(Medical Xpress) -- New NeuRA research shows that the brains of
people with schizophrenia may attempt to repair damage caused by
the disease, in another example of the adult brains capacity to
change and grow. Prof. Cyndi Shannon Weickert, Dr. Dipesh Joshi
and colleagues from Neuroscience Research Australia studied the
brains of people with schizophrenia and focussed on one of the
hardest-hit regions, the orbitofrontal cortex, which is the part
of the brain involved in regulating emotional and social
behaviour. Most neurons brain cells that transmit information
are found in tissue near the surface of the brain. However, in
the brains of people with schizophrenia, the team found a high
density of neurons in deeper areas. For over a decade weve known
about the high density of neurons in deeper brain tissue in
people with schizophrenia. Researchers thought these neurons
were simply forgotten by the brain, and somehow didnt die off
like they do during development in healthy people, says Prof.
Shannon Weickert. Wh