Yale University researchers may have found a marker for Schizophrenia, a serious mental illness that affects roughly 1 percent of the population. Brain irregularities that are present in schizophrenic individuals have been studied for some time now, however it was uncertain as to whether these irregularities were a result of the disease or perhaps even a byproduct of medicinal treatment. Recently, Yale researchers found schizophrenia to be linked with significant changes in the connections between the frontal cortex and the thalamus. Furthermore, they found that these changes are present before the onset of schizophrenia. To read the full article click here.
