ON MENTAL ILLNESS:Mood Disorders 
Berkeley Daily Planet
Yet, I have also been diagnosed with a mood disorder. I experience chronic anxiety and depression on a daily basis, and they have become part of my more recent diagnosis: Schizoaffective Disorder. This diagnosis means that I have psychotic problems and ...

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Schizophrenia With Panic Disorder May Be a Distinct Subtype 
Clinical Psychiatry News Digital Network
In all, 165 of these study subjects were diagnosed as having either schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder without any accompanying anxiety (the schizophrenia-only group), whereas 39 had comorbid panic disorder (the panic-schizophrenia group) and 51 ...

 

Gifts of the MAGI in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder 
Science Daily (press release)
Led by principal investigator and senior author Dr. Silvia Paddock, they examined genetic variations in families with bipolar affective disorder, schizophrenia, and schizoaffective disorder. These disorders have high overlapping genetic risk and are ...

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Gifts of the MAGI in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder 
Medical Xpress
Led by principal investigator and senior author Dr. Silvia Paddock, they examined genetic variations in families with bipolar affective disorder, schizophrenia, and schizoaffective disorder. These disorders have high overlapping genetic risk and are ...

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DSM-5 Field Trials Generate Mixed Results 
Medscape
"We really challenged schizophrenia at [the trial sites] because we gave them a set of options that included not only schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder but also attenuated psychosis syndrome, schizotypal personality disorder, and borderline ...

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Autism and Schizophrenia Genes linked 
dailyRx
Scientists have discovered an unexpected overlap between genes implicated in autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders with mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. Writing in the April 27 issue of the journal Cell, the team's findings support the ...

 

Carter House: 'It helps me cope' 
Salisbury Post
He was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder. Before coming to Carter House in Salisbury, he'd been in and out of the hospital, he says. Now, he's managing his mental illness, living by himself and receiving plenty of support from Carter House, ...

 

Sacramento man gets 18 years for killing college roommate from Santa Clara 
San Jose Mercury News
He will only serve a prison term if doctors find Jones recovers his sanity. An evaluation by two court-appointed psychiatrists found Jones to be legally insane, having suffered from schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder at the time of the attack.

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Psychiatric Mislabeling Is Bad for Your Mental Health 
Huffington Post
The diagnoses that are most often harmfully misapplied are schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder, ADHD, and autism. The most frequent cause of overdiagnosis is a clinician jumping to a rash conclusion based on insufficient evidence.

 

Guelph dad struggles with daughter's illness 
Guelph Mercury
He said she was diagnosed as bipolar with schizoaffective disorder and experienced dramatic mood swings and losses of reality. She was prescribed medications but never kept on them long. Paranoia mounted. City police were frequent visitors to their ...