A large risk genetic marker of schizophrenia has been discovered by scientists. The researchers found that a specific deletion at 3q29, which contains two genes already known to be associated with intellectual disabilities , PAK2 and DLG1, increased the odds of schizophrenia symptoms by nearly 17 times those with no deletion.
New research on learning describes the interaction between acetlycholine receptors and SK channels and their involvement in learning and memory. These findings could lead to new research targeting acetylcholine and SK channels to help cognitive disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia as well as help understand learning and memory better.
A team of scientists at Penn State University, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and other institutions have developed a...
A research group from the University of Leeds has shown that infection by the brain parasite Toxoplasma gondii, found in...
The findings could point the way to new therapies. Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have discovered that DNA stays...
Mental illness suspect genes are among the most environmentally responsive. For the first time, scientists have tracked the activity, across...
What is usually seen as pathology may aid survival of the species. Worrying may have evolved along with intelligence as...
Researchers at ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich identify a new method of unerringly detecting the presence of pathophysiological...
Babies born to women with sensitivity to gluten appear to be at increased risk for certain psychiatric disorders later in...
What can a fish tell us about human brain development? Researchers at Duke University Medical Center transplanted a set of...
Researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center report that molecular disruptions in small neurons called granule cells – located in the dentate gyrus region of the brain – caused brain seizures in mice similar to those seen in human temporal lobe epilepsy.
Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have identified dozens of new spontaneous genetic mutations that play a significant role in the development of schizophrenia, adding to the growing list of genetic variants that can contribute to the disease. The schizophrenia study was the largest and most comprehensive of its kind.