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An Australian study suggests that taking fish oil may help young people with schizophrenia avoid psychotic incidents.

• Dr. Paul Amminger of the University of Melbourne studied 76 people with schizophrenia
• Forty-one study subjects took fish oil tablets four times a day for three months, and the rest took sugar tablets.
  
• Among those who took fish oil, only two had psychotic incidents
  
• Among those who took sugar tablets, 11 had psychotic incidents.
  

Dr. Amminger said that previous studies have found that fatty acids such as fish oil can affect mental health, but it is too early to say whether fish oil should be prescribed for mental illness.

This study appears in the archives of General Psychiatry.

Labels: research, schizophrenia, fish oil

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