Can the right diet "cure" schizophrenia? Despite provocative case studies, research to date indicates we do not know.

Dr. Lief, of the psychiatric department of the Tulane University School of Medicine, conducting a psychoanalysis on a patient suffering from a compulsion neurosis in this scene from a two part ...

Hearing imaginary voices is a common but mysterious feature in schizophrenia. Up to 80 percent of people with the disease experience auditory hallucinations—hearing voices or other sounds when there ...

What causes schizophrenia? This severe mental illness, which affects more than 20 million people worldwide and is characterized by recurrent hallucinations and delusions, often begins to emerge in the ...

After my first hospital admission for schizophrenia, doctors determined I was permanently, totally disabled. They were wrong. It took a year, but I would fully recover.

An analysis of data on individuals with severe mental illness available in the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink found that 13 of the 15 groups of neurological conditions considered were more ...

Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe neurological disorder which disorients an individual’s perception of reality. Consequently, this affects how patients think, feel, and behave. Currently, ...

Periods of hormonal flux, such as pregnancy, postpartum, and menopause, affect disease severity of schizophrenia. In addition to higher rates of comorbidities for themselves and their babies, pregnant ...

The prevalence of severe mental illnesses is higher among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) than the general population, and it is associated with early death, a nationwide Swedish study ...