Children who are overweight or obese are more likely to develop schizophrenia as adults, according to a recent study. But adults with excess weight seem to have a lower risk of both schizophrenia and ...

Learning how to tell early schizophrenia symptoms in teens apart from typical adolescent strife can help your teen receive timely treatment. Schizophrenia is a mental health disorder characterized by ...

Neurocognitive dysfunction is common in offspring with a familial high risk for schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. FHR-SZ offspring show more severe, generalized impairment.

Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder run in families. Children who have a parent with either of these disorders are at a substantially higher risk of developing that disorder than children without such ...

In children with familial high risk of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, evidence of motor impairment skills may indicate neurodevelopmental vulnerability for psychosis. “Motor abnormalities have ...

Little girl covers her face with her hands isolated Data for this analysis were sourced from the Danish High Risk and Resilience Study. Participants were identified through the Danish Civil ...

Current treatments for cognitive symptoms in patients with diagnoses such as schizophrenia are inadequate. We need to ...

The invisible friends Cat Price talked about in childhood were chalked up to an active imagination, and her adolescent angst and hostility got interpreted as teenage rebellion. When, as a high school ...

Children born to parents with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder have a higher risk of developing psychopathology than children born to parents without these conditions. The corresponding study as ...

As a child, Halloween was one of the highlights of my year. But I began isolating myself and missing it—perhaps an early ...