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Jan 17, 2022

New Links Discovered Between Brain Cell Development and Psychiatric Disorders — “Major Step Forward”

Posted by in categories: genetics, neuroscience

Cardiff University study is ‘major step forward’ in hunt for developmental origins of schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders.

Scientists from Cardiff University have discovered new links between the breakdown in brain cell development and the risk of schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders.

Genetic risk factors are known to disrupt brain development in a number of these disorders, but little is known about which aspects of this process are affected.

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