Credit: Getty Images Schizophrenia is a type of psychotic disorder that affects how a person thinks and interprets reality. Like schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder is also a type of psychotic ...

Advocating for rights for people with schizophrenia is a tough lifestyle. In fact, there are only a handful of activists in the United States who have successfully executed writing a memoir, starting ...

In a genetic association study, investigators integrated data from genome-wide association studies of various disorders with retinal transcriptomic data. Findings revealed that the polygenic risk of ...

Schizophrenia medication falls under two main categories: older, first-generation, or "typical" antipsychotics and newer drugs for schizophrenia known as second-generation or "atypical" antipsychotics ...

Schizophrenia and bipolar I disorder are two conditions that have many differences between them. A class of medicines called antipsychotics can be used to treat both conditions but may cause unwanted ...

Today, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first new type of drug for schizophrenia in decades. It's called KarXT, and its main advantage is that it has fewer side effects than current drugs ...

New research provides a map for how the genes known to increase risk of schizophrenia affect specific cells within the brain -- information researchers hope can drive the development of new, effective ...

Pea-sized brains grown in a lab have for the first time revealed the unique way neurons might misfire due to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, psychiatric ailments that affect millions of people ...

Schizoaffective disorder and schizophrenia have several symptoms in common, like hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking or behavior. But although these conditions may resemble each other ...