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illustration of Schizophrenia's effect on the brain; taken from here

  • Source: Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, M.D., Ph.D., NIMH Clinical Brain Disorders Branch on the tree of life.

While patients performed a working memory task, the less the prefrontal cortex (red) activated, the more dopamine increased in the striatum (green).

Abstract of study is here.

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