Major research project provides new clues to schizophrenia
[PRESS RELEASE 2017-03-14] Researchers at Karolinska Institutet collaborating in the large-scale Karolinska Schizophrenia Project are taking an integrative approach to unravel the disease mechanisms of schizophrenia. In the very first results now presented in the prestigious scientific journal Molecular Psychiatry, the researchers show that patients with schizophrenia have lower levels of the vital neurotransmitter GABA as well as changes in the brain’s immune cells.Schizophrenia is one of the most disabling psychiatric diseases and affects approximately one per cent of the population. It