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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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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

The Guardian - UK

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:

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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

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 Guardian - 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

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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

The Independent UK

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

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

Inverse

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

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

The Independent UK

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

The Guardian - AU

Dear Abby: Man, 40, hasn’t dated in decades, yearns for a wife

His love life stopped when he was diagnosed with schizophrenia at 15; now he’s well but lacks the self-confidence to talk to women.

Chicago Sun-Times

Verdict in Shortland murder trial over stabbing of Bobby Palmer

There was no dispute Zack Mavin was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia.

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Mother who starved son, three, to death found not guilty due to insanity

Olabisi Abubakar was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and mind was ‘thrown off balance’ during Covid lockdown

The Independent UK

Jury considers verdicts in trial of mother accused of fasting son to death

Prosecution and defence barristers have urged jurors to return verdicts of not guilty by reason of insanity.

The Conversation

Cognitive flexibility is essential to navigating a changing world – new research in mice shows how your brain learns new rules

Being flexible and learning to adapt when the world changes is something you practice every day. Whether you run into a new construction site and have to reroute your commute or download a new streaming app and have to relearn how to find your favorite show, changing familiar behaviors in…

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Paranoid and delusional: accused had explosive device, two knives and a hammer

Zack Mavin pleaded not guilty to murder and attempted armed robbery, raising a defence of mental health or cognitive impairment in the stabbing death of Robert "Bobby" Palmer.

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The Best Minds review – rich examination of madness and the way the west deals with it

Jonathan Rosen’s heart-rending, thoughtful memoir sheds light on his childhood friend’s schizophrenia and attributes his shocking decline to America’s politicised mental health system

The Independent UK

Sickening video shows man with schizophrenia left naked in jail cell for weeks before he starved to death

‘Josh McLemore wasn’t a criminal. He was mentally ill and in crisis. He was out of touch with reality and needed help,’ an attorney for the family said

Daily Record

Scientists claim optical illusion can help detect mental health condition

The odd video clip can detect if a person has the condition, according to a team of German scientists, with the brain processing the images in different ways.

Daily Mirror

Optical illusion experts say detects if you have a serious mental health condition

German specialists say a 'hollow mask' illusion can help to determine whether or not you have schizophrenia as sufferers will not be fooled by it due to how their brains work

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Patients given aripiprazole ‘should be told of gambling addiction risks’

Expert urges greater monitoring of side-effect of drug used to treat depression, psychosis and schizophrenia

The Independent UK

Mental health issue arises as synagogue massacre trial nears

Defense lawyers say a former truck driver about to face trial for shooting to death congregants in a Pittsburgh synagogue more than four years ago has schizophrenia and structural and functional brain impairments

Tribune News Service

Lisa Jarvis: Schizophrenia drug may offer much-needed progress

Next year, doctors might finally have something new to offer people who suffer from schizophrenia: a much-needed drug that can better improve their symptoms without the side effects that too often cause them to stop taking their medications.

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