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1. The voice in your head: How a movement of people who hear voices is reshaping our understanding of mental illness--and consciousness itself

Author

McBain, Sophie

Subjects
Auditory hallucinations -- Care and treatment -- Diagnosis, Schizophrenia -- Diagnosis -- Care and treatment, Psychic trauma -- Health aspects, Literature/writing, Political science
Abstract

Patsy Hage began hearing voices when she was eight years old. She was playing with her brother in the attic when her scarf caught alight on a candle. She would [...]

Published
2021

2. Game on: Michael Merzenich has a plan for how to convince sceptics of the worth of his brain-training video games: prove that the software can help people with schizophrenia

Author

Hayden, Erika Check

Subjects
Video games -- Usage -- Health aspects, Schizophrenia -- Diagnosis -- Care and treatment, Home health and nutrition software, Environmental issues, Science and technology, Zoology and wildlife conservation
Abstract

The intersection of Mission and Sixth streets in San Francisco's South of Market neighbourhood is considered one of the most crime-riddled in the city. Liquor shops, adult bookshops and single-resident-occupancy [...]

Published
2012

3. The five lives of the psychiatry manual: Roy Richard Grinker describes the military origins of the key reference work for diagnosing mental illness

Author

Grinker, Richard

Subjects
Schizophrenia -- Diagnosis -- Care and treatment, Psychotherapy -- Health aspects, Psychiatrists -- Practice, Environmental issues, Science and technology, Zoology and wildlife conservation
Abstract

My grandfather, the pioneering psychiatrist Roy Grinker (1900-93), said that 'to know schizophrenia is to know psychiatry'. Indeed, psychiatry in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was largely an effort [...]

Published
2010

4. Can Blood Tests Detect Schizophrenia and Other Mental Illnesses? Researchers are working on developing tests that detect the physical signs of mental illness, potentially revolutionizing assessments

Author

Venosa, Alexandra

Subjects
Psychiatric diagnosis -- Research, Blood tests -- Usage, Schizophrenia -- Diagnosis -- Care and treatment, Medical research, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Alexandra Venosa A brain tumor appears as a malformed blob on a brain scan, shining white among the surrounding gray tissue--a certain and devastating diagnosis. Doctors can begin treatment [...]

Published
2016

5. Treatment Resistance in Schizophrenia: The Role of Alternative Therapies

Author

Greenberg, William M.

Subjects
Schizophrenia -- Diagnosis -- Care and treatment, Alkaloids -- Dosage and administration
Abstract

In 1931, Gananath Sen and Kartick Chandra Bose1 reported on the use of an alkaloid extract from the Rauwolfia serpentina plant in the treatment of hypertension and "insanity with violent [...]

Published
2006

6. Treatment of Co-Occurring Schizophrenia and Substance Use Disorders

Author

Rosenthal, Richard N.

Subjects
Schizophrenia -- Diagnosis -- Care and treatment, Substance abuse -- Diagnosis -- Care and treatment
Abstract

Dr. Rosenthal is professor of clinical psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and chairperson of the department of psychiatry at St. Luke's and Roosevelt Hospitals in [...]

Published
2005

7. Assessing and Treating Cognitive Deficits

Author

Keefe, Richard

Subjects
Schizophrenia -- Diagnosis -- Care and treatment, Cognition disorders -- Diagnosis -- Care and treatment
Abstract

Perhaps one of the most challenging aspects of treating patients with schizophrenia is coping with the severe cognitive deficits that accompany the disease. These deficits are evident in nearly all [...]

Published
2005

8. Intercultural Similiarities and Differences in Family Caregiving and Family Interventions in Schizophrenia

Author

Lefley, Harriet P.

Subjects
Patients -- Care and treatment, Schizophrenia -- Diagnosis -- Care and treatment, Psychiatrists -- Practice
Abstract

With progressive deinstitutionalization, families are now the major caregivers and lifetime support systems of people with schizophrenia throughout the world (Warner, 2000). In China, over 90% of people with schizophrenia [...]

Published
2004

9. The Treatment of Choice

Author

Carey, Benedict

Subjects
Psychiatric diagnosis, Schizophrenia -- Diagnosis -- Care and treatment, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

SAN FRANCISCO -- The idea was to go out in an emotional swan dive, a lunge for the afterlife that would stretch his 17-year-old imagination. He settled on a plan [...]

Published
2015

10. How Does Schizophrenia Affect People? Here's what you need to know

Subjects
Physicians -- Interviews, Schizophrenia -- Diagnosis -- Care and treatment, Psychology and mental health
Abstract

Schizophrenia affects millions of Americans, and the symptoms can be scary and upsetting to people affected and the people around them, but having a better understanding of the disease could [...]

Published
2017

11. Loughner likely to stand trial

Author

Leger, Donna Leinwand

Subjects
Tucson, Arizona Shootings, 2011, Schizophrenia -- Diagnosis -- Care and treatment, Legislators -- Crimes against, Murder -- Cases, Company legal issue, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Donna Leinwand Leger Jared Loughner, accused of killing six people and wounding Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 12 others at a supermarket near Tucson, will spend the next four months [...]

Published
2011

12. A Guy, a Car: Beyond Schizophrenia

Author

Pies, Ronald

Subjects
Schizophrenia -- Diagnosis -- Care and treatment, Schizophrenics -- Psychological aspects -- Care and treatment -- Usage, Clozapine -- Usage
Abstract

Harry was one of the lucky ones. After a lifetime of schizophrenia -- hallucinations, hospitalizations and all the attendant miseries -- he was a genuinely new man. This was about […]

Published
2009

13. To heal a hurting mind

Author

Matas, Robert

Subjects
Schizophrenia -- Diagnosis -- Care and treatment, Mentally ill -- Diseases -- Care and treatment, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: ROBERT MATAS VANCOUVER -- Ellen and Allan have all the advantages that you would expect to find in a well-educated, financially comfortable family. They know their way around the [...]

Published
2008

14. Combating schizophrenia: research has revealed daunting complexities in the psychiatric condition, but also new routes towards diagnosis and treatment

Subjects
Schizophrenia -- Diagnosis -- Care and treatment, Cognition disorders -- Diagnosis -- Care and treatment, Environmental issues, Science and technology, Zoology and wildlife conservation
Abstract

Some people hear voices that are the products only of processes in their brains. These hallucinations can lead to persistent delusions that someone is plotting against them or urging them [...]

Published
2010

15. Too many labels, too little understanding

Author

Grantham, Sr., Dennis G.

Subjects
Schizophrenia -- Diagnosis -- Care and treatment, Mentally ill -- Care and treatment, Health, Health care industry, Psychology and mental health
Abstract

I'm sure that I join many of you in being disappointed, but not surprised, by the findings of a recent Indiana University-Columbia University study, published in the online American Journal [...]

Published
2010

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