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...
by Ket Patel | May 12, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Multiple Sclerosis
Every patient should get an electrocardiogram prior to and 6 hours after the first dose of fingolimod, and hourly blood pressure and heart rate measurements in between, to assess for bradycardia, according to revised labeling released by the Food and Drug...
