What Is Childhood Schizophrenia? What Causes Childhood Schizophrenia?

Childhood schizophrenia, also known as childhood-onset schizophrenia or early-onset schizophrenia is basically the same as schizophrenia in adults, but its onset occurs earlier in life. In some cases the patient may be ten years old, or even younger. Childhood schizophrenia can have a serious impact on the child’s ability to function properly.

What Is Childhood Schizophrenia? What Causes Childhood Schizophrenia?

J&J paid kickbacks to hike sales of schizophrenia drug: prosecutors

J&J paid kickbacks to hike sales of schizophrenia drug: prosecutors

U.S. prosecutors said Friday that health care giant Johnson&Johnson paid tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks so nursing homes would put more patients on its blockbuster schizophrenia medicine and other drugs.

Epilepsy Drugs May Trigger Schizophrenia

Drugs given to prevent seizures in epileptic children may contribute to the development of schizophrenia later in life, according to researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center.

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Young schizophrenic at her mind's mercy

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January Schofield has schizophrenia. Potent psychiatric drugs in doses that would stagger most adults seem to skip off her. She is among the rarest of the rare: a child seemingly born mentally ill.

Older schizophrenia drug safer than more widely prescribed ones, study says

Schizophrenics taking the first -- and cheapest -- of a new generation of antipsychotic medications, clozapine, were less likely to suffer premature death than patients taking the newer, costlier and more widely prescribed antipsychotic drugs Seroquel, Risperdal and Zyprexa, says a study published in the British medical journal Lancet.

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