schizophrenia

Scientists have identified a key chemical within the ‘memory’ region of the brain that allows us to suppress unwanted thoughts, helping explain why...

Teenage years can be difficult enough, but for people affected by schizophrenia, this is when symptoms first tend to arise. Dr Kirstie Whitaker (...

Scientists have mapped the structural changes that occur in teenagers’ brains as they develop, showing how these changes may help explain why the...

Immigrant groups experience a high incidence of mental illness. Hannah Jongsma (Department of Psychiatry) is looking at data from an international...

People diagnosed with schizophrenia who are prone to hallucinations are likely to have structural differences in a key region of the brain compared...

A team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge has described for the first time in humans how the epigenome – the suite of molecules...

New study examines thousands of brains from two decades of research to reveal differences between male and female brain structure.

Urban neighbourhoods with high deprivation, population density and inequality found to have higher rates of schizophrenia.