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DARK SECRETS: 7 - The Real Truth

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

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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

The Independent UK

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’

The Independent UK

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

Daily Mirror

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

The Independent UK

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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.

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

Daily Record

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.

Chicago Sun-Times

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

Wales Online

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.

Chicago Sun-Times

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 Hindu

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.

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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

Dynamite News

Placenta plays an important role in genetic risk of schizophrenia: Study

A recent study headed by the Lieber Institute for Brain Development found that more than 100 genes linked to the risk of schizophrenia appear to induce disease owing to their activity in the placenta rather than the developing brain. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Study: Schizophrenia patients' symptoms grow by disrupted sleep, wakefulness trends

Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and those from Italy described common patterns of sleep disturbances and irregularities in daily rhythms of rest and activity across patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorder, or SSD, in a paper that was just published in Molecular Psychiatry. Read further on Dynamite News:

The Guardian - UK

The definition of mental health has been widened so much that it’s now almost meaningless

In our newly aware world, serious conditions such as psychosis and schizophrenia are overlooked

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The Guardian - UK

Call for psychosis treatment overhaul after evidence of autoimmune trigger

Patients to be treated with medicines used for arthritis and lupus in relaunch of pioneering UK trial

The Independent UK

Rise of the zimmer-dads: Doctors warn of risks for older fathers as Robert De Niro, 79, welcomes seventh child

Studies have suggested heightened risk of conditions such as schizophrenia and childhood leukemia

The Independent UK

Rise of the zimmer-dads: Doctors explain risk of fathering children in older age as Robert De Niro, 79, reveals seventh child

Studies have suggested heightened risk of conditions such as schizophrenia and childhood leukemia

Inverse

A Long-Overlooked Brain Phenomenon May Make You More Open-Minded

We’re starting to understand how the brain adapts to new situations.

The Independent UK

Cannabis addiction appears to have ‘serious’ long-term effect in young men

‘Study adds to growing understanding that cannabis use is not harmless’

The Guardian - AU

Mother of man shot dead by Brisbane police feared he could hurt someone and ‘end up dead’, inquest hears

Inquest hears Mohamad Ikraam Bahram’s mother told health workers he was not taking his schizophrenia medication before attack on tourist

The Guardian - AU

Man shot dead by police in Brisbane’s CBD did not take schizophrenia medication that day, inquest hears

Queensland police tells coroner it found officers acted appropriately in 2020 incident that left Mohamad Ikraam Bahram dead

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