In the hunt for environmental influences on schizophrenia risk, epidemiologists are homing in on drug use, migration, trauma, and the immune system.
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Antipsychotic balancing act?
A new study in Cell proposes that the therapeutic effects of both atypical antipsychotic drugs and the newer glutamate candidates depend on activation of curious hybrid receptors composed of the serotonin 5-HT2Areceptor and the mGluR2 metabotropic glutamate receptor.
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