Jani Schofield: Childhood Schizophrenia, Living With the Illness

Jani Schofield is a seven-year-old girl living with childhood Schizophrenia, and her story was chronicled on the Oprah Winfrey show today. The Oprah show spent one week with the Schofield family and saw just how...

Human Brains Make Their Own 'Marijuana'

ScienceDaily (Apr. 20, 2009) — U.S. and Brazilian scientists have discovered that the brain manufactures proteins that act like marijuana at specific receptors in the brain itself. This discovery may lead to new marijuana-like drugs for managing pain, stimulating appetite,...

Beheader Vince Li Found Criminally Not Responsible

VINCE LI, the schizophrenic man who decapitated a fellow passenger on a Canadian Greyhound bus last year and proceeded to eat his flesh, has been found to be insane and will not be criminalized for his acts,...

Murder for Christmas: AZ Schizophrenic Man Bludgeoned Youngsters

TWO LITTLE BOYS did not get what they wanted for Christmas.  They never got the chance to open their gifts or play with new toys Christmas morning.  They were bludgeoned beyond recovery Tuesday...

Try Again - National Survivors of Suicide Day Nov. 22, 2008

This is a music video I edited together for the hip hop artist SEEIN from Miami. It is about reaching out for help with the goal of preventing suicide. At the end people are presented with the 1-800-SUICIDE...

Poor School Performance Link to Schizophrenia

UK and Swedish researchers who followed more than 900,000 schoolchildren born between 1973 and 1983, have found a correlation between developing schizophrenia and low marks.   " The researchers, from the...

Tattered Reality: One Man's Schizophrenia Leads to a Brutal Death

Preface:  I was recently written a note criticizing this piece, claiming I have an agenda, and questioning how I could defend a murderer.  This is a quick response.  I wrote this piece after spending an afternoon with a lifelong friend of Johnson, who was there...

Man Fatally Stabbed in Arizona Mall

Acknowledged schizophrenic Bernard Allen has admitted to the fatal stabbing of a man in an Arizona shopping mall."Something seemed wrong with Bernard Allen as he went to the register and asked for a butcher's knife. Employees at the store noted Allen was acting strangely,...

The link between Toxoplasmosa, animals, and schizophrenia

"Findings from what is believed to be the largest comparison of blood samples collected from healthy individuals and people with schizophrenia suggest that infection with the common Toxoplasma gondii parasite,...

Mental health group wants training for emergency responders

This is an extremely important issue that's rarely discussed in the media.  A lot of the violent encounters between police and the mentally ill would be reduced by such a program. My vote is for effective talking instead of Tasers."The Canadian Mental Health Association...

People with mental health issues find home in North Vancouver

It's great to see this problem getting some attention in Vancouver. The cynic in me says it's to "clean up the streets" before the Olympics, but then again, so long as something is done, does the motivation matter?"Residents are starting to move into a Chesterfield Avenue...

Is Cancer Written into our DNA?

Perhaps, this is why People who lead a healthy lifestyle die of Cancer and other ailments contrary to the lifestyle they choose.  Yet, persons who lead an unhealthy lifestyle remain relatively healthy all...

Smoking Marijuana Increases Schizophrenia Risk

LONDON – Study links using marijuana to higher the risks of having a psychotic illness like schizophrenia. British researchers cites government statistics that shows as much as 20% of their youth involved in using marijuana that is one of the most popular illegal...

Cannabis 'raises psychosis risk'

"Cannabis users are 40% more likely than non-users to suffer a psychotic illness such as schizophrenia, say UK experts. Writing in the Lancet, a team led by Dr Stanley Zammit from Bristol and Cardiff Universities said young people needed to be made aware of the dangers. In an...

Busted! Man Thinks He's in Grand Theft Auto

The video game mentioned in the case history below is clearly Grand Theft Auto, in which the protagonist completes a series of crime-centric missions involving everything from automatic weapons to chainsaws to...

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