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As the draft Mental Health Bill is prepared to be put before Parliament, a former mental health patient and a mental health carer from Wales are heading for London to deliver crucial evidence.
A new study from Denmark suggests that there may be a link. Published in the November issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry, the study set out to discover whether prenatal exposure to analgesics may affect the development of the nervous system of the foetus, leading to an increased risk of schizophrenia in adulthood. Results show that mothers who take analgesics in the second three months of pregnancy are four times more likely to have a child that will develop schizophrenia.
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center say treating children with atypical antipsychotics for aggression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia may trigger insulin resistance – a condition that increases the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes and heart disease later in life.
Children of older fathers are more likely to develop schizophrenia in later life – that’s the conclusion of new research published on bmj.com, the online edition of the British Medical Journal. The findings add weight to the theory that accumulating mutations in the sperm of older fathers contributes to the overall risk of schizophrenia.
O Flaen dy Lygaid: Camu Mlaen, a BBC Wales television production for S4C, has won the Best TV Documentary category in this year’s Mental Health Media Awards, held on 13 October at the Café de Paris in Central London.
Today the Health and Social Services Committee at the National Assembly will consider the Draft Mental Health Bill, published in September for pre-legislative scrutiny.
Schizophrenia strikes one in a hundred of us – and affects many more. That’s the startling message of a new health campaign launched by Minister for Health and Social Services, Jane Hutt, at the National Resource Centre of Hafal – Wales’ leading charity for people with serious mental illness.
A ruling by the European Court of Human Rights could mean that tens of thousands of people in Britain informally admitted to hospital are being illegally detained.
A new study has found that over one in 20 people in the general population have reported experiencing psychotic symptoms. Being male was associated with paranoid thoughts, whereas female gender predicted hallucinatory experiences.
