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'Biggest ever' study of its kind may advance the treatment, diagnosis and prevention of Schizophrenia
August 12, 2004Scientists at the Babraham Institute have made significant advances in understanding schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a mental illness which has been estimated to affect over 1% of the population and costs the NHS over £2.5 billion per year. Babraham scientists have pinpointed a breakdown in mitochondria - the power stations of the cell - as a key factor.
The discovery, described in an article published in Molecular Psychiatry, was made by a team of scientists working in Dr Sabine Bahn's research group at the Babraham Institute, Cambridge. The large-scale, multi-disciplinary approach has identified differences in the expression of genes related to energy production between schizophrenia patients and unaffected people.
The team studied tissue from over 100 brains and screened over 22,000 genes. Dr Bahn comments: "This study is the most extensive study of its kind so far, and we believe its multi-tier, complementary approach has provided surprising and convincing data. We hope that our findings will lead to advances in treatment, diagnosis and hopefully prevention of schizophrenia and related illnesses."
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