Patients with schizophrenia usually need medical treatment for their lifetime, even after the symptoms have resolved, to help manage the condition. In most cases, medications are administered in ...

Interviews with 106 patients with schizophrenia revealed that 95% had not been asked about their oral health by clinicians and that those who smoked were the least likely to have visited a dentist. An ...

The leaflets, which deal with depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorders, addictions, eating disorders, schizophrenia and mental health in general, are meant to address ...

Schizophrenia is a mental illness that affects how you think, feel, and act. Here’s a closer look at who it tends to impact.

At least 70% of people with schizophrenia experience hallucinations like “hearing voices,” and new research advances the theory that those voices are echoes of a person’s own speech.

Fortunately for schizophrenia patients, there are options. Long-acting injectables, or LAIs, are alternatives to daily oral medication for the treatment of schizophrenia.

About 3.7 million, or 1.8%, of adults in the U.S. have a lifetime history of schizophrenia, according to research published in 2023. The estimate was two to three times higher than previous estimates.

In people with schizophrenia, there is a broader spread of such variation in thickness. The subtleties involved here reflect the fact that the brain’s dizzying complexity means it’s rarely ...

For the past 70 years, schizophrenia treatments all targeted the same chemical: dopamine. While that works for some, it causes brutal side effects for others. An antipsychotic drug approved last ...

People who land in the ER for psychedelic use are at significantly higher risk of schizophrenia, according to an eye-opening new study. Canadian researchers tracked more than 9.2 million people in ...

The brain of a person shortly after diagnosis with schizophrenia (top) showing it relatively unscathed. Five years later, there is substantial loss of grey matter (above). Damage starts in the ...