Schizophrenia & Psychosis
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Boosting thalamic activity could help treat cognitive symptoms in schizophrenia related to altered prefrontal cortex function
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The New York Times
Chacku Mathai, a project director with OnTrackNY, thinks about whether, if the perfect antipsychotic existed, he would take it. “My experience is so rich,” he said, “I wouldn’t trade it for anything.”
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Dr. Aaron Slan, a fourth-year psychiatry resident at Columbia University describes a patients who was acting like someone who had a schizophrenia spectrum illness, but turned out to have COVID-19.
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New insights into genetic architecture of disease hold promise for improved risk prediction and novel drug design.
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Columbia study also finds people with schizophrenia, overall, have a 4.5-fold increased risk of dying from suicide.
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If approved, KarXT— a novel combination of xanomeline with trospium — will be a "landmark" drug, noted Dr. Jeffrey A. Lieberman.
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Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman and co-authors hypothesized that combining the xanomeline with trospium could lessen xanomeline's typical side effects in treating schizophrenia.
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The Horga Lab is a psychiatry research lab that uses neuroimaging and cognitive methods to study the origins of the psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia, including hallucinations and delusions.
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Columbia researchers have published their first report on mass shootings from the Columbia Mass Murder Database (CMMD).
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A new study reveals that people with schizophrenia are roughly two-and-a-half times more likely to die if diagnosed with COVID-19 than individuals who do not have that mental illness.
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Source:
Psychiatric Times
“Our findings open the door for the development of treatments to target specific symptoms of psychosis depending on an individual subject’s symptom profile," says Guillermo Horga, MD, PhD
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Source:
Psychiatric Times
Dr. Joshua Kantrowitz discusses a recent trial of CVN058, a drug that may reduce cognitive impairments in individuals with schizophrenia.
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Columbia researchers have found a potential neurobiological mechanism for hallucinations and delusions that fits within the hierarchical model of psychosis and can explain their clinical presentation
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Dr. Ragy Girgis speaks about the benefits of treating those with psychosis early in their illness.
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