Strengthening Our Marriage With Couples Therapy
The therapist I’m currently seeing is winding up her rotation in December, and I’ve really valued her input and the time I’ve spent with her. I believe now more than ever how helpful and healing...
View ArticleParanoid Schizophrenia: Seeking Relief in Colors
One of the most common subtypes of Schizophrenia is Paranoid Schizophrenia. As per Medical News Today, patients suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, have false delusions. Auditory hallucinations...
View ArticleSleep and Schizophrenia Linked: NCBI
Lack of sleep and schizophrenia are interlinked as per a new study published in National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). It has been documented before that schizophrenia sufferers often...
View ArticleDon’t Hide Schizophrenia; Talk About It
Why should any one want to hide an illness? There is no reason to! After all, we are not living in Victorian times! Readers will be surprised to know, that it is indeed very common not to talk about...
View ArticleSchizophrenia As An Excuse For Violence!
In Ashley Smith’s July 27th blog post, “How Schizophrenia is Portrayed in the Media” , she decries the tendency of the media and the public to use schizophrenia as a scapegoat for many of the recent...
View ArticleSuccessful Celebrities with Schizophrenia
It is not an unknown fact that schizophrenia is one mental disorder, which arouses numerous preconceived notions. Most often, the common perception is that schizophrenics are not completely human!...
View Article1/3rd Schizophrenia Patients Do Not Respond to Medication: AJP
Abnormally high levels of dopamine due to an overactive dopamine system, is generally considered to be cause for the development of schizophrenia. Anti-psychotic medication is considered to be the...
View ArticleTop 10 2012 Parenting Trends
2012; a few more days and the year would close. End-of-the-year and I invariably look forward to knowing about the top 10 trends of the year. While browsing and reading through, I came across the top...
View ArticleSchizophrenia: Psychological Or Metabolic Illness
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder. Over and above their psychological illness, people with schizophrenia are at an increased risk for number of health problems. The rates of obesity, dyslipidemia,...
View ArticleCreating a Culture of Peace : Jennifer Myers
I posted a link to my last guest blog postfor CureTalk on my Linked In profile and there have been several interesting comments about this post. The blog post, titled Schizophrenia As An Excuse For...
View ArticleSudden Death Increases Risk of Bipolar Disorder in Kids by 160%!
The loss of a close family member is always traumatic. But, in case of kids it is more than passing trauma. According to latest research published in the Schizophrenia Research, the death of a...
View ArticleYoga Helps Mental Disorder Sufferers: Duke University Medical Centre
Yoga has shown promising results in major psychiatric disorders such as depression, schizophrenia, ADHD and sleep complaints. This understanding of the positive effect of yoga on mental disorders is...
View ArticleSchizophrenia Patients Heart Disease Risk is More by 200%
There are biological and genetic links between heart disease and schizophrenia. A new study further re-establishes the link between the two. Sharing details of the new study Pschycentral reports that...
View ArticleSchizophrenia Susceptible Gene Different in Caucasians and North Indians
Environmental factors apart from genes play an important role in the development of schizophrenia. Indian Express shares the details of a study that is looking into the presence of schizophrenia...
View ArticleSchizophrenia Triggered by Poor Diet?
What we eat, not only satisfies our hunger pangs, but also plays an equally important part in our physical as well as mental well-being. Recent research re-confirms the findings that a poor diet can...
View ArticleWe Are Capable of Limitless Power
In Elyn Saks’ January 25th New York Times article titled Successful and Schizophrenic, she states that 30 years ago when she was initially diagnosed with schizophrenia, she was given a very “grave”...
View ArticleWhat Do Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, ADHD, Depression and Autism Have in...
Our CureTalk Mental Health Panel Discussion is coming up on Tuesday and I can’t wait! I think it’s going to be wonderful, both for us as panelists and for the listeners. This is the first time I’ve...
View ArticleWhat Are the “Negative” Symptoms of Schizophrenia?
After the CureTalk Mental Health Panel last week I received an email from a woman at Genentech in New York. She inquired if I might be interested in hosting a Q&A with an expert on schizophrenia...
View ArticleCureTalk Interviews Christine, Brave Survivor of PTSD, Schizophrenia &...
Childhood Abuse has serious repercussions. It is the cause of life-long PTSD for Christine. Though the journey has been tough, Christine has won over her PTSD and Schizophrenia and leads a much...
View ArticleQ& A With Dr. Atkinson on the Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia
A few months ago I was contacted by a representative from Genentech to participate in a Q&A with Dr. Sarah Atkinson, a psychiatrist at the Finger Lakes Clinical Research (FLCR) facility located in...
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