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Prof. Uri Rasovsky and his team. Self-portrait

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Researchers are examining whether aerobic physical activity, which increases the level of oxytocin, the hormone of love and connection in the body, may improve the social functioning of those suffering from schizophrenia
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A new gene has been found that increases the risk of schizophrenia in Ashkenazim

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Differences between the sexes - the worm version

Recently, Weizmann Institute of Science scientists compared neural networks of female and male worms, and discovered a molecular mechanism that may explain how differences between the sexes in neurological diseases in humans arise
Brain regions showing statistically significant changes between schizophrenia patients and healthy subjects. So, for example, arrow 1 points to an area in the motor cortex, and arrow 5 points to the precuneus, which is involved in processing visual information. Source: IBM.

Computational psychiatry: A machine learning algorithm will help predict schizophrenia

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The migration of nerve cells in the brain of mouse embryos: under normal conditions, many cells (white dots) migrate to the upper layer of the cerebral cortex (three pictures on the left), but in the absence of the 3C protein, the cells remain scattered along the migration path (three pictures on the right). Photographed using a confocal microscope. Source: Weizmann Institute magazine.

Dual agents: Immune system proteins help brain development

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Study: Cannabis use during adolescence significantly increases the risk of schizophrenia among genetically predisposed adolescents

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Filtering the genetic information of schizophrenia

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Holocaust survivors are at high risk of developing schizophrenia

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Schizophrenia (split, split personality). Illustration: shutterstock

Schizophrenia - not one disease but a group of distinct genetic diseases

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schizophrenia. Illustration: shutterstock

A new study links a defect in a central mechanism in the brain cells to schizophrenia

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Prof. Yonatan Rabinowitz from Bar-Ilan University is one of the leaders of an international project designed to lead to a breakthrough in the development of drugs for common mental illnesses

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The power of evolution: an old-new race of humans in the mountains of Tibet?

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Great hopes for schizophrenics

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2.1 million dollars were awarded to researchers from the Hebrew University and from the USA for genetic research of schizophrenia

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Bioline R.X has completed the recruitment of patients for phase 2b of the clinical trials for a new drug for the treatment of schizophrenia

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Most of the new drugs for schizophrenia are no more effective than an old, cheap drug

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"The wonders of reason" is not the whole story

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