Childhood psychosis risk appears to increase significantly among carriers of this gene variant. In A Nutshell First ...

Psychosis refers to a collection of symptoms that affect the mind, where there has been some loss of contact with reality. During an episode of psychosis, a person’s thoughts and perceptions are ...

A team of researchers, including Dr. Charity Morgan, associate professor in the Department of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, collaborated and ...

A new study investigates how anger associated with delusions — not simply being out of touch with reality — is critical in determining whether psychosis turns violent. The research, published in JAMA ...

Recent advances in neuroscience have increasingly implicated oxidative stress in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. Oxidative stress arises from an imbalance between the production of reactive ...

It can be scary to see a loved one experience delusions or hallucinations, a break from reality. But behind these symptoms lies a deeply biological story. Psychosis is not the mystery it used to be.

Schizophrenia is a mental health disorder that causes changes to the way a person thinks, acts, and behaves. People with schizophrenia may have hallucinations, delusions, disorganized behavior, and ...