Changes in negative symptoms are linked to white matter changes in superior longitudinal fasciculus in individuals at ultra-high risk for psychosis

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I hope its not permanent brain damage.

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God, I’m too tired to read through anymore scientific articles. Anyone want to summarize?
Does it just basically say we are all screwed?

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It doesn’t say that - they just found that there was higher fractional anisotropy in the right superior longitudinal fasciculus over time in the group with increased negative symptoms. I don’t know much about it but google says increased fractional anisotropy indicates higher mylenation and a lower degree of neural branching.

If they’re able to understand a neural basis for the symptoms, that would mean better possibilties to treat the actual underlying cause.

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