However, it is known to reside in brain tissue, and has been linked to
several psychiatric diseases, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and suicidal behavior.
Not exact matches
Several metabolic and
psychiatric diseases are associated with circadian rhythm and sleep disturbances, and this research opens the doors toward an improved understanding of these disorders.
The benefits of using olfactory receptor neuron samples to study
psychiatric disorders and patient responsiveness include their similarity to brain neurons, the relatively easy biopsy procedure, and the potential for scientists to sample and compare cells from the same patients throughout
several different stages of
disease.
The study is the result of
several years of work by the Schizophrenia Working Group of the
Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC, http://pgc.unc.edu), an international, multi-institutional collaboration founded in 2007 to conduct broad - scale analyses of genetic data for
psychiatric disease.