These findings are exciting because they provide clues to the biological basis of this devastating disorder – clues that may ultimately help us to develop better treatments. However, attempts to understand how genes contribute to the symptoms that patients experience reveal how complex – and poorly understood – the human brain is.
Read the full article on The Conversation website, written by Elizabeth Tunbridge, Department of Psychiatry.
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