There exists a dilemma in coping with the possible diagnosis of schizophrenia in one's child or adolescent. Labeling and pathologizing one's child is dialectically opposed to obtaining a diagnosis ...

Children born to parents with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder have a higher risk of developing psychopathology than children born to parents without these conditions. The corresponding study as ...

The children of schizophrenic women may have more to worry about than developing schizophrenia. Research conducted by the Swedish High-Risk Project, a 22-year study of schizophrenic mothers and their ...

Children who are overweight or obese are more likely to develop schizophrenia as adults, according to a recent study. But adults with excess weight seem to have a lower risk of both schizophrenia and ...

Older fathers are much more likely than younger ones to have children with schizophrenia, a study suggests, adding mental illness to the list of diseases linked with advancing paternal age.While ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Doctors have long recommended iron supplements for the support of a healthy pregnancy, but new research adds even more weight to the sage advice: By increasing her iron ...

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 ...

Schizophrenia affects 1% of the global population and is caused by a complex interplay between at least 280 genes and ...