Schizophrenia: Top 5 Stories of 2016

See the 5 most-read stories on schizophrenia from the past year:

Dementia Drug Shown Effective As Adjunctive Treatment In Schizophrenia: Memantine, a drug used to treat dementia, may help improve negative and cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia when used as an adjunctive treatment, a new double-blind clinical trial suggests.

Drug Combination Lessens Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia: A combination of dextromethorphan and quinidine (DXQ) can help reduce the negative symptoms of schizophrenia, suggested a trial performed on 42 patients.

The Term ‘Schizophrenia’ Should Be Abandoned: The term ‘schizophrenia’ is an “unhelpful description of symptoms” that should be replaced with “psychosis spectrum syndrome,” wrote Jim van Os, MD, PhD, in an editorial published in BMJ.

Is Brexpiprazole More Effective Than Aripiprazole For Patients With Schizophrenia?: Patients with acute schizophrenia get more benefit from brexpiprazole than aripiprazole, and face less risk of akathisia with brexpiprazole, shows an exploratory study published in International Clinical Psychopharmacology.

Cannabis Use May Trigger Brain Changes Seen In Schizophrenia: Exposure to delta-9-tetrahydro-cannabinol (THC) in adolescence may cause changes to the brain that resemble features of schizophrenia. Researchers published their findings, which were based on a rodent model, in the journal Cerebral Cortex.