On a Thursday this past July, my husband and I drove to our county’s police academy training facility. A uniformed officer let us in. We were escorted through several hallways and into a conference ...

A man suffering paranoid schizophrenia funnelled diesel through his neighbour's letterbox, before setting her flat on fire.

Type “Am I paranoid?” into Google, and you might find a load of thoughtful, expert advice mixed in with a bunch of weird, not-so-helpful links. If you are worried that entering those words into a ...

Could complex beliefs like paranoia have roots in something as basic as vision? A new Yale study finds evidence that they might. When completing a visual perception task, in which participants had to ...

Music therapy can improve negative symptoms of schizophrenia, such as lack of motivation, reclusiveness, and isolation, according to a review of previously published literature, presented at the ...

One evening in the fall of 2009, my son Zach, a sophomore at college, returned to our old Hollywood Hills home to study for his exams and share a spaghetti bolognese supper. "I made it just the way ...

The TV was talking to me. I was in the midst of a delusion that the news anchors on CNN were operatives of a shadow government run by the Clintons. Every time I crossed the living room of my father’s ...

Music therapy improves negative symptoms of schizophrenia, such as lack of motivation, reclusiveness, and isolation, a new review of the literature suggests. Although the study had conflicting results ...