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With Two Affected Parents, Schizophrenia Risk in Offspring Skyrockets
9 March 2010.
Having two parents with schizophrenia multiplies the risk of offspring following in their footsteps to a psychiatric facility...
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DISC1: Brief Loss in Prenatal Life Leads to Problems Later On
2 March 2010.
If schizophrenia has its roots in early brain development, why does the disease most often appear in adolescence or early adulthood?...
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Rac Your Brain to Forget?
2 March 2010.
It can be a good thing to forget, especially when learned information becomes useless or overly troubling...
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In Memoriam—Steve Doochin
26 February 2010.
Steve Doochin died unexpectedly last week, 16 February 2010, at the age of 60...
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SZGene Update Debuts With New Analyses, Top Hits
25 February 2010.
Fans of SZGene may have noticed the resource was offline for a few weeks at the start of the year; Lars Bertram and his group gave the database a complete update and a major makeover...
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ACNP 2009—Are Electrophysiological Biomarkers of Schizophrenia Ready for Primetime?
23 February 2010.
A group of researchers in the field of schizophrenia presented the latest data on the possible biomarkers for this disease...
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CNV “Double Whammies” May Account for Variable Neuropsychiatric Phenotypes
22 February 2010.
Copy number variants (CNVs) have promised to account for some of the heritability for psychiatric diseases not captured in genomewide association studies...
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News Brief—Added Complexity to Neuronal Synchrony
19 February 2010.
Alterations in neuronal synchrony—especially in the γ band of oscillations centered around 40 Hz—have been reported in schizophrenia...
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Thinking Outside the Pillbox: Fish Oil and Exercise for Schizophrenia?
15 February 2010.
Two new studies test other ways besides antipsychotic drugs to ward off psychosis and to improve brain structure and function in schizophrenia...
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DISC1 and SNAP23 Emerge In NMDA Receptor Signaling
10 February 2010.
The hypothesis that schizophrenia results from underachieving NMDA receptors or disturbed glutamate neurotransmission has spurred researchers to seek ways to tweak NMDA-R function...
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What Lies Between—Extracellular Matrix and Schizophrenia
8 February 2010.
When searching for clues to schizophrenia in the brain, it's important to look in the seemingly open spaces between neurons...
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Research Brief: From Fibroblast to Neuron in One Easy Step
1 February 2010.
It’s time to cut out the middleman—why go from fibroblasts, to induced pluripotent stem cells, to neurons, if one can skip straight to the payload?...
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Timing is Everything—Perinatal DISC1 and Later Behavior Changes
21 January 2010.
Disrupted in schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) is one of the most promising schizophrenia gene candidates, but exactly how it might increase susceptibility to the disease is unclear...
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Risk of Depression, Resistance to Treatment: Breaking the Feedback Loop
18 January 2010.
People vary widely in their susceptibility to depressive disorders, and those who succumb differ greatly in their response to medication...
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Serotonin Receptors Appear Reduced in First-Episode Schizophrenia
16 January 2010.
The frontal cortex in people with schizophrenia contains abnormally low levels of the 5-HT2A type of serotonin receptor...
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Drug Treatment of Schizophrenia Patients Sounds Alarms
15 January 2010.
Two studies in the January Archives of General Psychiatry sound alarms about the treatment provided to psychiatric patients...
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LRRTM2: A New Synaptic Partner for Neurexin
5 January 2010.
A synapse-promoting protein called LRRTM2 has been identified as a ligand for neurexin, a strong candidate susceptibility gene for schizophrenia, autism, and other neuropsychiatric disorders...
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Cytogenetics Offer Up Another Schizophrenia, Bipolar Candidate Gene
5 January 2010.
The membrane lipid transporter gene ABCA13 is identified as a candidate susceptibility factor for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in a Scottish cohort...
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Training the Brain to Forget Fears, Work Better, and Rewire Itself
29 December 2009.
Better drugs are likely to be the best hope for treating schizophrenia, but two new studies remind us of the promise of behavioral training...
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Mental Retardation: Taking Off the Epigenetic Brakes
23 December 2009.
Epigenetic research has suggested intriguing mechanistic links between environmental factors and lasting changes in cognition, behavior, and physiology...
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Meet Norbin—Behind the Scenes Player at mGluR5
20 December 2009.
The mGluR5 modulator Norbin presents a possible new drug target for schizophrenia ...
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Neuroscience 2009: New Looks at Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disease
4 December 2009.
Several of the speakers at a symposium at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting focused on the overlap between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder...
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Obituary—Erminio Costa, M.D. (1924-2009), University of Illinois at Chicago
1 December 2009.
Erminio (Mimo) Costa, an expert in the field of neuropsychopharmacology, died Saturday, 28 November 2009...
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nAChR 2009: Nicotinic AChRs—Mechanistic Basis for New Drug Discovery?
1 December 2009.
It’s refreshing to hear about studies showing clear convergence between biology, drug action, and behavior, all in the space of a few seconds, no less...
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nAChR 2009: Move Over, Agonists; Make Way for Modulators
1 December 2009.
At a satellite symposium, “Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors (nAChRs) as Therapeutic Targets,” clinical discussion of cognitive treatments focused largely on nAChR agonists...
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