Schizophrenia And Manic-depressive Disorder: Genetic Variant Impairs Communication Within Brain
Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 22:35
in Psychology & Sociology
For some time now it has been known that certain hereditary factors enhance the risk of schizophrenia or a manic-depressive disorder. However, just how this occurs had remained obscure. Researchers are now able to answer this question, at least for one common genetic variant: this impairs the interoperation of certain regions of the brain.