Most often, schizophrenia is diagnosed by signs: now a new marker will help the case.
According to ToDay News Ufa, from now on, patient behavior is only one of the signs of this severe mental illness. A new biomarker comes to the aid of doctors in determining the diagnosis. It is known that the striatum in the brain is responsible for the development of the disease. The abnormal function of this organ can also become a biomarker for the diagnosis of schizophrenia.
Studies that collected control group data of more than one thousand people proved that striatum dysfunction is the cause of a weak response to treatment. There is an assumption that there is a close relationship between the dysfunction of this organ and the genetic risk of schizophrenia
We wrote earlier: Scientists have identified a second type of schizophrenia.
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