Global, Collaborative Approach Advances Quest for Better Treatments of Mental Illness

BALTIMORE, Dec. 29, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Lieber Institute for Brain Development announces significant advances in identifying the causes of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders and translating these findings into new treatment strategies: CRACKING THE CODE OF BRAIN DEVELOPMENT: Two papers published by the LIBD research team report progress identifying specific biological signatures that guide early brain development and can ultimately lead to neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia. The teams investigated whether prenatal expression of psychiatric disease-associated genes may be responsible for 'kick starting' atypical brain development.

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