Schizophrenia Archive
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Can yeast infections be linked to Mental Illness?
Posted on May 18, 2016 | No CommentsIn recent times, an increasing amount of focus has been placed on understanding the aetiology of many mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. […] -
Are We One Step Closer to Conquering Schizophrenia?
Posted on February 1, 2016 | No CommentsHallucinations. Delusions. False beliefs. All of these are characteristic symptoms of the harrowing mental disorder, schizophrenia. Not to be confused with “multiple personality disorder” (as […] -
Hearing Better: Mice Restored From Partial Deafness
Posted on October 26, 2014 | No CommentsBy manipulating the expression of certain nerve cell growth factors in mice, a collaborative team between the University of Michigan Medical School and Harvard University […] -
Apoptosis or neural pruning: Distinct mechanisms for cell and axon-specific degeneration.
Posted on May 27, 2013 | No CommentsResearchers at the University of North Carolina have obtained evidence suggesting distinct neuronal pathways lead to either whole cell death via apoptosis or selective axon […] -
A developmental pathway responsible for schizophrenia?
Posted on January 27, 2013 | No CommentsA paper published this month in ‘Schizophrenia Research’ claims to have pinpointed the gestational pathway, which, when disrupted, causes the development of schizophrenia later in […] -
The nature of thought itself?
Posted on November 26, 2012 | No CommentsA fundamental question in neuroscience is how we each form our unique thoughts, memories and perceptions of the world. Ground-breaking work by Earl Miller at […] -
A single protein could underlie several neurological conditions
Posted on November 5, 2012 | No CommentsResearchers at the University of Heidelberg in Germany have found that disrupting one protein (SRGAP3) in mice causes mental changes similar to those occurring in […] -
Immune system genes linked to schizophrenia
Posted on October 14, 2012 | No CommentsA recently published article by two international consortia of scientists has reinforced previous findings, which suggested that a group of genes important in the immune […]