For over a hundred years, the specter of a schizophrenia diagnosis has frightened patients and their families. Yet it confers no useful meaning for treatment or prognosis.

Scientists have long known that dopamine helps the brain learn from rewards, but a new computational model shows how for people with schizophrenia this learning system can break down and ...

Cameras that have been installed in their homes by the CIA, voices that whisper vicious words, and demons that appear in their bedroom at night. These are the delusions and hallucinations of psychosis ...

Lecturer in Linguistics, School of Education, Language and Psychology, York St John University Talking is one of the most complex actions the human body performs, yet the process of turning thoughts ...

Health secretary probably referred to Harvard psychiatrist who says he’s ‘never used the word “cure” in my work’ Psychiatric researchers are pushing back against the claims by the health and human ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has come under fire again for saying that a diet change can "cure" mental illness. Speaking at the Tennessee State Capitol as part of a "Take Back Your Health" ...

What Is Bysanti, and Why Does It Matter? Bysanti (milsaperidone) is a new FDA-approved oral medicine for treating certain mental health conditions in adults. It belongs to a group of medicines called ...

Hollywood icon Michelle Pfeiffer is a mom of two. The three-time Oscar nominee shares her daughter, Claudia, and son, John, with her husband, TV writer and producer David E. Kelley. Pfeiffer had ...