Month: October 2021

Oct 13 2021

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Neuropsychiatric Lupus in Childhood-Onset Lupus is Not Linked to Genetic Risk of Schizophrenia

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Research shows that NPSLE – a form of lupus affecting the brain, spinal cord or nerves – is not linked to genetic risk of schizophrenia in those with childhood-onset lupus.

Oct 12 2021

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Schizophrenia in Translation: The Presence of Absence: Habenular Regulation of Dopamine Neurons and the Encoding of Negative Outcomes

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Many patients with schizophrenia have pronounced deficits in the use of negative feedback to guide problem solving and learning, as seen on tasks like the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test. There...

Oct 12 2021

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Schizophrenia: Synaptic dysfunction plays key role

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According to a new study, the imbalance of nerve cell activity responsible for the condition and its associated symptoms may result from the body trying to rebalance excitatory and inhibitory...

Oct 12 2021

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Tough crowd? Neurons prove difficult to excite in schizophrenia

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Schizophrenia is associated with reduced synaptic gain, while hallucination symptoms are associated with a loss of neural inhibition.

Oct 12 2021

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Studies Reveal Synaptic Disruptions in Schizophrenia

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Neurons signal to one another at crucial junctions called synapses, and synaptic dysfunction is thought to play a role in schizophrenia. | Cell And Molecular Biology …

Oct 12 2021

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Schizophrenia diagnosis rises among Black nursing home residents following start of Medicare initiative

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Racial and ethnic disparities in the quality of care nursing home residents receive is a serious and known problem in the United States. To increase overall patient quality of care,...

Oct 11 2021

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Schizophrenia: Synaptic dysfunction plays key role

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According to a new study, the imbalance of nerve cell activity responsible for the condition and its associated symptoms may result from the body trying to rebalance excitatory and inhibitory...

Oct 11 2021

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Tough crowd? Neurons prove difficult to excite in schizophrenia

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Schizophrenia is associated with reduced synaptic gain, while hallucination symptoms are associated with a loss of neural inhibition.

Oct 11 2021

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Studies Reveal Synaptic Disruptions in Schizophrenia

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Neurons signal to one another at crucial junctions called synapses, and synaptic dysfunction is thought to play a role in schizophrenia. | Cell And Molecular Biology …

Oct 11 2021

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Maternal infection during pregnancy and schizophrenia

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For a few decades now, maternal infection during pregnancy has been considered a plausible risk factor for schizophrenia. The story essentially began in Finland with the publication in 1988 of...