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New 'schizophrenia gene' prompts researchers to test potential drug target
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 27, 2009 |
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Johns Hopkins scientists report having used a commercially available drug to successfully "rescue" animal brain cells that they had intentionally damaged by manipulating a newly discovered gene that links susceptibility genes ...
A genetic basis for schizophrenia
Jul 21, 2009 |
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Schizophrenia is a severely debilitating psychiatric disease that is thought to have its roots in the development of the nervous system; however, major breakthroughs linking its genetics to diagnosis, prognosis and treatment ...
Genetic clues hold key to schizophrenia treatment
Mar 20, 2009 |
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Researchers have taken a step forward in understanding the genetics of mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Schizophrenia-linked gene controls the birth of new neurons
Mar 19, 2009 |
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A gene that is arguably the most studied "schizophrenia gene" plays an unanticipated role in the brain: It controls the birth of new neurons in addition to their integration into existing brain circuitry, according to a report ...
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Schizophrenia gene linked with abnormal neurogenesis in adult and postnatal brain
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Sep 23, 2009 |
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Scientists now have a better understanding of a perplexing gene that is associated with susceptibility for a wide spectrum of severely debilitating mental illnesses. Two independent research studies published by Cell Press ...
Researchers piece together gene 'network' linked to schizophrenia
Sep 02, 2008 |
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Reporting this week in the Archives of General Psychiatry, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have uncovered for the first time molecular circuitry associated with schizophrenia that links three ...
New schizophrenia genes uncovered
Jul 30, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have discovered new genes linked to schizophrenia, it has been revealed. In two papers published in Nature today (July 30), scientists identify four mutated gene regions that m ...
Normal role for schizophrenia risk gene identified
Sep 07, 2007 |
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How the gene that has been pegged as a major risk factor for schizophrenia and other mood disorders that affect millions of Americans contributes to these diseases remains unclear. However, the results of a new study by Hopkins ...
Selection on genes underlying schizophrenia during human evolution
Sep 05, 2007 |
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Several genes with strong associations to schizophrenia have evolved rapidly due to selection during human evolution, according to new research in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Hopkins team develops first mouse model of schizophrenia
Jul 30, 2007 |
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Johns Hopkins researchers have genetically engineered the first mouse that models both the anatomical and behavioral defects of schizophrenia, a complex and debilitating brain disorder that affects over 2 million Americans.
Gene malfunctions cause schizophrenia, depression symptoms
May 02, 2007 |
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Researchers have demonstrated for the first time that malfunction of a gene that had been associated with schizophrenia and depression does indeed cause symptoms of those disorders. They said their findings in mice offer ...
Brain networks strengthened by closing ion channels
Apr 20, 2007 |
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Yale School of Medicine and University of Crete School of Medicine researchers report in Cell April 20 the first evidence of a molecular mechanism that dynamically alters the strength of higher brain network connections.
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