Schizophrenia and aging might share a typical biological basis
Scientists from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard Medical School, and McLean Hospital have actually revealed a noticeably comparable suite of modifications in gene activity in brain tissue from individuals with schizophrenia and from older grownups. These modifications recommend a typical biological basis for the cognitive problems frequently seen in individuals with schizophrenia and in the senior.
In a research study released in Naturethe group explains how they examined gene expression in more than a million private cells from postmortem brain tissue from 191 individuals. They discovered that in people with schizophrenia and in older grownups without schizophrenia, 2 brain cell types called astrocytes and nerve cells lowered their expression of genes that support the junct...