Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Schizophrenia ( or ) is a mental disorder characterized by a breakdown of thought processes and by poor emotional responsiveness.
Read More at Wikipedia ›Pedro Hernandez has confessed to killing the 6-year-old boy at the heart of one of the nation's most prominent missing-child cases, police say.
And he has schizophrenia and a history of hallucinations, his lawyer says.Court-appointed doctors are still assessing Hernandez's mental state, and it's unclear how much it will factor in the case charging him with the 1979 murder of young Etan Patz.But if his psychiatric record becomes an issue, he'll encounter a justice system that seeks to strike a balance between recognizing mental illness and holding people responsible for their actions — a balance that has shifted back and forth over more than a century and a half.Hernandez, 51, remained in a psychiatric hospital Tuesday as authorities continued trying to flesh out his startling admission in a case that galvanized the movement to publicize the problem of missing children. Meanwhile, Etan's father made clear that the attention to the case since Hernandez's arrest last week had taken a toll...The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first generic versions of a drug used to treat schizophrenia, the government organization announced Wednesday.Peopl...
A clinical psychologist for a federal prison hospital testified Thursday that a former street preacher charged in the abduction of Elizabeth Smart believes he will f...
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Two large surveys of the human genome indicate that it may be much harder than scientists once thought to map out all the genetic mutations that underpin common huma...
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Cannabis causes the same type of chaotic brain activity seen in people with schizophrenia , British scientists found.Researchers from Bristol University, in western ...
Johnson & Johnson said on Friday it has recalled 16,000 bottles of its Risperdal schizophrenia treatment and another 24,000 bottles of a generic formulation of the m...
A federal appeals court considered Wednesday whether a paranoid schizophrenic should be forcibly medicated so that he can stand trial on bank robbery charges in a ca...
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The right-wing extremist who confessed to killing 77 people in a bomb and shooting rampage in Norway is not criminally insane, a psychiatric assessment found Tuesday...
The man who has confessed to killing the 6-year-old boy at the heart of one of the nation's most prominent missing-child cases remained in a psychiatric hospital as ...
The mental illness schizophrenia affects over two million American adults. The disorder often causes inappropriate and unpredictable behavior, making it difficult fo...
A drifter accused of terrorizing a struggling city by faking car trouble then stabbing strangers who came to his aid was quickly convicted of murder Tuesday after ju...
Mental health experts who interviewed a Michigan serial stabbings suspect testified Friday that he revealed a pattern of planning, control and lack of empathy for hi...
Troy Anderson is a mentally ill inmate in isolation at the Colorado State Penitentiary, deemed for more than a decade too dangerous to be among other offenders.His l...
A Chinese immigrant who beheaded and cannibalized a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus in western Canada four years ago thought he was attacking an alien, according...
New information from police says a northern Nevada gunman feared demons were after him in the months before his deadly rampage at a Carson City IHOP restaurant.The N...
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