Serotonin receptors reduced in first-episode schizophrenia

The frontal cortex in people with schizophrenia contains abnormally low levels of the 5HT2A type of serotonin receptor, according to a new report in Archives of General Psychiatry. This may reflect the psychotic symptoms, but not the cognitive problems, of schizophrenia.

Read this article at Schizophrenia Research Forum.