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Focus on Geriatric Psychiatry: Schizophrenia in Later Life ...  -  Feb 28, 2008
Psychiatric Services (subscription)Approximately 85% of persons with schizophrenia have onset before age 45 (2), and we focus here on persons with early-onset schizophrenia who have grown old

Focus on Geriatric Psychiatry: Schizophrenia in Later Life ...  -  Feb 28, 2008
Psychiatric Services (subscription)A tripartite classification system of early-onset schizophrenia, late-onset schizophrenia, and very-late-onset schizophrenia-like psychosis has been

Comparison Of Antipsychotic Treatments In Adolescents With ...  -  Feb 28, 2008
Science Daily (press release)The article is "Clozapine and 'High-Dose' Olanzapine in Refractory Early-Onset Schizophrenia: A 12-Week Randomized and Double-Blind Comparison" by Sanjiv

Neuroplasticity in Schizophrenia and Atypical Antipsychotics  -  Feb 5, 2008
Medscape (subscription)Mapping adolescent brain change reveals a dynamic wave of accelerated gray matter loss in very early-onset schizophrenia. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA.

Guns, Adolescents, and Mental Illness  -  Feb 1, 2008
Am J Psychiatry (subscription)Early-onset schizophrenia is often associated with dysfunction in cognitive, social, and motor domains that predates both the first psychotic symptoms and

A risky drug may get wider market  -  Dec 15, 2007
St. Petersburg Times,A study published in August compared several atypical antipsychotics in the treatment of early onset schizophrenia. Kids on Zyprexa gained so much weight,

Out of the Wild  -  Oct 10, 2007
AlaskaReport,Daily News outdoors editor Craig Medred outlined the case for early onset schizophrenia in this column published in 1996. There's a lot of other comment on

Olanzapine and Pediatric Bipolar Disorder: Evidence for Efficacy ...  -  Sep 26, 2007
Am J Psychiatry (subscription)In a recently completed publicly funded multisite trial of different antipsychotic agents for early onset schizophrenia spectrum disorders, the olanzapine

Sulcal thickness as a vulnerability indicator for schizophrenia  -  Aug 31, 2007
British Journal of Psychiatry (subscription),Paillère-Martinot, ML, et al (2003) Paracingulate sulcus morphology in men with early-onset schizophrenia. British Journal of Psychiatry, 182, 228 -232.

Neuroimaging and other neurobiological indices in schizophrenia ...  -  Jul 31, 2007
British Journal of Psychiatry (subscription),To the extent that one can generalise from very early-onset schizophrenia in children to the more typical presentation in young adulthood, there is initial

Mental health system failing  -  May 7, 2007
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette,If we are to learn anything from these two tragedies, it is that early onset schizophrenia accompanied by extreme paranoia is dangerous, particularly when

Biological Markers and the Future of Early Diagnosis and Treatment ...  -  Feb 26, 2007
Psychiatric Times,Minor physical anomalies have consistently been identified in those with early-onset schizophrenia and have helped differentiate patients from controls.

Juvenile-Onset Schizophrenia: Assessment, Neurobiology, and Treatment  -  Dec 29, 2006
British Journal of Psychiatry (subscription),I would recommend this to practising clinicians who, even if infrequently, see patients with early-onset schizophrenia, be they in child and adolescent or

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