Researchers from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have found that low levels of protein required for maintaining constant contact between brain neurons might cause schizophrenia.
Researchers from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have found that low levels of protein required for maintaining constant contact between brain neurons might cause schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder that results in hallucinations, memory loss and social withdrawal.
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In human and mouse brains, kalirin protein helps in building a dense network of highways, called dendritic spines, which allow information to flow from one neuron to another.
The findings revealed that without adequate kalirin, the frontal cortex of the brain of a person with schizophrenia only has a few narrow roads.
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"Without enough pathways, the information takes much longer to travel between neurons and much of it will never arrive," said Peter Penzes, assistant professor of physiology at the Feinberg School.
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This mimics the delayed onset of the disease in humans. In normal development, the brain ramp up the production of kalirin as it begins to mature in adolescence.
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"There is currently no treatment for that. It suggests that if you can stimulate and amplify the activity of the protein kalirin that remains in the brain, perhaps we can help the symptoms," he added.
The findings are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
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