New research showing that talking to ourselves in our heads may be the same as speaking our thoughts out loud could help explain why people with mental illnesses such as schizophrenia hear voices.
A team including researchers from UCLA and UNSW has made a major advance in understanding the biology of schizophrenia using 3D chromosome-mapping, a new technology for analysing DNA.
Did American mathematician John Nash suffer from schizophrenia? Confusion about his condition serves as an illustration of the common diagnostic difficulty faced by clinicians, writes Gordon Parker.
UNSW researchers have uncovered a new biomarker for schizophrenia that provides further insight into the development of the debilitating disease and may ultimately improve diagnosis and treatment.
Childhood trauma is understood to be a significant risk factor for developing a psychotic or mood disorder later in life. But how does this trauma change our brain’s stress response systems?
A new resource is being launched to tackle mental health problems among people with an intellectual disability and to improve the system that is currently failing them.
