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First-Episode Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder: What’s the Best Approach?

Early intervention services—or treatment as usual—for people suffering from an initial episode of schizophrenia spectrum disorder? That was the question tackled by investigators in Copenhagen.

In Patients with Schizophrenia, Should Retinal Changes be Monitored?

Individuals with schizophrenia have reduced inner retinal thicknesses and altered retinovascular indices, which may be early evidence of future neurodegeneration.

Promoting Healthy Lifestyles in Patients with Mental Illness

Investigators demonstrated that cash rewards for healthy lifestyle program participation by people with schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses can impact health and outcomes.

In Psychiatric Conditions, Genetic Risk Factors Affect Diagnostic Trajectories

With a follow-up period of 13 years, this study found that genetic risk patterns were systematically and meaningfully associated with diagnostic trajectories of major depression, bipolar disorder, other nonaffective psychosis, and schizophrenia.