By ALLESSANDRA DiCORATO – Broad Institute and Harvard Medical School –
Brain tissue samples from people with schizophrenia and from older adults have strikingly similar sets of changes in gene activity in two types of brain cells, suggesting a common biological basis for the cognitive impairment often seen in people with schizophrenia and in older people, according to new research.
The findings — published March 6 in Nature and led by researchers at Harvard Medical School, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and McLean Hospital — point to new strategies for treating cognitive impairment.
