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Schizophrenia gene's role may be broader, more potent, than thought

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- UCSF scientists studying nerve cells in fruit flies have uncovered a new function for a gene whose human equivalent may play a critical role in schizophrenia.


Researchers take the lead out of piezoelectrics

Researchers take the lead out of piezoelectrics

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

There is good news for the global effort to reduce the amount of lead in the environment and for the growing array of technologies that rely upon the piezoelectric effect. A lead-free alternative to the current ...


Unlocking mysteries of the brain with PET

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Inflammatory response of brain cells—as indicated by a molecular imaging technique—could tell researchers more about why certain neurologic disorders, such as migraine headaches and psychosis in schizophrenic patients, occur ...


Feds designate 'critical habitat' for polar bear (AP)

Feds designate polar bear habitat in Alaska

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(AP) -- The Obama administration said Thursday it is designating more than 200,000 square miles in Alaska and off its coast as "critical habitat" for polar bears, an action that could add restrictions to ...


Scientists demonstrate link between genetic defect and brain changes in schizophrenia

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

For decades, scientists have thought the faulty neural wiring that predisposes individuals to behavioral disorders like autism and psychiatric diseases like schizophrenia must occur during development. Even so, no one has ...


Scientists find autism-associated synapse alterations

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A Stanford University School of Medicine researcher has pinpointed the mechanism by which a gene associated with both autism and schizophrenia influences behavior in mice.


Seeing mental illness in a different light

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Part of Tom Wootton's standard opening to his talks on mental illness is to pause, scan the audience and call for a show of hands.


Anti-psychotic drugs could help fight cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

The observation that people taking medication for schizophrenia have lower cancer rates than other people has prompted new research revealing that anti-psychotic drugs could help treat some major cancers.


Traffic jam in brain causes schizophrenia symptoms

Traffic jam in brain causes schizophrenia symptoms

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 2

Schizophrenia waits silently until a seemingly normal child becomes a teenager or young adult. Then it swoops down and derails a young life.


Study: Clozapine may have saved schizophrenics

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4

(AP) -- Thousands of people with schizophrenia worldwide could have been saved if doctors had prescribed them the anti-psychotic drug clozapine, a new study says.


Dips and Swells of Your Brain May Reveal Early Mental Disorders

Dips and Swells of Your Brain May Reveal Early Mental Disorders

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- John Csernansky wants to take your measurements. Not the circumference of your chest, waist and hips. No, this doctor wants to stretch a tape measure around your hippocampus, thalamus and ...


Study finds cancer is the second most frequent cause of death in individuals with schizophrenia

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

People with schizophrenia die from cancer four times as often as people in the general population. That was the conclusion of a new study published in the August 1, 2009 issue of Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the Am ...


Scientists search for sleepless souls suffering lifelong insomnia

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Most people have experienced the odd sleepless night before a crucial exam, a job interview or before going on holiday, but few people get by with just a couple of hours of sleep a day, every day.


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Discoveries shed new light on how the brain processes what the eye sees

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience (CMBN) at Rutgers University in Newark have identified the need to develop a new framework for understanding "perceptual stability" and how ...


Immune cells play surprising role in cystic fibrosis lung damage

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Immune cells once thought to be innocent bystanders in cystic fibrosis may hold the key to stopping patients' fatal lung disease. New findings from the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's ...