Schizophrenia is a difficult mental illness that affects about one percent of the population in the United States. The condition is chronic, severe, and disabling often preventing an individual from living independently.
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 28, 2015 (HealthDay News) — American adults with schizophrenia face a much higher risk of an early death, particularly from heart and lung diseases associated with smoking, a new study finds. The rise …
A study published today in the American Journal of Psychiatry is the first to find that immune cells are more active in the brains of people at risk of schizophrenia as well as those already diagnosed with the disease.
Six years later, positive effects of a cognitive-behavioral therapy were still present in youths at risk for depression. (iStock). Depression commonly emerges in adolescence, and teens whose parents have a history of …
"People with social anxiety disorder create elaborate excuses to get out of the situations that make them nervous," she says. Problem is, the more you steer clear of something, the more frightening it becomes. The trick is to step outside your …
