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Study: Clozapine may have saved schizophrenics

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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.


Study shows how microscopic changes to brain cause schizophrenic behavior in mice

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created Feb 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The findings are being published in an Early Edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week.





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Comparison of antipsychotic treatments in adolescents with schizophrenia

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created Feb 28, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

There is a wealth of scientific literature available on the treatment of adults diagnosed with schizophrenia. However, there is a paucity of data to guide the treatment of children and adolescents with schizophrenia.


How schizophrenia develops: Major clues discovered

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created Oct 16, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (22) | comments 0

Schizophrenia may occur, in part, because of a problem in an intermittent on/off switch for a gene involved in making a key chemical messenger in the brain, scientists have found in a study of human brain tissue. The researchers ...


Researchers discover new link to schizophrenia

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created May 08, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Neuroscientists at Johns Hopkins have discovered that mice lacking an enzyme that contributes to Alzheimer disease exhibit a number of schizophrenia-like behaviors. The finding raises the possibility that this enzyme may ...


Researchers reveal how the brain processes important information

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created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have shed light on how the neurotransmitter dopamine helps brain cells process important information.


Scientists create entirely new way to study brain function

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created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Duke University and the University of North Carolina have devised a chemical technique that promises to allow neuroscientists to discover the function of any population of neurons in an animal ...


New treatment mechanisms for schizophrenia

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created Jan 08, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The field of schizophrenia research has come alive with many exciting new potential approaches to treatment. From the introduction of chlorpromazine to the current day, all treatments approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...



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