SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH
March 1st, 2002
BY MATTHEW BRACESCIENTISTS from the Queensland Centre for Schizophrenia Research in Australia claim to have made a crucial step forward in the study of schizophrenia, which could help the pharmaceutical industry develop new vitamin D enriched drugs to treat the condition. Tests on rats at the University of Queensland and Griffith University, in Brisbane, revealed animals born to mothers with a vitamin D deficiency reacted to a sequence of sounds the same way as a human with schizophrenia. They also exhibited enlarged brain ventricles, a feature observed in most ...
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