Did you know that schizophrenia affects more than 1 percent of the world's population?
Recent Brain & Behavior Research Foundation-funded research has led to:
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NARSAD Young Investigator Grantee, Alexander Niculescu, III, M.D., Ph.D. has led a team of scientists at the Indiana University School of Medicine in pinpointing the genes most responsible for schizophrenia. To identify and prioritize the genes reported Tuesday in the Nature journal Molecular Psychiatry, the researchers combined data from several different types of studies.
In findings recently published in Cell, 2010 NARSAD Independent Investigator Grantee, Guo-li Ming, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, demonstrate that people are nearly one and...
NARSAD distinguished Investigator Grantee, Aaron T. Beck, the 'Father of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)’ proved that it can be used to help treat the 'negative' symptoms of schizophrenia. CBT was invented by Beck in the 1960s as a method of talk therapy aimed at solving problems related to dysfunctional emotional behaviors and cognitions - primarily associated with...
A hallmark symptom of schizophrenia is difficulty in distinguishing external reality from internal experiences. Whether or not this impairment is irreversible has long been debated. Now, a pilot study at the University of California, San Francisco, led by ...
The summer before Neil Barber’s junior year in high school, he and three of his buddies decided to experiment with marijuana. Neil’s dad, Greg, recalls the four of them getting “pretty rocked,” but Neil being the only one unable to recover. “Perhaps the marijuana was laced with something,” Greg wonders.
