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Yale Study Reconciles Two Models of Schizophrenia

John KrystaL, M.D.

New Haven, Conn. — Yale School of Medicine researchers published a report this month in the Archives of General Psychiatry that highlights the interplay of two brain signaling systems, glutamate and dopamine, in psychosis and cognitive function.
The study helps resolve a long-standing research debate between the “dopamine hypothesis” and the “glutamate hypothesis” or […]

Inhibitory Systems Control the Pattern of Activity in the Cortex

David McCormick

New Haven, Conn. — Inhibitory systems are essential for controlling the pattern of activity in the cortex, which has important implications for the mechanisms of cortical operation, according to a Yale School of Medicine study in Neuron.
The findings demonstrate the inhibitory network is central to controlling not only the amplitude, extent and duration of […]