Putting the “fun” in dysfuntion!
Did you know that even your psychiatrist might be suffering from a mental illness? Increased awareness on mental illness today shows how far humans have come in...
Tag: Schizophrenia
Importance of research on mental illness
Mental illness remains a serious challenge in our society, affecting millions of individuals worldwide. From depression and anxiety to schizophrenia and bipolar...
Schizophrenia: Cell Signaling to Hallucinations
Introduction to schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder affecting millions worldwide. Most commonly, schizophrenia is associated with positive sym...
Reducing the Risk of Schizophrenia Through Prenatal Nutrition
Schizophrenia is a mental illness characterized by negative and positive symptoms. Positive symptoms include delusions and hallucinations. Delusions are beliefs...
BCL9 and Beta-Catenin’s Functioning in Schizophrenia
Artstract by Dhruvika Patel What is Schizophrenia? Before looking at pathway dysfunction, it’s important to understand what exactly schizophrenia is and its imp...
Gaining Empathy for the Mentally Ill: Schizophrenia Edition
Schizophrenia is a debilitating disease that effects 24 million people worldwide, 2.8 million of those people being in the United States. Schizophrenia is a dis...
Imaginary Friends: Schizophrenia in Adolescents?
Prevalence of Schizophrenia in Adolescents Childhood-onset schizophrenia (COS) is very rare. It is only considered to be COS when diagnosed in children under 13...
Schizophrenia: A breakdown
Schizophrenia is a neurodegenerative disease that over 2.6 million American have, although over 40 percent of them are untreated. While there are a lot of movie...
I Don’t W(a)nt Schizophrenia
What is Schizophrenia? Schizophrenia is one of the leading causes of mental disability in the world. On average, schizophrenic patients are 1.0-2.0 standard dev...
Infections During Pregnancy and Schizophrenia: Causation or Correlation?
Neurological diseases and disorders are health deficits that many people fear at some point in their lives. Some neurological diseases and disorders do not begi...