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Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hollyoaks has been applauded by a mental health charity for its upcoming plot regarding a character's diagnosis with schizophrenia.An episode of the Channel 4 soap ...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
A 200,000 pound grant has been awarded to researchers at Queen's to help establish why people with schizophrenia are three times more likely to smoke than the general population.
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
A pretty grim day yesterday looks like fast forwarding into today. The damage appears to have been done by a sudden loss of confidence in the US. The schizophrenia over banking woes reared its ugly head once more after home sales experienced their biggest drop in eight years (one wonders what the number was back then).
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALXA) announced that it has initiated its second Phase 3 clinical trial with AZ-004 (Staccato(R) loxapine). AZ-004 is an inhalation product candidate being developed for the treatment of acute agitation in patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
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NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
A new mix of therapy and medication may stave off psychosis among teens at risk. by Charles Schmidt - 07.22.2008 Camila Knudsen (not her real name) doesn’t like to recall how her world began changing when she was 14. Background sounds in her suburban neighborhood—lawn mowers, planes, barking dogs—intermingled in a deafening buzz. The cacophony made it hard for her to hear what people were
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seroxat secrets... (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
I notice that Phil Dawdy at Furious Seasons has an update on the Zyprexa story. I’ve written about Zyprexa before but Phil is the Daddy on this one. In March 2007, I wondered “how does a drug such as Zyprexa, that was approved for the treatment of adults with schizophrenia, and a few years later, was [...]
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Schmutzie's Milkmoney Or Not, Here (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Your gentleness with your instrument and the people you knew inspired me as a child. I knew I could do that, too, if I only practiced enough. That was before your schizophrenia. When they found your body days after death a couple of months ago, I felt relief for you. I am a participant in x365 and Blog 365 . contact | suggestion box | archives | best of | search
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
PEOPLE WITH psychosis are being denied counselling and other talking therapies in the misguided view that it might worsen their condition, according to a new publication from Schizophrenia Ireland.
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ireland.com (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Counselling and psychotherapy should be routinely provided to people with mental illness, instead of being seen as an extra option, Schizophrenia Ireland said this morning as it launched its national schizophrenia awareness week.
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Express & Echo (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
South West Regional Development Agency officials seem to be suffering from schizophrenia. Its claims that it recognises that "air travel... is critical to business success", Echo, July 12, directly contradicts the findings in its report Economic Assessments of South West Regional Assessments, December 2007, which can be downloaded from www.eclipse.co.uk/exeter/air/rda_rep.pdf.
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British Journal of Pharmacology (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Proton MRS in twin pairs discordant for schizophrenia Molecular Psychiatry advance online publication, July 22, 2008. doi:10.1038/mp.2008.87 Authors: E S Lutkenhoff, T G van Erp, M A Thomas, S Therman, M Manninen, M O Huttunen, J Kaprio, J Lönnqvist, J O'Neill & T D Cannon
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
( Queen's University Belfast ) A £200,000 grant has been awarded to researchers at Queen's to help establish why people with schizophrenia are three times more likely to smoke than the general population.
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Main St. USA (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Frank Calloway, 112, draws murals on sheets of butcher paper, sometimes more than 30 feet long. What a story. Frank Calloway has lived in mental health centers since 1952 when he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Be sure to watch the (too short) slideshow to see some of his work. Slideshow CNN: At 112, artist still going strong TUSCALOOSA, Alabama (AP) -- Bent over or sitting at a table, gripping...
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NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Stuart Baker-Brown, from Dorset, was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1996, and says he has found little support ever since. In the wake of a visit to Moscow in 1991, Stuart Baker-Brown got the feeling he was being followed around the streets of London. "I was concerned for my life, feeling anxious and depressed," he said. "I started getting very paranoid." However, those early symptoms of
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Ph articles (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
A survey has revealed that many people with mental problems in England stand opposite to everyday discrimination - usually from those who know them best - family, friends, and employers. Stuart Baker-Brown, from Dorset, was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1996, and says he has found little support ever since. In the revel of a visit to Moscow in 1991, Stuart Baker-Brown got the feeling he was being...
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newsroom | 04/03/2008
BY DELTHIA RICKS delthia.ricks@newsday.com Previously unsuspected flaws in genes involving brain development and neurological function may underlie schizophrenia, researchers have found in an investigation shedding new light on a perplexing psychiatric disorder. Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, working with a team at the University of Washington in Seattle, have uncovered an array of DNA...