Schizophrenia
Aug 11 2008, Abhijit

Research published recently in BioMed Central’s open access journal ‘Genome Biology’ suggests that schizophrenia is a costly by-product of human brain evolution. Our brain consumes enormous energy as the increased demand in metabolic capacity and the...

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