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• Schizophrenia Update, February 25, 2004 Issue
  • Leaded Gasoline exposure to Pregnant Mothers Linked to Schizophrenia - Study hints that prenatal toxins can trigger psychiatric disease.
  • Lilly Issues Warning on Zyprexa in Use in Elderly with Dementia
  • Smell Test Could Soon Help Diagnose Schizophrenia
  • Wheat Allergy Found to Play Roll in Schizophrenia
  • Students Successfully Targeted for Early Treatment- Singapore
  • The Crisis Cops - When They Closed Norwich Hospital, New London Police Faced A Whole New Challenge. So They Learned How Not To Shoot
• Other News
• Florida Governor tells sheriffs he backs changes in mental health law
  
• Genes clue to schizophrenia
• Cuts threaten programs for Oregon’s mentally ill: Without treatment and support, some end up homeless or commit crimes
• Special Series on how society has failed those with mental illnesses: "Lost Among Us"
  
  
• Schizophrenia Update, February 5, 2004 Issue
• Main News Stories
  • Bird Brains, by E. Fuller Torrey
  • In Mental Health Research, a Clash Over Funding Priorities
  • Schizophrenia and Sunlight
  • Decoding Schizophrenia (Scientific American Magazine)
  • Out of the Asylum, into the Cell
  • U.S. Senate Passes Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act
  • Faulty wiring in the brain may cause early-onset schizophrenia
  • Drug Implant Offers New Hope for People with Schizophrenia
  • State Lawmakers Preview Award-Winning Documentary of Artist's Struggle With Schizophrenia
  • Drug-induced discovery sheds light on mental illness
  • Omega 3 and EFA Fatty Acids and Antioxidants Useful for Schizophrenia
  • Scientists find link for smoking, schizophrenia
  • Review shows that cannabis use is a risk factor for schizophrenia
  • EPO Might Help People with Schizophrenia
  • U of Calgary Early Psychosis Treatment Program Saves Lives
  
  
• Twin Realities - The Sisters Were Identical, Until The Voices Began
  • The Poetry of Pamela Spiro Wagner

