Watch this facinating series these time-lapse animations, compiled from brain scans taken over many years, neurologist Paul Thompson of the University of California, Los Angeles, describes brain maturation in children with and without schizophrenia. Move the slider beneath the image to see the changes over time.
Read Benedict Carey’s article From the Elusiveness of Schizophrenia, New Clues to Treatment Published June 13, 2008 in the New York Times
The people who suffer from schizophrenia are hardly the only ones confounded by its symptoms. Scientists are baffled, too, and despite years of study they’ve had little success in explaining how the disorder develops, in whom, and why.
Yet there’s a restless energy among psychiatric researchers now, and it’s in part because of several recent studies that, paradoxically, reveal how insufficient current theories about schizophrenia are.
Source: New York Times
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