In something CNN is calling an “exercise in empathy,” Anderson Cooper recently underwent a simulation for schizophrenia. Here’s how it worked. Cooper wore headphones for an afternoon which played ...

LONGVIEW, Texas -- Social worker Roy Brady said investing about 10 minutes to sit through a simulated schizophrenia experience gave him a new appreciation of what people with the mental illness go ...

If you have schizophrenia, you’re more likely to have physical health problems that could affect your life expectancy. Because of this, experts continue to study treatment and lifestyle options that ...

If you have schizophrenia, regular exercise can be a powerful tool. Alongside standard treatments like medication and talk therapy, exercise can have many benefits for schizophrenia, including ...

But, for someone actually suffering from schizophrenia, the solution is not as simple as removing a virtual simulation headset. On Monday, the Rainbow Center offered staff, students and the media the ...

It's called mental imbalance for a reason. Sanity hangs, in part, in the gentle balance of chemicals strung together within regions of the brain in an intricate matrix. In schizophrenia, the matrix is ...

Tsukuba, Japan - Although schizophrenia is increasingly understood as a neurodevelopmental disorder, environmental factors are known to play an important role in the disease onset and progression. But ...

Recent research has shown that social cognition training can benefit patients with schizophrenia, and a new study suggests that adding regular aerobic exercise sessions substantially increases the ...

Although schizophrenia is increasingly understood as a neurodevelopmental disorder, environmental factors are known to play an important role in the disease onset and progression. But now, researchers ...

“Exercise is not a replacement for psychiatric medication for the treatment of schizophrenia. However, exercise is a low-risk, worthwhile adjunctive [add-on] intervention,” says Divya Hedgren, MD, a ...

Researchers have found that low-intensity exercise, which is associated with improved mental function, has a protective effect against symptoms of schizophrenia in adolescent mice. These findings may ...