NEW YORK – A team of Columbia scientists has found that disruptions to the brain’s center for spatial navigation – its internal GPS – result in some of the severe memory deficits seen in schizophrenia. The new study in mouse models of the disorder marks the first time that schizophrenia’s effects have been observed in the behavior of living animals – and at the level of individual brain cells – with such high-resolution, precision and clarity. The findings offer a promising entry point for attacking a near-universal and debilitating symptom of schizophrenia, memory deficits, which has thus far withstood all forms of treatment.
i’m not saying this research is wrong, or that there’s isn’t a ‘chemical approach’ to the problem and solution of memory deficits. but i have my own theory as to why my memory is bad, which is quite simple, but maybe it’s different for other people. for me it’s simply that there are too many racing thoughts coming and going, and there’s no ‘space’ for memories to ‘pop up’ from the subconscious or wherever they come from. my mind is too occupied with racing/intrusive thoughts. just my theory, make of it what you will.
