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1 October 2013

Please Read - Intro to Schizophrenia News Discussions

Please post and discuss news, and videos, etc. on the latest developments in schizophrenia research, treatments, and related issues. This is the new News section of our forums. Whats really cool about this section is that you post links to youtube or vimeo videos here and they will become embedded in the discussion forum so you can watch the video right here in the forum, then make your comments below in a “reply”.

Welcome to the Schizophrenia Medications and Supplements Forum

Post your questions and comments related to medications, vitamins and supplements that might be helpful for schizophrenia or closely related conditions (psychosis, depression, anxiety, etc.). Site User Guidelines: Our web community actively encourages the following values: Respect and Compassion In order to encourage respect and compassion in our web community, we ask that community members refrain from telling others how they should live their lives (e.g., “get rid of that person” or “get off that medication”). We believe that feedback or advice is most helpful if it is offered as a suggestion or through an example of a personal experience. This teaching by personal example is much more…

Please Read - Intro to General Sz / Psychosis Forum

A Support and Discussion area for people who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia / schizo-affective, or something other than schizophrenia or schizo-Affective, or who think they might have a related disorder or symptoms, or who suffer from hearing voices). This is a general discussion forum. Site User Guidelines: Our web community actively encourages the following values: Respect and Compassion In order to encourage respect and compassion in our web community, we ask that community members refrain from telling others how they should live their lives (e.g., “get rid of that person” or “get off that medication”). We believe that feedback or advice is most helpful if it is offered as a…

Category definition for Creativity

The forum for your creative activities - post your poems, artwork, etc. Please always be respectful, positive and encouraging of others in your comments or support.

Carbonyl stress suggests strategy for treatment-resistant schizophrenia

Patients with schizophrenia who have enhanced carbonyl stress have clinical features associated with treatment resistance, say researchers. Mitsuhiro Miyashita (Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Japan) and team used two biomarkers to identify patients with carbonyl stress: high plasma pentosidine (>62.9 ng/ml) and low pyridoxal levels (<6 ng/ml in men, <4 ng/ml in women). Pyridoxal was representative of vitamin B6 (pyridoxamine). Noting that current medications with the most success in treatment-resistant schizophrenia also carry the most severe adverse effects, the researchers say their findings “support the idea that simple treatments that reduce carbonyl stress, such as …

Bitopertin - New Medication for Next year or two

An interesting new medication coming down the pipe:

New Book - Schizophrenia Who Cares? A Father's Story

A father’s story about his son’s schizophrenia. [image] Read the full news story here: http://yareah.com/2013/10/2299-schizophrenia-cares-fathers-story-features-cover-schizophrenic-artist-adam-grieve/

Schizophrenia finding could lead to therapy

New research at the University of British Columbia on the role of visual processing in schizophrenia could open the door to earlier diagnosis of the illness and potential therapies. “(Schizophrenics) may have difficulty with the simplest tasks like crossing the street safely, reading a map or using the correct change on the bus,” said Miriam Spering, lead author of a recent article in the Journal of Neuroscience. “It occurred to me that many of those problems may be visual.” Many patients struggle with simple visual tasks such as tracking a moving object in a video game and predicting its movements compared with normal subjects tested by Spering. “What we found was a bit of a surprise,” s…

Just seeing if this works

Seems to work just fine.

And a test for this one, too

Yep. Looks good on my end with this one too.

Possible New medication coming for Schizophrenia

This is in the list of possible new medications for schizophrenia (and Alzheimers too):

Good list of New Medications Coming for Mental Health

Here is a good list of new medications for mental health: http://www.phrma.org/sites/default/files/pdf/phrmamedsindevmentalillness2012.pdf

Myelin a key issue in Brains with Schizophrenia

“Myelin insulates the neurons and prevents electrical leakage from inside to outside,” says Ongur. If there is a problem in the myelin, “that would cause abnormal information processing,” he says, “and the connection between neurons in different parts of the brain would suffer.” Their results suggest that the abnormalities happen in both the long projections of neurons called axons, whose primary function is to transmit signals from neuron to neuron, and the myelin. If the axon is an electric wire, the myelin is the plastic covering. Both are important in transmitting information and, in schizophrenia, both appear to function abnormally. [image] Biological Psychiatry Brain scan images sh…

Sample Post to Diagnosed discussion forum

Here is a first sample post. I’ll cover some of the neat features of this software. You can access these discussion areas from your smartphone web browser and they automatically reformat so that they are easy to read and use on your phone. Email updates to your posting. When you post a message - you automatically get sent people’s responses to your post. Email responses: You can also email respond back to people’s comments on your posts in the forum

Great Video Integration in new forum software - Elyn Saks Video

This new software does really good integration of new videos - check out this example. All you do is post in the link - and the forum software turns it into a clickable video - so you don’t need to leave the forum to watch the videos:

Elyn Saks, J.D., Ph.D. - What are the factors that have most helped you live a productive life?

Graphic artist for the new forum

So SzAdmin i would like to offer my services for the new site free of charge, all you would need to do is give me the specifications of the document size and request anything you want, and i would be happy to create graphic art for the site, i have a question though, if this site is non profit, then it would be your choice to allow me to use any images artwork, or copyrighted material. If that is an issue then i can create copyright free images to your specifications. since there is a restriction on this forum for new users to post links, i cannot show you any of my artwork, and there seems to be a problem with copy and pasting photos for some reason. Please let me know if your interested,…