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SUBMITTER: Lee H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3437240 | biostudies-other | 2012 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Lee Heekyung H Dvorak Dino D Kao Hsin-Yi HY Duffy Áine M ÁM Scharfman Helen E HE Fenton André A AA
Neuron 20120801 4
Brain abnormalities acquired early in life may cause schizophrenia, characterized by adulthood onset of psychosis, affective flattening, and cognitive impairments. Cognitive symptoms, like impaired cognitive control, are now recognized to be important treatment targets but cognition-promoting treatments are ineffective. We hypothesized that cognitive training during the adolescent period of neuroplastic development can tune compromised neural circuits to develop in the service of adult cognition ...[more]