Schizophrenia News & Features
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Can I Drink Alcohol While Taking Schizophrenia Medications?
If you have schizophrenia, you may wonder if it’s OK to drink alcohol when taking medications to manage your condition. For most people, that’s not a good idea.
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Is Kombucha Good for Schizophrenia?
Kombucha is a fermented drink with bold health claims. So, is kombucha really good for people with schizophrenia?
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Support Animals for Schizophrenia
Animals are on the new frontier of therapy to help people with severe mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, manage their symptoms.
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Wellness Apps for Schizophrenia
Mobile apps may help someone with schizophrenia stick to a medication schedule; keep tabs on mood, sleep, and day-to-day functioning; and even manage symptoms such as hallucinations.
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Schizophrenia and Life Expectancy
People with schizophrenia tend to have lower life expectancy than those who don’t have the disease. Schizophrenia itself isn’t life-threatening. But people who have it are more likely to have other health conditions that raise their chances of death.
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The Best Videos, Blogs, and Books on Schizophrenia
These resources can help you navigate your symptoms and challenges and find inspiration, hope, and knowledge that you can and will get better.
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Managing Schizophrenia With Family and Work
There’s no one way to live with schizophrenia. The symptoms and challenges are different for each person with the illness. But your life is about more than your diagnosis. Having a support system, family or other loved ones, and a fulfilling job can allow you to live with schizophrenia on your own terms and achieve your personal recovery goals.
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Vitamins and Supplements That May Help With Schizophrenia
If you or a loved one has schizophrenia, you may wonder whether medication alone is enough to treat or prevent symptoms like hallucinations, delusions, and aggression. Learn more about what the research shows and what doctors recommend.
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Does CBD Oil Help With Schizophrenia?
Scientists are studying CBD oil for schizophrenia and dozens of other health conditions. Here’s what to know if you have schizophrenia and are thinking of trying CBD.
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What’s the Link Between Alcohol and Schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia raises your odds of another serious condition: misusing alcohol. Alcohol can also trigger psychosis. Learn more about the link between schizophrenia and alcohol, and about treatment options
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Schizophrenia Meds Safe Long-Term, Study Finds
The average life expectancy of people with schizophrenia is 10 to 20 years less than in the general population. There has long been concern that one reason is long-term use of antipsychotic drugs to ease symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations.
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Could Family Dog Lower Child's Schizophrenia Risk?
New research suggests that growing up with a dog may lower schizophrenia risk by as much as 24%.
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Dating With Schizophrenia
Dating when you have schizophrenia can be a challenge. But your condition doesn’t have to stand in the way of a happy, healthy relationship. Get tips on easing into the dating game.
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What Schizophrenia Symptoms and Stigma Feel Like
Experts and people with schizophrenia describe what it’s like to live with this debilitating mental illness.
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Magnetic Brain Stimulation May Quiet 'Voices'
Noninvasive treatment worked for a third of patients in study, though effects were temporary
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No, Your Cat Isn't a Threat to Your Mental Health
Study designed to allay fears that kitty poop parasites raise odds for schizophrenia, other disorders
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Clues to Schizophrenia's Origins Uncovered
Analysis found gene variant prompts too much 'pruning' in brain during teen years
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Drug Helps Those With Tough-to-Treat Schizophrenia
Clozapine already approved for use after other antipsychotics don't work
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Schizophrenics Face Much Higher Early Death Risk
Lifestyle habits such as smoking greatly up the odds for heart disease, cancer and COPD, study finds
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Talk Therapy Effective to Treat Schizophrenia
Talk Therapy Effective to Treat Schizophrenia
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Brain Inflammation May Be Linked to Schizophrenia
Findings raise possibility of testing, early treatment, researchers say
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FDA Clears Long-Lasting Drug for Schizophrenia
The FDA has approved a version of the antipsychotic drug aripiprazole that adults with schizophrenia can take every 4-6 weeks. WebMD has the details.
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Brain Scans May Take Guesswork Out of Schizophrenia Treatment
Goal is to help physicians make better drug choices for psychotic patients
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Omega-3s May Protect Against Psychosis
Omega-3 supplements may help protect young people at a high risk of schizophrenia from getting the condition, according to a small study.
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FDA Approves New Drug for Schizophrenia, Major Depression
Medication can be used as an add-on therapy to antidepressants
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