Mouse model may provide insight into the schizophrenic brain
Thursday, February 25, 2010 - 08:28
in Biology & Nature
Schizophrenia is an incredibly complex and profoundly debilitating disorder that typically manifests in early adulthood but is thought to arise, at least in part, from pathological disturbances occurring during very early brain development. Now, a new study published by Cell Press in the February 25 issue of the journal Neuron, manipulates a known schizophrenia susceptibility gene in the brains of foetal mice to begin to unravel the complex link between prenatal brain development and maturation of information processing and cognition in adult animals...