Common psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression are related to biological mechanisms related to immune function and DNA regulation, according to new findings from a large research project in which the Psychiatric has collaborated Genomics Consortium, the University of California, Los Angeles (USA), Kings College London (UK), Cardiff University (UK), Harvard University (USA) and the Institute of Technology of Massachusetts (MIT).
Schizophrenia, that mental disorder that usually develops in adolescence and is characterized by delusions, abnormal thoughts, hallucinations and uncontrolled body movements, seems to have found a tough rival: intelligence itself.
A team of Swiss researchers has created a robot with which to reproduce ghostly illusions in our brains. The work will be very useful for the in-depth study of schizophrenia.
Scientists from University College London (United Kingdom) have discovered a very rare genetic variant that increases (doubling or even tripling) the risk of developing both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder as well as alcoholism. The study has been published in the journal Psychiatric Genetics.
It takes 24 hours of sleep deprivation for a healthy person to begin to experience symptoms similar to those of schizophrenia, such as losing contact with reality or suffering from delusions and hallucinations.
The exact causes of schizophrenia are still unknown, but now, a team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore (USA), claim to have discovered how a genetic variation related to schizophrenia influences the development of brain cells. The study has been published in the journal Cell Stem Cell.
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