Brain stimulation improves schizophrenia-like cognitive problems

Tuesday, March 28, 2017 - 13:02 in Psychology & Sociology

A new study finds that stimulating the cerebellum in rats with schizophrenia-like thinking problems normalizes brain activity in the frontal cortex and corrects the rats' ability to estimate the passage of time -- a cognitive deficit that is characteristic in people with schizophrenia.

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