I just read this damning report on the treatment of patients with schizophrenia in the UK. I’ve read that UK treatment of patients with severe mental illness was more progressive than in the US. I don’t know if that is true, but, if so, imagine the report the US would get. This article states that the “treatment” […]
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Can Youth Cannabis Use Lead to Adult Psychosis?
There’s been a long debate about whether adolescent cannabis use can lead to adult psychosis. Since a couple of states moved to decriminalize cannabis use, there’s a new article at Machines Like Us about the research on this topic. The ability of cannabis to produce psychosis has long been an important public health concern. This concern is […]
New Test to Diagnose Schizophrenia
From Counsel and Heal: Researchers have developed a new test to diagnose Schizophrenia, and according to reports, it is almost a 100 per cent accurate in its detection of the mental disorder. The test is a simple test of the gaze of the patient. According to a report in Mail online, impaired eye movement has […]
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A Combo of Schizophrenia and an Affective Mood Disorder …
Most clinicians and researchers agree that schizoaffective disorder is a type of schizophrenia. To diagnose this disorder, a person must show the psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia and the mood disturbances associated with an affective …