Understanding schizophrenia: Researchers uncover new underlying mechanism
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 - 04:30
in Health & Medicine
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new way of thinking about the fundamental pathobiology of schizophrenia could one day lead to improved therapeutic approaches to treating this disorder. Researchers at the University of Toronto, the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and Tufts University School of Medicine have linked proteins and genes that are implicated in schizophrenia in a novel way. The study is published in the March 27 advance online edition of Nature Medicine.