Scientists find the reason why people with schizophrenia hear voices — and maybe how to stop them
The brain’s failure to recognize its own speech may explain schizophrenia’s phantom voices.
Tag: schizophrenia
Adolescent brains exposed to THC are at higher risk of psychiatric disorders
THC exposure during adolescence may cause microglial cell death and brain changes, increasing schizophrenia risks in genetically susceptible individuals.
Schizophrenia patients show fewer brain connections than healthy people
"This suggests that loss of synapses could underlie the development of schizophrenia," the authors explain.
Your hairs hide secrets — some subsets of schizophrenia can be detected by biomarkers in our hair
They told me my new haircut was crazy but I never expected this!
Blind people don’t suffer from schizophrenia — and the reason could help us find a treatment
A most surprising connection.
Targeted cognitive training improves symptoms in patients with severe schizophrenia
"Our results suggest that chronically ill, highly disabled patients can benefit from TCT," said the authors. "That contradicts current assumptions."
Schizophrenia patients can calm down their brain by playing a computer game
Participants were able to better control their hallucinations after playing a computer game.
Digital avatars for schizophrenic auditory hallucinations make the voices go away
Lending a face to the tormenting voices trapped in the minds of schizophrenics can make them disappear.
Schizophrenia is not a single disease but multiple genetically distinct disorders
Cloth embroidered by a schizophrenia sufferer. Image via Wiki Commons A new study concluded that schizophrenia isn't a single disease, ...
Heavy marijuana use causes poor memory and abnormal brain structure, study concludes
We've written a number of times about the advantages that cannabinoids can bring - how they can become effective pain ...
Brain circuit that silences the voice inside your head discovered
Every time we're engaged in a certain action, the sounds we produce while walking, eating, even playing music are tuned ...
Avatar therapy shows great promise in silencing voices in schizophrenics
We've written a great deal about schizophrenia in the past, mostly reports about new theories pertaining to the development of ...
Schizophrenia symptoms canceled in mice after gene therapy
A group of international researchers may have reached a breakthrough moment after they successfully eliminated schizophrenia symptoms in mice after ...
Yoga helps reduce symptoms of most major psychiatric diseases
It's a well known fact that yoga does good to the mind and body, but the extent of that benefit ...
A fold in the brain is all that separates reality from imagination
Among your memory's biggest challenges is remembering what actually happened, versus what you imagined - that's especially hard with some ...
Scientists give computers schizophrenia to better understand the human brain
Researchers from the University of Texas and Yale infected a computer with schizophrenia in order to find out more about ...
