Schizophrenics, who are known to have problems with memory recall, also have trouble imagining the future.
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But schizophrenics also suffer from depression and an inability to feel emotion--symptoms that existing anti-psychotic drugs don't treat.
"Nobody has ever found a specific brain abnormality that all schizophrenics have that nobody else has, " he said.
The finding hints at how the rewiring process may go awry in schizophrenics.
The vast majority of schizophrenics use tobacco, and 40% of cigarettes are sold to people suffering from mental illness.
Schizophrenics, it has recently been found, are likely to be heavy smokers because nicotine is good for their condition.
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Always an enthusiastic reader, she pored over Karl Menninger's The Human Mind: case studies of pyromaniacs, kleptomaniacs, schizophrenics and murderers.
The hyperlearning hypothesis posits that for schizophrenics, this system of classifying experiences breaks down because of excessive levels of dopamine.
It could be that schizophrenics are more susceptible to the infection, or some third, as yet unidentified variable may be involved.
Like Abilify, bifeprunox was supposed to be an option that did not cause severe weight gain for schizophrenics and other mentally ill patients.
Only half of the country's 2 million schizophrenics are on medication.
What they discovered is that, like the schizophrenics, the DISCERN program had trouble remembering which story it was talking about, and got elements of the different stories confused with each other.
As schizophrenics are less likely to form relationships and have children because of their illness, the researchers say evolution would normally decrease the number with the disease over the course of generations.
Okay, so that sounds like the start to a bad science fiction movie, but it could pave the way to understanding schizophrenia better and, by extension, lead for better treatments to schizophrenics.
Thus Paul Sharits's stroboscopic flicker film "Epileptic Seizure Comparison" (1976) appears near images of what in psychiatry have been dubbed "influencing machines, " mechanical objects that some schizophrenics imagine control their thoughts and actions.
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Schizophrenics who need the anti-psychotic Seroquel, made by AstraZeneca (nyse: AZN - news - people ), instead may get Bristol-Myers Squibb 's (nyse: BMY - news - people ) depression drug Serzone.
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