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By Mark Roth, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jan. 29, 2013 This month, President Barack Obama said it again. In his speech on new gun control measures, Mr. Obama repeated the catchphrase of mental health advocates: “We acknowledge that someone with a mental illness is far more likely to be a victim of violent crime than the perpetrator.” […]
By Elyn R. Saks, The New York Times, Jan. 25, 2013 Thirty years ago, I was given a diagnosis of schizophrenia. My prognosis was “grave”: I would never live independently, hold a job, find a loving partner, get married. My home would be a board-and-care facility, my days spent watching TV in a day room […]
By Joe Rojas-Burke, The Oregonian, Friday, March 23, 2012 Published reports on the new drug Fanapt gave it high marks. One medical journal emphasized its “comparable efficacy” to other drugs used to treat schizophrenia, and prominently noted a lower risk of certain side effects. There was no mention that competing drugs outperformed it in three […]
By Sandra G. Boodman, for Kaiser Health News, March 12, 2012 This story was produced in collaboration with The Washington Post. Adriane Fugh-Berman was stunned by the question: Two graduate students who had no symptoms of mental illness wondered if she thought they should take a powerful schizophrenia drug each had been prescribed to treat […]
By Dan Tilkin, KATU.com, Feb. 10, 2012 After 18 months of care, Matthew Ingle, 21, had earned the privilege of taking a supervised walk outside the Oregon State Hospital in Salem. Doctors and therapists at the secure facility that treats the mentally ill thought Ingle was progressing well in his treatment for schizophrenia. On Sept. […]
From The New York Times, November 25, 2011 This is the fourth part in the series “Lives Restored – Managing Severe Mental Illness”, by Benedict Carey. Part One – Rescuing Others – Expert on Mental Illness Reveals Her Own Fight, New York Times, June 23, 2011 Part Two – Living with Voices – Learning to […]
The idea may seem preposterous. But the authors of a new study weren’t laughing when they announced they had identified signs of schizophrenia in babies only a few weeks old. A group of researchers led by John H. Gilmore, MD used ultrasound and MRI to look for brain abnormalities in 26 babies born to mothers […]
By Edward Scott, from the Journal of Clinical Psychology; April 1958, Vol. 14 Issue 2, p156-157, 2p READ – A comparison of Rorschach and Howard ink blot tests on a schizophrenic population from a content point of view, as a PDF This article presents a study to compare Rorschach and Howard ink blot tests on […]
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