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A vagal influence on schizophrenia? A nationwide retrospective cohort of vagotomized individuals
2024-01-30
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<h4>Background and Objectives</h4> Emerging preclinical evidence suggests that vagal signals contribute to the development of schizophrenia-related abnormalities in brain and behavior. Whether vagal communication in general, and its impairment in particular, is a risk factor for schizophrenia in humans remains, however, unclear. Vagotomy, the surgical lesion of the vagus nerve, was routinely performed as a treatme...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 6362f76e-77e9-5d16-8e07-7e84b80afbda
- DOI
- 10.1101/2024.01.30.24301418
