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Picower study points to a genetic link for schizophrenia

Susumu Tonegawa

Gene mutations governing a key brain enzyme make people susceptible to schizophrenia and may be targeted in future treatments for the psychiatric illness, according to MIT and Japanese researchers. The work, by scientists from MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and Japan’s RIKEN Brain Science Institute, will be reported in the early online […]