Cathy Wilson has schizophrenia. Find out about her story and the experiences she has had over the years of dealing with the disorder. Her first case of depression and psychosis began at the age of 14, before the development of the symptoms of schizophrenia. Read on about the way schizophrenia...

The daughter of a women diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia has won a legal case ruling that her mother was not adequately cared for by the hospital she was allowed to leave before committing suicide. Anna Savage complains that by letting her mother leave "violated her right to life" and won the...

The locking of mental health patients into their wards in NHS hospitals makes them more likely to be violent, harm themselves and refuse medication, new research shows.   Read more about this story on the Guardain website by following the link...

The government's plans to reclassify cannabis from a Class C to a Class B drug have been met with mixed reactions. Despite advice from the scientific advisory board, the move looks likely to go ahead and everyone has an opinion... Read on about what the Guardian has to say...

A team at Newcastle University have reported finding a receptor in the brain responsible for regulating electrical signalling that may be missing in people with schizophrenia. Rat models were used to genetically knock-down the receptor and consequently showed a change in electrical wave...