Schizophrenia
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Common acne drug may protect against schizophrenia
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A large Finnish registry study suggests that doxycycline, an antibiotic widely used for acne, may lower the risk of schizophrenia among adolescents receiving mental health care, with teens prescribed the drug showing roughly a 30–35% reduced risk compared with peers given other antibiotics.
Researchers at UNSW Sydney report evidence that auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders may involve a breakdown in the brain’s normal ability to dampen responses to self-generated inner speech, causing internally generated thoughts to be processed more like external sounds.