(Apr. 4, 2016) One of the standing criticisms about the treatment of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders is the heavy reliance on medications, which do not address the full range […]
04 April 2016 (March 29, 2016) Collecting and reporting national statistics for more than 100 years, Sweden’s National Patient Register (NPR) is a virtual mother lode of statistical gold for health researchers. For […]
29 March 2016 (Mar. 22, 2016) Given the stakes involved with antipsychotic medication – the side effects that can result either from taking or not taking them for psychotic conditions can be life-changing […]
22 March 2016 (Mar. 15, 2016) What does “asylum” mean in the context of mental illness treatment? In popular usage, “asylum” has long been linked to state psychiatric hospitals, once known as “insane […]
15 March 2016 (Mar. 8, 2016) Nobody has a greater stake in progress toward new treatments for severe mental illness than the patients, caregivers and professionals who live and work with psychiatric disease. Yet, […]
08 March 2016 (Mar. 1, 2016) It may not come as news to anyone who cares for a mentally ill loved one that the stress is enormous, but a new survey of 1,600 unpaid […]
01 March 2016 (Feb. 23, 2016) We who are patients, caregivers and professionals live on the front lines of mental health progress – or lack of it. We are impacted daily by advances […]
23 February 2016 (Feb. 16, 2016) The findings of a recent survey of emergency room physicians will come as no surprise to anyone who has been or accompanied someone in psychiatric crisis to […]
16 February 2016 (Feb. 9, 2016) News that scientists have “moved closer to understanding schizophrenia’s cause” had barely been published when social networks began trending with excitement that a cure for the disease […]
09 February 2016 (Feb. 2, 2016) In the second half of 2015, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved two new antipsychotic medications for oral use in the United States. Both are simply […]
02 February 2016 (Jan. 26, 2016) Summarized in RESEARCH WEEKLY in January:
26 January 2016 (Jan. 21, 2016) The study of mental health is characterized by what is known as the “evidence-to-practice” or “science-to-treatment” gap. “Chasm” would be more fitting. Around the world, thousands of […]
21 January 2016 (Jan. 12, 2016) Two theories have for decades dominated research on the causes of schizophrenia: genetics and neurotransmitters. Over the past two years, a third theory – the infectious/inflammatory theory—has become […]
12 January 2016 (Jan. 5, 2016) Those who live with psychotic disorders – the individuals, their family members, caregivers and others nearby – inevitably live with the issue of medication adherence. Literature reviews […]
05 January 2016 (Dec. 29, 2015) Research Weekly did not begin arriving in mailboxes until the end of 2015, but interesting, illuminating and even hopeful mental illness research was in circulation throughout the […]
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