Is schizophrenia the price of human central nervous system complexity?

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-24

  Dean, Brian ^a  

^a FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Frontal lobe; Genome; Homo sapiens; Primates; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FRONTAL LOBE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SYMPTOM;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC MARKERS; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; NEUROGLIA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC LANGUAGE; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 58049116046     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00048670802534416     Document Type: Article

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