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A Negative Symptom Of Schizophrenia Is?
Normal Brain Activity Explains Behavior During Psychotic Episodes
The great variety of symptoms in schizophrenia has always made the prediction of a psychotic episode problematic. Scientists from the University of Cambridge have recently announced a method of anticipating the way people might behave during a psychotic episode. The answer lies in tracing the normal brain activity of the individual and then comparing the results of this with brain activity following the administration of Ketamine.
Paul Fletcher, MD, who led the study, used functional magnetic...
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