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Doctors get first view of devastating disease

October 26, 2004

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Almost a century ago, scientists proposed that schizophrenia could be caused by disrupted brain connections, but only now are imaging technologies allowing scientists to find physical evidence linking schizoprehnic patients' symptoms to thin neural webs. The images of 14 patients' brains showed unusually small bundles of nerve fibers in two different networks, and appeared to be connected with their disrupted ... (Full article: 177 words)

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