POSTS TAGGED AS Schizophrenia

Neuralink Denied Human Trial

US regulators rejected Elon Musk’s bid to test brain chips in humans
“Neuralink’s regulatory struggles stem largely from its culture of [MORE]

That Gut-Brain Feeling

Characterizing metabolite messengers- how the gut and brain communicate
“A collaborative team led by researchers from Baylor College of Medicine, Texas [MORE]

A Blood Test for Schizophrenia

Machine learning approach and blood test for predicting risk of schizophrenia
“A team of researchers led by Baylor College of Medicine [MORE]

Biomarker Test for Bipolar and Depression Disorders

Mood disorders and BDNF
“Australian scientists have developed and validated a world-first test that is claimed to accurately measure levels of [MORE]

AI and Imaging for Defining Mental Disorders

Images used by AI to diagnose mental disorders
There are no blood or genetic tests for mental illnesses, and they are [MORE]

Digitizing Mental Health

Smartphone psychiatry
In the “smartphone psychiatry movement,” typing speed, voice tone, and word choice can be “biomarkers” for suicide risk.  Such [MORE]

PTSD Brain Repository

Transcription Factors
Post-traumatic stress disorder, which afflicts about eight million Americans, appears to be a proteomic disease. DNA from these suffererss [MORE]

Methylome Biomarkers for Schizophrenia

Not all genetic diseases arise from mutations.  Some result from DNA methylation—i.e. post translational modification.  With schizophrenia, oxygen deprivation, [MORE]

Schizophrenia Diagnosed with Nasal Neurons

What does a nematode have to do with schizophrenia in humans?  Nothing directly, but in 1993 the first micro [MORE]

Schizophrenia’s RNA Expression Pattern

A main aim of genetics in psychiatric epidemiology is to sort out much finer definitions of mental disorders beyond [MORE]

Diagnosing Schizophrenia

Jonathan Sebat, PhD
A research group at the University of California San Diego has identified a genetic mutation linked to [MORE]

Biomarkers for Schizophrenia

Even the tag “behavioral disorders”-meaning psychiatric diseases-is vague.  However, the search is now on to identify protein biomarkers in [MORE]

Imaging Inflammation in Brain Cells

Researchers at the University Medical Center in Groningen, The Netherlands have used positron emission tomography to show inflammation in the [MORE]