The drug fasudil is found to reverse key symptoms of schizophrenia in mice

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There’s more on that here

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Sorry I didn’t know you posted about this already.

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No, that’s ok, I just thought I’d add some extra information.

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Can it be proven a mouse can have sz?

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You make a good point. There’s an old saying that “cancer has been cured 100 times over.” It’s a saying because 100’s of treatments for cancer have worked to cure cancer but in mice. The vast majority of them don’t go on to work on humans.

Similarly, mice can be “cured” of symptoms that resemble SCZ but we won’t know if works in humans until it’s trialed in humans . . .

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So now the mice have schizophrenia, but they’re doing it backwards?

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Bing AI, Mice do not have schizophrenia or any other mental illness. The human brain is quite different from the mouse brain in many ways, which precludes us from re-creating a mental illness in its totality in mice. Nonetheless, mice (and other species) can help us understand and develop treatments for schizophrenia, anxiety, and other mental illnesses².

Must be nice to be mice.

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Not a clinical mice :rat: :rat:

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I wonder what causes schizophrenia in mice?

Traumatic childhoods.

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You never know it might contribute, if the mice baby is Seperated from it’s mother mouse.

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I just want these negative symptoms gone. I miss my pre medication self

But ofcourse, the medication is necessary according to the pdoc. Who is experienced

Poor mice

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