Researchers in Europe have found that a lack of diligence and attention at school could well be early signs of schizophrenia, an illness which commonly causes people to hear voices and experience paranoid delusions.

A new study by researchers from Cambridge, Leipzig and Shanghaiadds weight to the theory that schizophrenia is a costly byproduct of human brain evolution.

Oestrogen estradiol, when combined with anti-psychotic drugs, seems to be effective in treating women with schizophrenia, according to a new study.

Researchers seem to have uncovered key insights into the origins of depression, schizophrenia and insomnia, by examining the unlikeliest of candidates: worms.