King's (College) makes a possible schizophrenia treatment breakthrough

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Great find @everhopeful! The article distinguishes between treatment-resistant SCZ and other SCZ’s. A difference of " abnormal glutamate function."

It makes me think of all those small glutamate-based studies which showed promise. A lot of the treatments were later thought to be failures when tested in larger populations. Maybe a lot of glutamate-based treatments worked on treatment-resistant SCZ but failed in larger (more inclusive) SCZ populations. If so it would be time to revisit all those treatments.

Hopefully, any glutamate-based treatments which improve cognitive flexibility can help other mental illnesses too. Illnesses where the mind gets fixated, like OCD and perhaps even PTSD.

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Thank you, it’s very interesting! Is there a link to the scientific publication in a journal? I can’t seem to find one.

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It says

Cognitive control network connectivity differentially disrupted in treatment resistant schizophrenia was published 30th March in Neuroimage: Clinical

Maybe you can use google to track it down?

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Thank you! I’m multitasking and thus failed to notice this sentence. I’ll google it down.

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