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Creative minds are vulnerable to mental illness – but magicians escape the curse

Can you think of a comedian, actor, poet or writer who suffered from mental illness? Maybe the actor Robin Williams or comedian Stephen Fry came to your mind. Perhaps it was the writer Virginia Woolf. All three have had well-documented struggles with bipolar disorder.

The Conversation

How An Extinct Human Ancestor’s Gene May Affect Our Mental Health

The genetic variant makes people more susceptible to conditions such as anorexia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizophrenia and depression.

Zenger

Parents haunted by sound of police shooting their son

Todd McKenzie was experiencing psychosis when he was shot dead by police after a nine-hour stand-off. But a coronial inquest has brought more pain than answers.

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The perils of putting off fatherhood: why it poses risks to children’s physical and mental health

Men have biological clocks too. Fertility drops with age, and the likelihood of offspring having conditions such as autism, schizophrenia and leukaemia rises

The Guardian - UK

Breakthrough In Neurological Disorder Treatment For Children

Inflammation in the developing brain may be linked to autism and schizophrenia, opening doors for new treatments.

Zenger

AI language models could help diagnose schizophrenia

New tool could use automated analysis of language to diagnose debilitating condition

Evening Standard

Brain cells, interrupted: How some genes may cause autism, epilepsy and schizophrenia

Researchers have identified 46 genes that can disrupt a process that is critical to early brain development. The finding could help scientists find new treatments for disorders including autism.

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California's new mental health court rolls out to high expectations and uncertainty

An alternative mental health court program designed to fast-track people with untreated schizophrenia into housing and medical care is starting in San Francisco and six other California counties

The Independent UK

Study discovers genetic links between schizophrenia, heart disease risk factors

According to new research, people with schizophrenia have a hereditary tendency to smoke and a lower genetic risk of obesity. Read further on Dynamite News:

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A moment that changed me: I was outraged by the risks facing my children – so we moved to the country

Black Caribbean people born in the UK have a higher chance of schizophrenia, and city life is a factor. So when a chance came to live in Somerset, I leapt at it

The Guardian - UK

Mind ki Baat, Ep 9: Schizophrenia

This is the ninth episode of Mind ki Baat, a Newslaundry podcast with a neurodivergent host with a focus on the invisible epidemic of mental health issues in society today.

Newslaundry

Strange, two-faced brain cells confirmed to exist, and they may play a role in schizophrenia

Researchers have confirmed the existence of an odd type of brain cell that other neuroscientists once thought might be only a technical quirk or error.

LiveScience

‘We have hope for some breakthroughs’: can we change the way we treat schizophrenia?

Scientists are cautiously optimistic that new approaches to treating the disabling condition may improve the lives of those affected by it

The Guardian - UK

Appellate court rules that Missouri man with schizophrenia can be executed after all

The planned execution of a 45-year-old Missouri man with schizophrenia is back on after an appellate court reversed course Saturday

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Caesars Palace hostage-taker named as fugitive Matthew Mannix

A probable cause affidavit obtained by The Independent revealed that Mr Mannix was allegedly experiencing ‘drug-induced schizophrenia’

Daily Mirror

Nan beaten to death with doorstop by 'devil-obsessed' grandson who said he was 'Lucifer'

In the weeks before the tragedy, Marlene McCabe pleaded with medics to get help for her grandson Conor who had displayed 'bizarre and worrying behaviour' due to untreated schizophrenia

The Independent UK

Doctors give mixed testimony on whether tests show brain damage in the Pittsburgh synagogue killer

Jurors considering a death sentence for Pittsburgh synagogue killer Robert Bowers heard mixed testimony from doctors about whether medical scans showed any significant brain damage — a central point of contention in his lawyers’ strategy to spare his life

Daily Record

Mum stabbed multiple times in front of young son after turning to face stranger

Attacker Hasan Arif was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia after the attack in August 2020.

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Daily Record

Teen 'ferociously' stabbed young mum as five-year-old son watched in horror

Hasan Arif, who started behaving erratically in the days leading up to the horror assault, has since been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia

Chicago Sun-Times

Dear Abby: I’d love to get child support from ex with schizophrenia

The boy’s mentally ill mother is working now, and his father says extra income from her would really improve the child’s life.

Wales Online

My son stabbed a random stranger to death days after being discharged from a psychiatric unit

David Fleet, 20, stabbed a 71-year-old man on a footpath near his home in Ceredigion

Chicago Sun-Times

City ordered to pay $100,000 to lawyers of man body-slammed by Chicago police officer

The Chicago Police Department ruled Officer Jerald Williams used “massively excessive force” against a man with schizophrenia who was stopped for drinking in public, but city lawyers withheld those records.

The Hindu

Schizophrenia isn’t hereditary, can be cured, say psychiatrists

Those suffering from schizophrenia can make a complete recovery by seeking the help of psychiatrists, experts said on the occasion of World Schizophrenia Health Day on Wednesday (May 24).

The Conversation

Five rare and unusual psychiatric syndromes – including one where people believe they are dead

Most people are familiar with psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, but some conditions are so rare that many psychiatrists won’t come across a single case in their professional lives. Here I present five of the rarest – and strangest – syndromes known to psychiatry.

The Guardian - UK

Awareness of mental health is not enough

By reducing ‘mental health’ to an umbrella term, we often neglect those with severe problems such as psychosis and schizophrenia

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