shows ...
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Schizophrenia: a new treatment from Africa
American scientists would like to resume a treatment generally used by African healers. Africa could very quickly be the scene ...
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Schizophrenia: sports activity to fight against cognitive decline
Regular sports activity would help patients schizophrenics to improve their cognitive abilities, according to the results ofa study published in ...
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Schizophrenia: the area of the brain responsible for “voices” finally discovered!
© iStockIn France, nearly 600,000 people have schizophrenia. This disease has a very wide range of symptoms such as visual ...
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Schizophrenia: a digital avatar can help them
© iStockInteracting with others is often a source anxiety for people with schizophrenia. The project Alter ego, led by the ...
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Hearing voices is not a sign of illness
According to a study in The Lancet Psychiatry, auditory hallucinations are made up of nuances. Each voice has its own ...
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Cannabis: memory loss in heavy smokers
A new study from Northwestern University shows that frequent cannabis use during adolescence can affect memory in adulthood. Notice to ...
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Parkinson’s: schizophrenia, a risk factor?
According to a recent Finnish study, schizophrenia increases the risk of developing Parkinson's disease between the ages of 65 and ...
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Schizophrenia: detecting it electrically
© GettyImagesA portable device set up to record the electrical activity of the retina would be able to accurately diagnose ...
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Depression: experts explore the inflammatory path
Finding signs of inflammation: this is the trail in many psychiatric illnesses. The work of Prof. Philippe Courtet has been ...
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Schizophrenia and professional career are not incompatible
© iStockPhotosFar from the clichés of wandering individuals or in a psychiatric hospital, many schizophrenic patients manage to lead a ...
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Schizophrenia: avatars for “talking” with your hallucinations
Auditory hallucinations, at any time of day or night ... They could soon be a distant memory thanks to a ...
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Psychiatric diseases: France lags seriously behind
Mental disorders affect 450 million people worldwide. In terms of prevention, France has a lot of catching up to do, ...
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The virus responsible for mononucleosis and the risk of schizophrenia are linked
January 16, 2019. According to a recent American study, the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), responsible in particular for infectious mononucleosis, increases ...
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Schizophrenia: discovery of genetic causes
Schizophrenia does not only have social and environmental causes, it is also caused by genetic factors. This could pave the ...
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Schizophrenia: “There is no genetic determinism”
A study revealed 120 genetic mutations involved in schizophrenia. But we should not conclude in determinism, believes Professor Michel Lejoyeux.Hundreds ...
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Abuse damages children’s gray matter
Abused children suffer from it all their lives, and not just psychically. Their brains develop abnormalities in various areas that ...
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Mental illnesses: misconceptions die hard
Mental illnesses remain very little known to the French, yet a quarter of the population is affected. In 2020, they ...
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Why do we all hear voices in our heads?
Our brain spends its time trying to communicate with us. This little voice that we hear in our head is ...
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Schizophrenia: why sufferers hear voices
Hearing voices is one of the most common symptoms of schizophrenia. It occurs because information is poorly transmitted to the ...
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