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Synaptic dysfunction in schizophrenia.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology - 1 Jan 2012
Yin Dong-Min, Chen Yong-Jun, Sathyamurthy Anupama, Xiong Wen-Cheng, Mei Lin
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Schizophrenia alters basic brain processes of perception, emotion, and judgment to cause hallucinations, delusions, thought disorder, and cognitive deficits. Unlike neurodegeneration diseases that have irreversible neuronal degeneration and death, schizophrenia lacks agreeable pathological hallmarks, which makes it one of the least understood psychiatric disorders. With identification of schizophrenia...
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