Using a new kind of MRI measurement, neuroscientists reported higher levels of oxidative stress in patients with schizophrenia, when compared both to healthy individuals and those with bipolar disorder.
“Intensive energy demands on brain cells leads to accumulation of highly reactive oxygen species, such as free radicals and hydrogen peroxide,” according to the study’s lead investigator, Dr. Fei Du, an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. In schizophrenia, excessive oxidation - which involves the same type of chemical reaction that causes metal to corrode into rust - is widely thought to cause inflammation and cellular damage. However, measuring this process in the living human brain has remained challenging.
Du and colleagues at McLean Hospital measured oxidative stress using a novel magnetic resonance spectroscopy technique. This technique uses MRI scanners to non-invasively measure brain concentrations of two molecules, NAD+ and NADH, that give a readout of how well the brain is able to buffer out excessive oxidants.
They only now are able to look in to the brains …so we are far far from cure…!!! @Andrey wass up…i send same mail to micheal bloomberg organization he’s also a Philanthropist…!!!
This condition is just negative all around isnt it. I can’t think of a report on sz i have ever heard which said we benefit in any way, everything just sucks. It makes you dumb, emotionless, shortens your life and robs you of your humanity.
Oil in the affected joints?? Beginning to work with what brain you have. They think that by using the brain consistently one can begin to open more pathways in there.
