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.

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