Schizophrenia
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Why is schizophrenia dangerous?
(ORDO NEWS) — Schizophrenia is one of the most well-known psychiatric diagnoses, but it is one that most people have a rather vague idea about. Most people associate this disease with obsessions, hallucinations, and the inability to function normally in society. In fact, with proper treatment, schizophrenics are able to lead relatively normal lives. However, the disease is indeed very dangerous, so it is important to diagnose it in time and receive…
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Experiments point to autoimmune nature of schizophrenia
(ORDO NEWS) — A complex and mysterious mental disorder may be due to the “attack of the body on the brain” – with antibodies attacking the body’s own proteins. Scientists from the Tokyo University of Medicine and Dentistry (TMDU) have found autoantibodies in some patients with schizophrenia – immune proteins that interact with proteins in their own body instead of antigens from viruses or bacteria. These antibodies attack the NCAM1…
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Expansion of DNA repeats called one of the causes of schizophrenia
(ORDO NEWS) — More than half of the human genome consists of repetitive sections of DNA of different types. Many diseases are known to be associated with this particular repetitive DNA, and in a new study, scientists have identified them as one of the causes of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness, manifested by episodes of psychosis, impaired thinking and emotional sphere. Despite all efforts, it has not yet…
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Science offers a clue to the mystery of schizophrenia
(ORDO NEWS) — Brain diseases such as schizophrenia or Alzheimer’s disease can change the lives of individuals and their families. Because schizophrenia affects about 20 million people worldwide, the effects of treatment could save millions of lives. In people with schizophrenia, symptoms can range from hallucinations to loss of personality and memory loss. Now scientists think they may have found the protein that causes schizophrenia and determine where in the…
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Found a link between the features of the brain and the risk of schizophrenia
(ORDO NEWS) — Scientists from Norment, a Norwegian mental health research center, have found that the surface of a person’s brain is directly related to their likelihood of developing schizophrenia. A group of genes associated with the risk of developing schizophrenia also influence the size and thickness of a person’s brain surface, according to specialists from Norment (a Norwegian center for research on mental disorders). The surface of the brain…
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Scientists discover protein that may protect against schizophrenia
(ORDO NEWS) — Experiments in mice have shown that malfunctioning of the SAP97 protein leads to abnormal activity in a small region of the hippocampus, causing the memory impairments characteristic of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a mental illness that is diagnosed in more than 20 million people worldwide. Its symptoms include decreased emotionality, memory impairment, depersonalization, and hallucinations. The nature and mechanisms of the development of this disease remain one of…
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“Mini-Brains” grown in a lab provide clues about early life origins of schizophrenia
(ORDO NEWS) — Multiple changes in brain cells during the first month of embryonic development may contribute to schizophrenia later in life, according to a new study by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. The researchers, whose study was published in Molecular Psychiatry, used stem cells collected from patients with schizophrenia and people without the disease to grow 3-dimensional “mini-brains” or organoids in the laboratory. By comparing the development of both sets…