Falling behind in verbal development during the teenage years increases the risk for schizophrenia in adulthood, reports a study published online January 16 in JAMA Psychiatry.
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Dissecting cognition at the synapse
Two studies from the United Kingdom, published December 2 in Nature Neuroscience, use genetics and mouse-friendly touchscreens to dissect the contributions of different synaptic proteins to cognition. Several of these proteins are targets of research for schizophrenia.
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Deconstructing negative symptoms in schizophrenia
Even when medication succeeds in tempering their psychosis, most people with schizophrenia struggle to create full, meaningful lives with independent living, jobs or education, and satisfying personal relationships. How well they do this may have some roots in visual perception, according to a new modeling study published online 1 October in Archives of General Psychiatry.
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Teenage training
Training in adolescence can offset cognitive deficits in adulthood in a proposed rat model of schizophrenia, reports a study in Neuron.
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