• Schizophrenia Update, December 1, 2003 Issue
  • NAMI Sees Cure for Schizophrenia as Possible in 10 Years
  • Study Finds Hundreds of Thousands of Inmates Mentally Ill
  • Study Shows Lilly's Zyprexa Works Only as Well as "Typical" Drug Costing Pennies per Dose
  • Smell test 'spots schizophrenia' (early diagnosis opportunities)
  • Study: Schizophrenia Risk of Children, Increases with Father's Age
  • Scientists identify more gene defects linked to schizophrenia
• Schizophrenia Update, October 16, 2003 Issue
  • Study shows childhood development factors may correlate to schizophrenia
  • E-psychiatrist for quick diagnosis of Schizophrenia
  • FDA Seeks Diabetes Warning on Anti-Psychotic Drugs
  • New Movie Review: "Revolution #9", Man's descent into schizophrenia avoids cinematic stereotype
  • FDA Approves ABILIFY(TM) (Aripiprazole) for Maintaining Stability in Patients With Schizophrenia
  • Solvay Pharmaceuticals and Lundbeck move into Phase III Clinical trials with joint schizophrenia treatment, Biferprunox
• Schizophrenia Update, October 1, 2003 Issue
  • Nutrition no cure for schizophrenia
  • Eye Movement Studies To Help Diagnose Mental Illness
  • Innovative, Multicenter Study Of Schizophrenia Will Follow Disease Traits In Hunt For Genetic Causes
  • New dynamic imaging techniques provide a deeper look at the degenerative process of brain diseases; schizophrenia and Alzheimer's
  • Changes in glucose and cholesterol levels in patients with schizophrenia treated with typical or atypical antipsychotics
  • Gene May Play a Role in Schizophrenia - Second Major Study Confirms
  • Leading Drugs for Psychosis (Schizophrenia) Come Under New Scrutiny
  • Risperdal (Risperidone) Quick Dissolve Tablets Launched In US
• Schizophrenia Update, September, 2003 Issue
  • Schizophrenia and Manic Depression share gene flaw
  • Psychiatric illness 'can be halted in childhood'
  • Schizophrenia drug claims questioned
  • Experts See Mind's Voices in New Light
  • Survey Finds U.S. Has High Rate Of Mental Illness, Low Rate Of Treatment Compared To Other Countries
  • Glaxo Wins FDA Approval For New Version of Wellbutrin
• Schizophrenia Update, February, 2003 Issue
  • When Politics Is Personal - (Senator Pete V. Domenici and US Govt. policies on brain diseases and mental illness)
  • California, US - Laura's Laws signed by Governor Davis; New Law reforms treatment of seriously mentally ill
  • UK law and upcoming injectable drugs to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
  • New Book: "Beyond Crazy"
  • Path of doom starts with homelessness; Squalor 'breaks your heart'
  • Research yields better meds; Reducing side-effects, psychotic episodes the goal
• Schizophrenia Update, January, 2003 Issue
  • Schizophrenia 'may be many diseases'
  • The Day the Voices Stopped; A Memoir of Madness and Hope; Review
  • Brain Images from Patients with Schizophrenia will be shared in first nationwide Imaging Network
  • Misshaped 'spines' suggest new schizophrenia theory
  • Medical research 'often flawed - Not Independent
  • Australia Scientists Identify Schizophrenia Genes
  • Israeli Biotech: Schizophrenia Associated With the COMT Gene
  • Gene Increases Schizophrenia Risk, Says Study
  • Schizophrenia drugs linked to diabetes
• Schizophrenia Update, December, 2002 Issue
  • Brain Imaging May Detect Schizophrenia in Early Stages
  • Why do schizophrenics hallucinate, hear voices?
  • Schizophrenia: Prevalence of illness unluck of the Irish;
    Where you live, what you eat may play roles
  • Schizophrenia: Early intervention key to thwarting disease
  • Success Story: DIANE CULLEN & SCOTT BEDARD
  • Success Story: RICHARD MCKENZIE; Medication brings autoworker back from the brink
  • Success Story: Bill McPhee; 'I lost my job. I hit rock bottom'; Starting a magazine gave back the life schizophrenia stole
  • Schizophrenia: Survival after diagnosis of schizophrenia
  • Mental institutions eroded, new supports needed: Deinstitutionalization has become a catastrophe for families
  • Schizophrenia: Mentally ill jamming Canadian jails
  • Schizophrenia: Widower demands the right to know (about treatment of son)
  • Families of mentally ill pay terrible toll: Psychiatric patients are assaulting their families at an alarming rate
• Schizophrenia Update, October, 2002 Issue
  • New Book: "Diagnosis Schizophrenia, A Comprehensive Resource" for families and individuals
  • STUDIES CONFIRM SCHIZOPHRENIA IS A BRAIN DISEASE
  • The Sights and Sounds of Schizophrenia - National Public Radio
  • Pill-Splitting Can Yield Cost Savings on Common Prescription Drugs
  • Medical Food for Tardive Dyskinesia
  • Risperdal Consta (long-acting) to be launched in United Kingdom
  • Gene Chips on the Brain Unlocking Cause of Mental Disorders
  • Speaker (Fred Frese) surmounted his own mental illness
  • Mystery particle' in schizophrenics
  • Ethyl-Eicosapentaenoic Acid Useful Add-on Therapy in Schizophrenia
  • Aripiprazole looks promising for treating schizophrenia
  • CyDex, Inc. Announces Second U.S. Approval of a Captisol-Enabled Prescription Anti-psychotic Drug
  • A personal look at schizophrenia, (New Movie Made by Person who has Schizophrenia)
  • Use of schizophrenia medications not a case of new replacing old
  • Amisulpride improves depressive symptoms in schizophrenia
  • deCODE publishes landmark study linking the Neuregulin 1 gene to schizophrenia
  • SCHIZOPHRENIA: Cause may be interaction of genes and viruses in glia cells
  • No smoke without fear: Is there really a link between cannabis and psychosis?
  • Multiple genes behind schizophrenia in isolated population

