West Virginia University neuroscientists have discovered a way to control how much zinc is released to specific locations in ...

A recent study from Northwestern University has uncovered a genetic factor that may play a key role in autism. Researchers found that a specific gene affects how brain cells form connections during ...

Cannabis appears to aggravate already decreasing nerve connectivity in young adults at risk of psychosis, a new study has ...

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Neural activity determines which synapses are preserved ... Excessive pruning is associated with schizophrenia, leading to reduced synaptic connectivity, while insufficient pruning may contribute ...

Over the past decade, a growing amount of research has revealed how liquid-liquid phase separation mediates protein interactions throughout the cell and, furthermore, at the synapse. While this ...

Cannabis may increase the risk of schizophrenia, particularly in people with a genetic predisposition to the condition. Schizophrenia is a mental health condition that alters how people think ...

Studies suggest that TRS occurs in about 22 percent of people who have a first episode of psychosis (meaning the first time schizophrenia symptoms appear) and in 39.5 percent of those who have had ...

However, it took over two millennia for substantial epidemiological studies to explore the relationship between mental disorders, such as schizophrenia, and environmental factors like birth ...

PET has therefore been used to gain insight into neurochemical pathways (1,2). Patients with schizophrenia show heightened dopaminergic transmission leading to synaptic dysregulation (3,4), which is ...

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