Schizophrenia News

Long-acting injectable antipsychotics provided significant benefit in prevention of hospitalization or relapse for schizophrenia compared with oral antipsychotics, according to study results published in The Lancet Psychiatry.

Certain cognitive deficits in childhood were distinctively linked to different psychopathological symptoms among young people, according to results of a cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.

Next-generation sequencing may help identify gene variants linked to inborn errors of metabolism among a subgroup of patients with psychosis, according to study results published in Journal of Psychiatric Research.

A significant proportion of patients who had COVID-19 experienced neurological and psychiatric morbidity in the 6 months following infection, according to results of a retrospective cohort study published in The Lancet Psychiatry.

A brief blended digital therapy that targets reasoning appeared to have a beneficial effect on paranoia among individuals with psychosis, according to results of a randomized clinical trial published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Patients with a severe mental illness had increased risk for mortality after MI compared with those without a diagnosis of mental illness, according to results published in BMC Medicine.

Individuals with schizophrenia and co-morbid insomnia were at increased risk for suicidal ideation, recent suicide attempt and greater psychopathology, according to study results published in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

Women who experienced postpartum psychiatric episodes were at increased risk for subsequent divorce or separation, according to results of a population-based cohort study published in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

Older adults with schizophrenia had an increased risk for a dementia diagnosis, according to results of a retrospective cohort study published in JAMA Psychiatry. 

Lower angiotensin-converting enzyme messenger RNA and protein levels were associated with increased schizophrenia risk, according to results of a Mendelian randomization study published in JAMA Psychiatry.