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‘Extreme injustice’: Homeless man with untreated schizophrenia fights 150-year sentence

MIAMI — The crime that Jared Stephens committed is not in dispute.

Miami Herald

Boulder King Soopers shooting suspect showing symptoms of schizophrenia, prosecutor says

DENVER — The man charged with killing 10 people in the 2021 Boulder King Soopers shooting is showing symptoms of schizophrenia, which is keeping him from being found competent to stand trial, according to prosecutors.

The Denver Post

Silent Suffering

Some Canadian medical experts agree that people living with the most severe mental illnesses are not getting the attention or funding they need.

The Walrus

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Paranoid schizophrenic shouted ‘I am God!’ after murdering pensioner weeks after mental health support lapsed

Aaron Cook had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and sectioned in 2020

Evening Standard

Feds to investigate nursing home abuse of antipsychotics

The federal government says it will begin a targeted crackdown on nursing homes’ abuse of antipsychotic drugs and misdiagnoses of schizophrenia in patients

The Independent UK

Psychiatrists Do Not Know What They Are Treating

The mysteries of the mind are harder to unravel than psychiatrists pretend.

Reason

Man died after setting fire to armchair following long mental health and addiction battle

Mark Bramall had been suffering with paranoid schizophrenia for more than 30 years

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Schizophrenia is a black box. How — and why — we reported Anthony's story

LOS ANGELES — One cool spring afternoon, Anthony Mazzucca and his mother, Mary Liciaga, stopped into a Starbucks in Marina del Rey. They had just come from an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, and Mary had promised her son a coffee.

Los Angeles Times

A world gone mad: Schizophrenia and a journey through California’s failed mental health system

LOS ANGELES — Standing in the dappled sunlight of a Westside city park, Anthony Mazzucca was trying to make a point. The words flew out of him, like birds, a flock of words. He laughed at the thought.

Los Angeles Times

Dear Abby: Should my sister with schizophrenia be in the wedding party?

Bride-to-be considers it risky to give duties to her mentally ill sibling, but some family members disagree.

Chicago Sun-Times

Gardai tell how they thought they were going to die in terrifying shootout as gunman admits attempted murder

Daniel Goulding, who has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and lives with a threat against his life, pleaded guilty to attempting to murder the two gardai.

Irish Mirror

This band rocks with a doctor, a composer and musicians with schizophrenia

PITTSBURGH — On a rainy afternoon in Aspinwall, Pennsylvania, a group of amateur musicians gathered to lay down a few tracks.

Tribune News Service

Without Foodbank NT, David Nicholls would be 'skipping meals and going hungry'

Paranoid schizophrenia took David Nicholls from a fully-independent worker to relying on charity for his groceries. He says without Foodbank NT, he'd be skipping meals and going hungry.

ABC News

Man who left knife embedded in Onyx cafe chef's chest learns fate in court

A man who slashed a co-worker at a Mayfield cafe with a large knife before leaving the blade embedded in her chest has been found by a court to have committed the acts of violence but cannot be held criminally responsible because he was suffering from the effects of a…

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Palestinian seeks early release in case that shook Jerusalem

A 13-year-old Palestinian boy whose case became a lightning rod for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict seven years ago is now a man languishing in solitary confinement and struggling with schizophrenia

ABC News

Screwdriver stabbing-accused William Delany found not guilty of murder due to mental incompetence

A murder-accused who used a screwdriver to stab another man in Adelaide's northern suburbs, and then left him in a pool of blood inside his unit, has been declared not guilty due to mental incompetence, with a judge finding he was suffering from schizophrenia at the time.

The Independent UK

New study solves riddle of how dopamine relates to schizophrenia

The brain disorder is characterised by delusional thinking, hallucinations and other forms of psychosis.

The Texas Tribune

Texas tries again to prove that Scott Panetti is just sane enough to be executed

The convicted murderer’s lengthy history of schizophrenia and delusions is well documented, from trying to call Jesus Christ as a trial witness to believing that prison dentists put a transmitter in his tooth.

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Ask the Doctors: Can a pet dog in childhood protect against developing schizophrenia later in life?

Researchers were surprised to find a statistically significant connection between having a dog in early childhood and a decrease in the risk of developing schizophrenia.

The Independent UK

Genes link bipolar, schizophrenia, once thought unrelated

A growing body of research shows that bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and the in-between diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder share common genetic underpinnings

Salon

Schizophrenia: a new long COVID

New research finds severe COVID increases the risk of schizophrenia — and could be a possible long COVID symptom

AFP

Human brain cells implanted in rats offer research gold mine

Tokyo (AFP) - Scientists have successfully implanted and integrated human brain cells into newborn rats, creating a new way to study complex psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and autism, and perhaps eventually test treatments.

The Independent UK

Man handed indefinite hospital order for stabbing of stranger at petrol station

Paul Miller, who has paranoid schizophrenia, admitted a charge of attempted murder.

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The Market Slumped Last Week; Why IBD Stock Of The Day Neurocrine Biosciences Didn't

Neurocrine Biosciences is the IBD Stock Of The Day as market uncertainty shakes plenty leading of equities — but not NBIX stock.

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Man who killed woman in random attack may have been crying out for help, inquest hears

A request by an Adelaide prisoner with schizophrenia to move from a high-security jail to a mental health facility could have been a cry for help before he was released and killed an Adelaide mother, an inquest has heard.

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