schizophrenia

The brain's cerebellum helps shape thinking and emotion, as well as physical coordination, research shows. Could stimulating that part of the brain help ease some aspects of autism and schizophrenia?

Drugs can tamp down the hallucinations and delusions associated with schizophrenia, but at a cost. A newer approach to treatment aims to teach people to tune out the distractions instead.

Schizophrenia typically starts in the late teens or early 20s. But if you could stop that first psychotic break, could you stop the mental illness in its tracks? Some doctors think so.

New research shows that schizophrenia isn’t a single disease but a group of eight genetically distinct disorders, each with its own set of symptoms. The…

The Sound Medicine program for July 27 includesThe emergence of antibiotic resistancePossible recovery for those with schizophreniaCan you be almost…

Over the years, schizophrenia—a severe brain disorder, in which people interpret reality abnormally—has been blamed as the cause for different crimes,…

http://media.soundmedicine.org/segments/011809_full.mp3Topics this week include "house parties" for discussing health care reform; expert analysis of…