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Dr. Nir Asch, a doctor and researcher in the psychiatric department of Rambam Health Care Campus. (Courtesy/Rambam Spokesperson's Office)
February 19, 2026, 10:35 am
In breakthrough, Israeli scientists use deep-brain stimulation to counter schizophrenia
Novel study by researchers at the Rambam Health Care Campus could help 21 million people worldwide suffering from the severe lifelong mental disorder
By Diana Bletter
In this April 18, 2017, file photo, a woman with Type 2 diabetes prepares to inject herself with insulin at her home in Las Vegas. (AP/John Locher)
October 26, 2025, 2:07 pm
Type 2 diabetes patients more likely to develop schizophrenia, Israeli researchers find
In first study of its kind, scientists in Haifa and New York use health organization data to show that adult-onset diabetes sufferers have a 50% higher risk of schizophrenia late in life
By Diana Bletter
Ahmad Manasra (center), who was arrested in 2015 after carrying out a stabbing attack in Jerusalem, seen after he was released from Israeli jail, outside a police station in Jerusalem, April 10, 2025. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)
April 10, 2025, 11:49 pm
Palestinian who stabbed two at age 13 is freed, said to have developed schizophrenia
Supreme Court denied mental health parole for Ahmad Manasra, 20, convicted of terrorism for seriously wounding two in 2015 attack in Jerusalem
By AP and ToI Staff
Itay & Beyond scientists and researchers at a lab at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. (Courtesy)
February 23, 2025, 8:18 am
Israeli scientists fuse ‘brain tissue’ and electronic chips to test autism treatment
Biotech startup Itay & Beyond uses AI analysis of a ‘brain-on-a-chip’ made from stem cells to predict drug efficacy for neuropsychiatric disorders, expedite testing and development
By Sharon Wrobel
A box truck is seen crashed into a security barrier at a park across from the White House, Monday night, May 22, 2023 in Washington. (Benjamin Berger via AP)
January 18, 2025, 4:30 pm
Nazi flag-bearing man gets 8 years in jail for crashing truck near White House
Sai Varshith Kandula praised Hitler, unfurled Swastika after ramming into barrier in May 2023, injuring no one; defense says he’s schizophrenic, amenable to treatment
By Michael Kunzelman
Jonathan Rosen (Tali Rosen)
July 14, 2023, 6:35 pm
Author chronicles a friend’s descent into madness, and society’s failure to save him
In ‘The Best Minds,’ Jonathan Rosen examines how shifts in perception of mental illness and its treatment contributed to schizophrenic man killing his fiancée in a psychotic rage
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Children at sunset (Vitold Muratov, via Wikimedia Commons)
March 30, 2023, 12:17 pm
Study points to coding DNA variants as cause for childhood onset schizophrenia
Israeli research finds that some children with this rare mental illness carry genetic mutations previously found in people with language, learning, and developmental challenges
By Renee Ghert-Zand
The Galvin family (Courtesy of the Galvin family)
December 27, 2020, 4:01 am
In 2020 bestseller, journalist tracks American family plunged into schizophrenia
Robert Kolker’s ‘Hidden Valley Road’ recounts Mimi and Don Galvin’s quest for answers from the medical community as 6 of their 12 children are afflicted with severe mental illness
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative. A man's hands in handcuffs. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
April 28, 2019, 2:01 pm
Woman, 65, dies after son attacks her in their home in Lod
Murder suspect arrested, said to be mentally ill; lawyer says police refusing to send him to psychiatric examination
By ToI Staff
Police at the scene of a suspected murder in Beit Yael homeless shelter in Netanya on August 2, 2018. (Screen capture: Ynet news)
August 3, 2018, 1:27 pm
Suspect confesses to double murder in Netanya homeless shelter
Police say Beit Yael resident killed center’s manager after stabbing roommate a few days ago, tried to set fire to himself after arrest
By ToI Staff
In this file photo taken on Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017, Boris Grits, 48, who holds Russian and Israeli citizenship, sits in a cage in a courtroom in Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
January 17, 2018, 11:30 pm
Israeli stabber of Russian radio host diagnosed with schizophrenia
Tatyana Felgenhauer says she trusts doctors’ conclusion and expects authorities to keep Boris Grits in isolation
By AP
Ivanka Trump exits Trump Tower in New York City, November 17, 2016. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)
December 12, 2016, 9:41 pm
Alleged Ivanka Trump stalker arrested in NY
Schizophrenic Justin Massler picked up two blocks from Trump Tower, now in a mental hospital
By JTA and ToI Staff
A person wearing an EEG cap (screen capture: YouTube)
August 27, 2016, 10:17 am
Israeli scientists use nanobots and thoughts to control when drugs are administered
Researchers say new method monitors brain activity, could be used to preempt flare-up of mental disorders such as schizophrenia
By ToI Staff
Gyulchekhra Bobokulova, a nanny suspected of killing a young girl in her care, sits inside a defendants' cage during a hearing at a court in Moscow, on March 2, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/VASILY MAXIMOV)
March 4, 2016, 5:48 pm
Russia charges nanny with murder over toddler beheading
Gyulchekhra Bobokulova from Uzbekistan to undergo psychiatric, drug tests to determine her mental state
By AFP
A visitor walks by barbed wire fences at the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. (AP/Alik Keplicz)
January 25, 2016, 8:16 pm
Holocaust toddlers nearly twice as likely to develop schizophrenia
Study reinforces argument that survivors carried suffering into later life, rather than emerging stronger and healthier
By Sue Surkes
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