Schizophrenia: Gene discovery indicates risk and cause
Hindustan TimesOur understanding of schizophrenia has been stuck in a kind of black box for decades — experts say we don't really know what is going on inside the brain. "Our knowledge about schizophrenia is close to zero," says Stephan Ripke, a researcher at Berlin's Charitie university hospital and a co-author on one of two papers published in the science journal Nature on Wednesday. The second study The other study took a narrower approach, but the results also point towards neurons and synapses as playing key role in a person's risk of developing schizophrenia. The researchers discovered ten genes with rare mutations that appeared to increase a person's schizophrenia risk and 22 more that could play a role. Towards new schizophrenia medication Today's schizophrenia medication is still based on a discovery made in the 1950s, says Ripke.
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