Psychosis news and clinical updates, with links to original sources.
A review of Spanish court cases highlights family victims and limited compensation in a small subset of homicide cases.
Unwanted thoughts about infant harm can be deeply upsetting, but the research described here found they were not linked to greater physical aggression.
A new paper argues that warm, humanlike chatbots can blur the line between a digital tool and a relationship.
A planned study will test an MRI-based feedback tool in young adults at clinical high risk of psychosis.
A large DNA study offers new clues about brain pathways shared by obsessive-compulsive disorder and chronic tic disorders.
A review of 149 studies found that people who used cannabis developed psychosis earlier on average than nonusers.
A three-month study found that many Oregon clients reported improved mental health and well-being, but it cannot prove the services caused those changes.
A preprint study of 2,363 clients at regulated Oregon and Colorado service centers tracked self-reported outcomes two weeks after psilocybin sessions.
In one Israeli hospital cohort, scans and EEGs rarely found an explanation unless a child had neurological or unusual clinical features.
Postmortem brain research found lower chemical tagging at a key stress-response gene in people with schizophrenia.
A large medical-record study found a strong association over five years, but it cannot show that one condition causes the other.
A review of 26 studies found small differences in certain blood immune-receptor signals across diagnostic groups.
A small brain-imaging study found an association that may help researchers investigate why cannabis use and psychosis symptoms can occur together.