Schizophrenia is a severe and often highly debilitating psychiatric disorder characterized by distorted emotions, thinking patterns and altered perceptions of reality, as well as mental impairments.

A recent study has confirmed a longstanding theory about the origins of the ‘voices’ experienced by individuals with schizophrenia. This breakthrough validates a hypothesis that has been debated for ...

New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London has provided the first direct evidence that schizophrenia is associated with a greater release ...

Welcome to Impact Factor, your weekly dose of commentary on a new medical study. I’m Dr F. Perry Wilson from the Yale School of Medicine. The use of doxycycline in childhood may protect against the ...

For Henry Cockburn, the onset of schizophrenia felt like pure common sense. It was February 2002, and the 20-year-old art student had strayed from the University of Brighton to satisfy his desire for ...

Credit: Getty Images Schizophrenia is a type of psychotic disorder that affects how a person thinks and interprets reality. Like schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder is also a type of psychotic ...

Periods of hormonal flux, such as pregnancy, postpartum, and menopause, affect disease severity of schizophrenia. In addition to higher rates of comorbidities for themselves and their babies, pregnant ...

Diagnosing serious mental illnesses like schizophrenia can take up to 10 years after the first episode. As one can imagine, this can have very negative repercussions. Catching psychosis early on helps ...

Schizophrenia affects around 23 million people globally, or one in 345 people. The illness can beset sufferers with significant impairment in their personal, social, educational, and occupational ...