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Biological mechanisms underlying evolutionary origins of psychotic and mood disorders.
Neuroscience research - 1 Oct 2016
Goto Yukiori, Lee Young-A, Yamaguchi Yoshie, Jas Emanuel
Abstract excerpt
Psychotic and mood disorders are brain dysfunctions that are caused by gene environment interactions. Although these disorders are disadvantageous and involve behavioral phenotypes that decrease the reproductive success of afflicted individuals in the modern human society, the prevalence of these disorders have remained constant in the population. Here, we propose several biological mechanisms by which the genes...
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