Schizophrenia
New schizophrenia study findings have been reported by S. Whitfieldgabrieli and colleagues
Published in Genetics and Environmental Health Week, April 1st, 2009
According to recent research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, "We examined the status of the neural network mediating the default mode of brain function, which typically exhibits greater activation during rest than during task, in patients in the early phase of schizophrenia and in young first-degree relatives of persons with schizophrenia. During functional MRI, patients, relatives, and controls alternated between rest and performance of working memory (WM) tasks."
"As expected, controls exhibited task-related suppression of activation in the default network, including medial prefrontal...
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