By observing the eye movements of schizophrenia patients while they played a simple video game, a University of British Columbia researcher has discovered a potential explanation for some of their symptoms. Schizophrenia is a brain disorder affecting about one per cent of the population that often causes people to hear voices that others don’t hear […]
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Scale of epigenetic changes observed in stimulated brain is “mind boggling”
In a discovery with major implications for treating psychiatric diseases and neurodegenerative disorders, Johns Hopkins neurologists have established that non-dividing brain cells, thought to be inherently stable, can instead undergo large-scale dynamic changes as a result of brain stimulation. Their findings are reported in Nature Neuroscience. Specifically, the researchers found evidence of an epigenetic change […]