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NARSAD-Funded Research Suggests Brain Scans Could Predict Onset of Schizophrenia

January 03, 2011
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation

NARSAD Independent Investigator Andrew McIntosh, in the culmination of 10 years of work, finds that the brains of people who later develop schizophrenia suffer from an accelerated shrinking before the onset of illness.

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