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Schizophrenia gene's role may be broader, more potent, than thought
Scientists have known that the mutated form of the human gene – one of three consistently associated with schizophrenia – mildly disrupts the transmission of chemical signals between nerve cells in th...
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Read more'Golden Age' for clinical psychology in Northern Ireland
The event, entitled Leading the Way: Psychological Initiatives across Healthcare, is being staged by Queen’s University Belfast, the British Psychological Society and the Department of Health....
Event News | Read moreImmune system activated in schizophrenia
Scientists at Karolinska Institutet have now been able to analyse inflammatory substances in the spinal fluid of patients with schizophrenia, instead of, as in previous studies, in the blood. The resu...
Health and Medicine | Read more'Despair' Gene May Link to Mood Disorders
Pharmacy scientists at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) have identified antidepressant and anti-anxiety behaviors in tests of mice lacking the gene. Writing in the journal BMC Neuro...
Life Sciences | Read moreGene knockout may cheer up mice
Elisabeth Barbier and Jia Bei Wang, from the School of Pharmacy at the University of Maryland, USA, carried out the experiments to investigate the role of the gene in regulating mood function. Wang, t...
Life Sciences | Read moreWhy can't chimps speak?
If humans are genetically related to chimps, why did our brains develop the innate ability for language and speech while theirs did not? Scientists suspect that part of the answer to the myste...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreNew 'schizophrenia gene' prompts researchers to test potential drug target
The rescue, described as “surprisingly complete” by the researchers, was accomplished with rapamycin, a drug known to act on a protein called mTOR whose role involves the production of other proteins....
Life Sciences | Read moreStudy Suggests Link Between Psychosis and Creativity
In order to examine the link between psychosis and creativity, psychiatrist Szabolcs Kéri of Semmelweis University in Hungary focused his research on neuregulin 1, a gene that normally plays a role in...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreResearchers Looking for Genetic Predictors for Suicide
Monsheel Sodhi, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the UAB Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology, says it is generally perceived that suicide tends to run in families. Genes, which are th...
Life Sciences | Read moreBrain defect implicated in early schizophrenia
In the first functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study of its kind, neurologists and psychiatrists at Columbia University have identified an area of the brain involved in the earliest stages ...
Life Sciences | Read moreResearchers Identify a Process in Formation of Long-term Memory
This discovery joins a line of findings from previous studies that together provide a better understanding of the most complex processes in nature – the process of memory formation and storage in the ...
Life Sciences | Read moreResearchers identify 1 of the necessary processes in the formation of long-term memory
A new study that was carried out at the University of Haifa has identified another component in the chain of actions that take place in the neurons in the process of forming memories. This discovery j...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreThe mystery of the brain continues to be unraveled
*Researchers discover that the addition of the phosphor molecule to a the NMDA receptor in the brain is a necessary step to memory formation* A new study that was carried out at the University...
Life Sciences | Read moreCounting duplicated genome segments now possible
A newly designed computational method has proven its usefulness in counting copies of duplicated genome sequences and in doing initial assessments of their contents, according to a study to be publish...
Life Sciences | Read moreAnti-psychotic drugs could help fight cancer
A preliminary finding in the current online issue of the International Journal of Cancer reports that the anti-psychotic drug, pimozide, kills lung, breast and brain cancer cells in in-vitro laborator...
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