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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.

Newcastle Herald

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

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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

The Independent UK

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 Record

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

Daily Mirror

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

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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

The Independent UK

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.

Tribune News Service

Karuna Reverses 12% Premarket Gain And Skids To 7-Month Low

Karuna said Monday a third study of its schizophrenia drug succeeded, but KRTX stock reversed early gains and toppled to a seven-month low.

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Jim Gordon, a famed session drummer who was convicted of killing his mother, dies

Jim Gordon, the famed session drummer who backed Eric Clapton and The Beach Boys before being diagnosed with schizophrenia and going to prison for killing his mother, has died. He was 77.

WEKU

Trial for new drug to treat schizophrenia to begin in Wales

The drug, developed by researchers at Cardiff University, has been described as an "exciting leap forward" for people with schizophrenia

Wales Online

I found out my mum had schizophrenia when I was 14. Here’s what I wish I’d known

The stigma surrounding complex mental health is such that Elfy Scott completed a psychology degree to learn more – but even that fell short

The Guardian - AU

Shooting at Nebraska Target highlights gaps in gun laws

The man who entered an Omaha Target with an AR-15-style rifle and began firing before he was killed by police had been repeatedly sent to psychiatric hospitals because of his schizophrenia

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The Independent UK

Recording: Wife told police mentally ill husband had gun

Police in Culver City, California, on Thursday released body camera footage showing events before officers shot an unarmed man diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in the back last year in the Los Angeles suburb

Daily Mirror

Failed asylum seeker who killed woman, 87, he befriended detained at secure hospital

Shahin Darvish-Narenjbon was refused asylum in 2013 after coming to the UK to study, and was experiencing schizophrenia when he strangled and stabbed the woman who had treated him 'like a grandson'

Miami Herald

‘Extreme injustice’: Homeless man with untreated schizophrenia fights 150-year sentence

MIAMI — The crime that Jared Stephens committed is not in dispute.

The Denver Post

Boulder King Soopers shooting suspect showing symptoms of schizophrenia, prosecutor says

DENVER — The man charged with killing 10 people in the 2021 Boulder King Soopers shooting is showing symptoms of schizophrenia, which is keeping him from being found competent to stand trial, according to prosecutors.

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The Walrus

Silent Suffering

Some Canadian medical experts agree that people living with the most severe mental illnesses are not getting the attention or funding they need.

Evening Standard

Paranoid schizophrenic shouted ‘I am God!’ after murdering pensioner weeks after mental health support lapsed

Aaron Cook had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and sectioned in 2020

The Independent UK

Feds to investigate nursing home abuse of antipsychotics

The federal government says it will begin a targeted crackdown on nursing homes’ abuse of antipsychotic drugs and misdiagnoses of schizophrenia in patients

Reason

Psychiatrists Do Not Know What They Are Treating

The mysteries of the mind are harder to unravel than psychiatrists pretend.

Manchester Evening News

Man died after setting fire to armchair following long mental health and addiction battle

Mark Bramall had been suffering with paranoid schizophrenia for more than 30 years

Los Angeles Times

A world gone mad: Schizophrenia and a journey through California’s failed mental health system

LOS ANGELES — Standing in the dappled sunlight of a Westside city park, Anthony Mazzucca was trying to make a point. The words flew out of him, like birds, a flock of words. He laughed at the thought.

Los Angeles Times

Schizophrenia is a black box. How — and why — we reported Anthony's story

LOS ANGELES — One cool spring afternoon, Anthony Mazzucca and his mother, Mary Liciaga, stopped into a Starbucks in Marina del Rey. They had just come from an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, and Mary had promised her son a coffee.

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