Washington, Oct 24 : A Harvard study has found that people with schizophrenia are more likely to die of heart disease than other people.

The study has found that schizophrenics are less likely to receive good preventive care for their heart problems, in large part because they are more likely to see a psychiatrist than a primary care physician or cardiologist putting more burden for assessing and monitoring heart health on the mental health team or on patients and families.

The other important factor for hindering the preventive care is medication non-compliance.

The research points out that at least half of people with schizophrenia would stop taking antipsychotic medication at some point, so clinicians might assume that compliance with other medications would also be poor.

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London, October 24 : An expert at Oregon Health and Science University has identified an area of the brain tapped by people blinded early in life to develop better hearing than individuals with their visions intact.
Alexander Stevens says that blind people co-opt the medial occipital—part of the visual system that plays a crucial role in registering visual signals by setting the threshold at which they are noticed by the brain—to help detect sounds.
In a study, the researcher played a series of sounds to blind subjects, each of which was preceded by a cue. He scanned their brains as they heard the sounds.

Washington, October 24 : Psychologists at the University of