The brain of schizophrenia patients attempts to repair itself

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Schizophrenic’s brain in images
MRI joined with analysis of covariance, allowed the research team to note subtle but significant increases in brain tissue, something that has not been noticed in affected patients’ brains up to this point.

Schizophrenia is a degenerative disease, where the damage grows as time goes on, making it almost impossible to achieve a reversal in the brain’s worsening condition. But this study shows that the brain seems to work towards recovering from the disease, providing leads to the idea of reversing the internal damage the brain has suffered, including the severe reduction of cognitive and functional detriment that the brain has undergone due to schizophrenia.

Researchers argue that the findings may pave the way towards developing treatments that are set to improve the pathology related to schizophrenia, as degenerative diseases can be treated in one way or another. Schizophrenia is being understood now more than ever. The team now expects to investigate exactly how the recovery process develops on patients within the early stages of schizophrenia.

Participants showed an increased amount of gray matter the longer they had the degenerative condition. The imaging also showed that, no matter how damaged the brain is due to schizophrenia, it always tries to repair itself and to limit the damages caused by the disease. The research showed how the brain is capable of undergoing self-repairs, which will pave the way towards the development of similarly induced techniques.