Schizophrenia is a serious mental health disorder that can affect anyone—regardless of sex, gender, ethnicity, or age. And while it is not as common as anxiety or depression, millions of people have ...

In children with familial high risk of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, evidence of motor impairment skills may indicate neurodevelopmental vulnerability for psychosis. “Motor abnormalities have ...

Men who are relatively older at their first child's birth may be more likely than younger first-time dads to have a child who eventually develops schizophrenia, hint results of a large Danish study.

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 ...

Little girl covers her face with her hands isolated Data for this analysis were sourced from the Danish High Risk and Resilience Study. Participants were identified through the Danish Civil ...

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 ...

Children of older fathers are more likely to develop schizophrenia in later life, concludes new research published on bmj.com today. These findings add weight to the theory that accumulating mutations ...

In a new study that assessed seventeen research reports from eleven countries, scientists determined that cat ownership has a significant link to the risk of schizophrenia. When children lived in a ...

Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder run in families. Children who have a parent with either of these disorders are at a substantially higher risk of developing that disorder than children without such ...