Announcements
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is the largest scientific organization in the world dedicated to research focused on the understanding, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders and the promotion of mental health. HHS Statement ... [... more]
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Special Message
This booklet is designed to help mental health patients and their families understand how and why medications can be used as part of the treatment of mental health problems. It is important for you to be well informed about medications you may ... [... more]
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Looking at My Genes: What Can They Tell Me?
New tests that scan all of a person's genes - that person's "genome" - or large parts of his or her genome are now on the market. Anyone who can afford the new scans can buy one, without a prescription or a health professional's advice, by ... [... more]
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What is schizophrenia?
People with schizophrenia may hear voices other people don't hear or they may believe that others are reading their minds, controlling their thoughts, or plotting to harm them. These experiences are terrifying and can cause fearfulness, ... [... more]
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Esquizofrenia
Un folleto detallado que describe los síntomas, causas, y los tratamientos, con información sobre cómo conseguir ayuda y enfrentar al trastorno. (2003) La esquizofrenia como enfermedad El mundo de las personas con esquizofrenia & [... more]
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Gene Variant Linked to Schizophrenia
A gene implicated in schizophrenia in adults has now also been linked to schizophrenia in children for the first time, strengthening evidence that the gene plays a role in the disease. The gene, NGR1, produces neuregulin, a protein crucial to ... [... more]
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CATIE Study Medications
The Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness (CATIE) Study, funded by the NIH's National Institute of Mental Health, is a nationwide public health focused clinical trial comparing the effectiveness of older (first available in ... [... more]
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Front-to-Back Wave Envelopes Brain as Child Grows Up
Growth of the brain's long distance connections, called white matter, is stunted and lopsided in children who develop psychosis before puberty, NIMH researchers have discovered. The yearly growth rate of this brain tissue was up to 2.2 percent ... [... more]
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The Lancet
An analysis of studies on antipsychotics reveals multiple differences among the newer, second-generation antipsychotics as well as the older medications, and suggests the current classification system blurs important differences, rendering it ... [... more]
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