A new study found out that the
brains of schizophrenic patients attempt to heal themselves by restructuring brain tissue damages and fighting particular effects of the disease.
«Perhaps as many as 30
percent of schizophrenic patients may now become candidates for more precise treatment based on the individual characteristics of these four genes, with the remaining cases becoming less mysterious as we pull these groups out of the mix,» says Malaspina, the Anita Steckler and Joseph Steckler Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at NYU Langone.
«I think this is an interesting contribution to the epidemiological literature, that paternal age may be a risk factor for a
subgroup of schizophrenic patients,» Dr. Pulver said.
According to Lena Palaniyappan and colleagues, regardless of the kind of tissue damage initially recorded, the
brains of schizophrenic patients were shown to be constantly attempting to reorganize themselves.