Versions of a gene linked to schizophrenia may trigger runaway pruning of the teenage brain's still-maturing communications infrastructure, NIH-funded researchers have discovered. People with the illness show fewer such …
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Task Force Calls Out Postpartum Depression | KGO-AM
(KGO) – Depression is an all-too-common problem for women who are pregnant or have recently given birth. Now a national task force is asking doctors to be on the lookout for symptoms of the disease.
Immune System Offers Major Clue to Schizophrenia
A massive genetic study has sketched out a molecular link between schizophrenia and how the brain is shaped in adolescence.
Study hints at biology of schizophrenia, may aid treatment | The …
NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists pursuing the biological roots of schizophrenia have zeroed in on a potential factor — a normal brain process that gets kicked into overdrive. The finding…
Schizophrenia breakthrough as genetic study reveals link to brain …
Discovery of a link between genes which play a key role in brain development and a heightened risk of schizophrenia raises hopes for future therapies.