Abnormal Brain Waves Linked to Schizophrenia

Breakdown of organised thoughts, delusions and hallucinations are common in Schizophrenia patients. For the first time, MIT neuroscientists have observed the neural activity that appears to produce this disordered thinking. The researchers found that mice lacking the brain protein calcineurin have hyperactive brain-wave oscillations in the hippocampus while resting, and are unable to mentally replay a route they have just run, as normal mice do. Mutations ...