
People with schizophrenia are often prescribed antipsychotic medications as part of their treatment. However, new research suggests that these drugs may cause the loss of a measurable amount of brain tissue over time. more...
New research from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has identified gene mutations that are linked to schizophrenia. For the study, which is published in the journal Nature, scientists scanned copy number variants (CNVs) - a type of genetic variation in which the number of copies of a gene differs between individuals - in the genomes of 8,290 individuals with schizophrenia and 7,431 healthy controls. more...