Disruption in brain connection linked to genetic defect in schizophrenia

In what may provide the most compelling evidence to date, researchers at Columbia University Medical Centre have illuminated how a genetic variant may lead to schizophrenia by causing a disruption in communication between the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex regions of the brain, areas believed to be responsible for carrying out working memory. Findings are published in the current online edition of Nature...

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