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Data on schizophrenia described by researchers at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Published in Mental Health Business Week, June 14th, 2008

Fresh data on schizophrenia are presented in the report 'The postweaning social isolation in C57BL/6 mice: preferential vulnerability in the male sex.' "Social deprivation during early life can severely affect mental health later in adulthood, leading to the development of behavioural traits associated with several major psychiatric disorders including schizophrenia. This has led to the application of social isolation in laboratory animals to model the impact of environmental factors on the aetiopathology of schizophrenia," scientists in Switzerland report.

"However, controversy exists over the precise behavioural profile and the robustness of some of the reported...

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