by Ket Patel | May 17, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Alzheimer's Disease
A new plan marshals the forces of funding, research, and education to fight the battle against Alzheimer’s. The National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease has an ambitious, overarching goal: to prevent and effectively treat Alzheimer’s by 2025. But while focusing on...
by Ket Patel | May 16, 2012 | All Videos For Neurology, Alzheimer's Disease
The first-ever primary prevention trial for Alzheimer’s disease will investigate whether immunotherapy can delay – or even stop – the disease in a group of subjects who are genetically destined to develop it. The $100 million project is one of the first to receive a...
by Ket Patel | May 16, 2012 | All Articles For Psychiatry, Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia patients who underwent 80 hours of computerized training showed significant and sustained improvements in the ability to distinguish between internal experience and outside reality, a group of researchers has shown. Improvements in reality monitoring –...
by Ket Patel | May 16, 2012 | All Articles For Psychiatry, Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia with comorbid panic disorder, also known as panic psychosis, appears to be a distinct subtype of schizophrenia, according to a study published in Psychiatry Research. Patients who have these two psychiatric disorders concomitantly show distinctive...
by Ket Patel | May 15, 2012 | All Articles For Psychiatry, Schizophrenia
People with schizophrenia are more likely to report having had a wide range of unhappy childhood experiences than are healthy, age-matched controls, a group of Australian researchers has found. Childhood adversity has been associated with higher risk for numerous...
