"Can schizophrenia be detected by taking images of the brain?"While this study captured characteristics of brain function ...

A study in Japan found that people whose psychosis began after age 40 were far more likely than healthy older adults to show buildups of amyloid-beta and tau, two proteins linked to Alzheimer’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Andrew Brookes/Connect Images/Getty Images) Schizophrenia can affect how a person perceives reality, thinks, and communicates, ...

Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder that is heterogeneous in its expression and biology. For many years, abnormalities in the brain's muscarinic acetylcholine system, particularly the M1 ...

Pharmacological and genetic evidence support a role for an involvement of the dopamine D2-receptor (D2-R) in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. Previous molecular imaging studies have suggested ...

In medicine, schizophrenia is treated as a single diagnostic entity. However, even among people diagnosed with the same ...

Medically reviewed by Michael MacIntyre, MD Key Takeaways There is no clear cause of schizophrenia, but several risk factors ...

Your birth date tells doctors your chronological age, but the brain may tell a different story. New research suggests that ...

Schizophrenia may encompass several disorders with different biological causes. Scientists, clinicians, and industry representatives are working to distinguish those differences and use measurements ...

This post is in response to Gray & White Matter MRI Opposite in Autistics vs. Psychotics By Christopher Badcock Ph.D. In the post to which this is a followup, Serge Mitelman and his colleagues ...

For decades, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (BD) were treated as distinct and unrelated psychiatric disorders. Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder characterized by altered thinking and ...