  Earlier News Stories

  • Functional status in older schizophrenic patients - July 5, 2002
  • Brain abnormalities occur early in psychosis - July, 2002
  • Latest Theories on the Neurobiology of Schizophrenia - June, 2002
  • Research on British African-Caribbeans Reveals Social Factors - June 24, 2002
  • FDA Approves Injectable Geodon - June 24, 2002
  • Report Provides Blueprint for Jail Diversion - June 14, 2002
  • Chat Room Helps Patients Avoid Rehospitalisation - June 13, 2002
  • Long Hospital Stays More Effective - June 10, 2002
  • Stigma is a Matter of Semantics - June 4, 2002
  • Developmental Deficits Predict Schizophreniform Disorder- June 3, 2002
  • Implant May Stabilize Schizophrenia Patients' Treatment - May 29, 2002
  • Medical Food Treatment for Tardive Dyskinesia - May 22, 2002
  • Amphetamines, cannabis boost schizophrenia - May 16, 2002
  • Users of Atypicals Should Have Blood Suger Checked May 7, 2002
  • Severe Psychiatric Disorders May Be Increasing - April, 2002
  • Late-Onset Schizophrenia Found to be Distinct Condition - March 27, 2002
  • Risk Gene for Schizophrenia Identified: Neuregulin 1 - March 27, 2002
  • Antipsychotics Linger in Brain - Beware of Overmedication - March 20, 2002
  • Errant Stem Cell Activity Implicated in Schizophrenia - March 19, 2002
  • Gene Activity Linked to Schizophrenia: 2 Studies - March 12, 2002
  • Factors Supporting Recovery - February 12, 2002
  • Anticholinergic drugs deteriorate memory - January, 2002
• News and Events, 2001
  • Minor Physical Abnormalities Indicate Early Abnormal Development - Dec. 17, 2001
  • Ct SCANS AND MRI HELP DETECT SCHIZOPHRENIA - November 26, 2001
  • Children Raised in Cities Have Higher Risk of Schizophrenia - November 20, 2001
  • Melatonin 'beneficial for antipsychotic-induced TD' - November 19, 2001
  • Obstetric complications could increase risk of schizophrenia - November 2, 2001
  • Schizophrenia outcome best predicted by Duration before Treatment- October 26, 2001
  • WHO Report on Global Mental Health - October 6, 2001
  • Personality-cognitive impairment complex in psychosis - September, 2001
  • Duration of untreated psychosis reduced by early detection- August 7, 2001
  • Injectable Zyprexa Press Release - August 1, 2001
  • Breath Test for Schizophrenia Being Developed - July 18, 2001
  • Oxygen Shortage at Birth Linked to Schizophrenia - June 4, 2001
  • Dopamine-Dampening Gene Linked To Prefrontal Inefficiency, Schizophrenia - May 29, 2001
  • Risk of a Child's Getting Schizophrenia Tied to Paternal (Father's) Age and Sperm Damage -April, 2001
• News and Events, 1999
  • Latest News on Research into the Cause of Schizophrenia
  • "Madness on the Couch" - New Book, and Author Discussions
  • New Schizophrenia Book - From NARSAD, Documents Advances in Schizophrenia
  • Risk of Schizophrenia Onset Linked To Brain Abnormalities  
• News and Events, April through December, 1998
  • Schizophrenia Treatment Side Effects May Cause Patients To Discontinue Medication
  • Research Links Childhood-Onset And Adult-Onset Schizophrenia 
  • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Reduces Psychotic Symptoms 
  • Many Suicides Can Still Be Prevented: 'People Who Talk About It Do Do It' 
  • Gene Associated With Increased Risk Of Schizophrenia Identified 
  • Seroquel Tablets Preferred Antipsychotic Treatment 
  • Progressive Brain Changes Detected in Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia 
  • Schizophrenia 'Trigger' Described 
  • Schizophrenia - University Lecture on Current Knowledge
  • Good Dopamine Web page - A "Must Read" for students
  • Schizoaffective Disorder - A Theoretical Puzzle
  • Schizophrenia: Searching for a Gene 
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for the Treatment of Depression 
• March, 1998 News
  • Schizophrenia's Most Zealous Foe - Dr. E. Fuller Torrey (3/98)
  • Painting Helps the Art of Healing (3/98)
  • Mental Illness and  Insurance - Harvard Study of the Difficulties (3/98)
  • One Woman Show Educates, Entertains About Mental Illness (3/98)
  • Police Officer in Texas Helps Mentally Ill (3/98) 
• February, 1998 News
  • New Book on Schizophrenia (2/98)
  • Statement by Neuroscientist to House Committee - Why Research is Still Needed (2/98)
• January, 1998 News
  • New Book on Schizophrenia (1/98)
  • New Year Brings Better Mental Health Coverage (1/98)
  • Don't Expect Investments in Health To Save Money (1/98)
  • Involuntary Commitment Summit in Illinois (1/98)
  • Educational Scholarships to All with Schizophrenia (1/98)
  • People with mental illness rarely kill strangers (1/98)
  • Fear and 'myth' of mentally ill killers (1/98)
  • Volunteers Sought for Study of Hallucinations (1/98)
  • Research Study Opportunity: Preventing Psychosis Onset (1/98)
  • Confidential Inquiry Into Homicide and Suicide (1/98)