The work of researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine may be the solution to a long-term serious problems in the field of psychiatry as a diagnosis "schizophrenia". Scientists have developed a test that detects the risk of the disease in humans, located in schizophrenia and are often unaware of this.
The search for methods to diagnose schizophrenia per se, undertaken by psychiatrists in the past one hundred and fifty years. As an individual disease and, at the same time revealing similar symptoms with other mental pathologies, this disease was and remains a "hard nut to crack" for the specialists - schizophrenia often written off a little clear cases of mental disorders.
According to a leading specialist Alexander Nikalesku School of Medicine, the research team created its genetic test can identify quite accurately propensity to schizophrenia (if present in humans).
According to reports, schizophrenia develops due to a certain set of genetic variations that have an impact on brain development. Exacerbate this process by environmental factors and stress, which is experiencing the body. When a match is once all the conditions a person may appear paranoia, hallucinations, and disrupt thinking, evidence of the beginning of the disease.
According Nikalesku, currently at the disposal of scientists there is a fairly comprehensive list of genes associated with schizophrenia. New genetic test shows whether the "schizophrenic genes" that a patient. This method for determining the predisposition to the disease was tested on four different groups of people and made more than effective results (were found two people of the three possible). Researchers believe that such testing may be particularly useful for the detection of schizophrenia among those children whose relatives were among the people who already suffer from this disease. However, scientists believe that the presence of the genes can not predetermine the fate of man. The test lets you know if there is a propensity to schizophrenia But whether it will evolve over time, eventually becoming a disease - depends on the individual.
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