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SUBMITTER: Hong J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7006977 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Clinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology 20200201 1
Schizophrenia is a debilitating psychiatric disorder with a substantial socioeconomic and humanistic burden. Currently available treatment strategies mostly rely on antipsychotic drugs, which block dopaminergic effects in the mesolimbic pathway of the brain. Although antipsychotic drugs help relieve psychotic symptoms, a definitive cure for schizophrenia has yet to be achieved. Recent advances in neuroinflammation research suggest that proinflammatory processes in the brain could cause alteratio ...[more]