Summer research in Associate Professor of Neuroscience Tracie Paine’s lab is aimed at understanding the neurobiological changes that underlie the complex, less commonly recognized symptoms of schizophrenia.
May 2015 graduate Daniel Lowes and second-year student Gabriel Hitchcock are working on models to determine whether changes in the GABA neurotransmitter system, a chemical messenger that regulates anxiety, can cause schizophrenia-like changes.
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