This optical illusion can help predict schizophrenia
- 22-Jul-2022
Hollow Mask Illusion is the simplest way for a mental health expert to predict it.
Supreme Court seeks fresh medical report of mentally ill death row prisoner
- 14-Jan-2019
A two-member bench of Supreme Court forwarded the matter to a larger bench that is hearing another similar case.
Schizophrenic boy gets 13 years for killing girl
- 20-Dec-2018
An Austrian court sentenced a schizophrenic teenager to 13 years in jail for murdering a seven-year-old girl, despite conflicting expert evidence. The boy aged 16 strangled and tried to decapitate his seven-year-old neighbour, who was playing video games at his home, before leaving her body in a skip in Vienna in May. The 16-year-old, who […]
Scientists zap ‘voices’ from schizophrenia sufferers
- 07-Sep-2017
PARIS: Scientists have pinpointed a part of the brain where “voices” torment schizophrenia sufferers, and partially muted them with magnetic pulse treatment, a team reported on Tuesday. More than a third of sufferers treated with magnetic pulses in a patient trial experienced “significant” relief, the scientists said in a statement. “We can now say with […]
Mentally ill prisoner Imdad Ali to be executed on November 2
- 27-Oct-2016
ISLAMABAD: The authorities issued a death warrant for a mentally ill condemned prisoner on Wednesday after the Supreme Court ruled that his schizophrenia is “not a permanent mental disorder”. Lawyers and rights groups say convicted murderer Imdad Ali, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia while in prison in 2012, cannot be executed as he cannot understand […]
Schizophrenia not a mental illness, Supreme Court rules
- 21-Oct-2016
ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court has ruled that schizophrenia does not fall within its legal definition of mental disorders, clearing the way for the execution, as soon as next week, of a mentally ill man convicted of murder. Government doctors in 2012 certified Imdad Ali, 50, as being a paranoid schizophrenic, after he was convicted and sentenced […]