Scientists: schizophrenia born in the womb

Perhaps a person with schizophrenia born back in the when he is in the womb. This conclusion researchers from the California Salk Institute, who in his work stem cells are used.

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From Schizophrenia   affecting up to 1, 1% of the world's population, and up to 1, 5 million Russians. Despite such widespread it is mental disease, science still knows quite little about its causes. American Researchers have shown that neurons from skin cells of patients schizophrenia   lead strangely in the early stages of what could be a confirmation of the theory of schizophrenia beginning in the womb.

According to the authors of the study, results of which were published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, their discovery could be a good idea to serve in early diagnosis and schizophrenia . This disease affects perception and the patient's emotions, causing hallucinations, dizziness, and other dangerous complications. For example, in 2002 alone, Americans spent $ 63 billion on treatment of schizophrenia . 10% of victims of illness commit suicide because of the inability cope with the disease.

Previously, scientists could examine the brain in schizophrenia only deceased patients, making it difficult to search for its causes, as constant stress, aging processes, use of medicines and drugs It can seriously damage the brain. Using the technology of stem cells, the researchers studied schizophrenia in new ways. They took skin cells of schizophrenics and the beginning They forced them to turn to the earlier level of development of the stem cells, and then into neural progenitor cells are neurons at the early stage.

Observing the development of these cells and their interaction with special surfaces showed that patients with schizophrenia cells exhibit strange activity in the two classes of proteins. In addition, the cells schizophrenics exhibit "aberrant migration" that could lead for subsequent violations of connections in the brain and increase oxidative stress, leading to cell death. (READ MORE)

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