{"id":182897,"date":"2024-02-17T01:32:12","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T07:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/breakthrough-new-blood-test-predicts-schizophrenia-risk"},"modified":"2024-02-17T01:32:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T07:32:12","slug":"breakthrough-new-blood-test-predicts-schizophrenia-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/breakthrough-new-blood-test-predicts-schizophrenia-risk","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough: New Blood Test Predicts Schizophrenia Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breakthrough-new-blood-test-predicts-schizophrenia-risk2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-case-of-schizophrenia-found-to-be-a-bad-case-of-cat-scratch-disease\">Diagnosing schizophrenia<\/a> as early as possible helps minimize the toll the neurological disorder takes on the body and the mind. Unfortunately the condition\u2019s signs can be difficult to spot in the early stages.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why researchers led by a team from the Indiana University School of Medicine have developed a test which offers a relatively simple and reliable way to check for current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/schizophrenia\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">schizophrenia<\/a> severity and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-identify-new-schizophrenia-risk-genes-in-first-of-its-kind-study\">future risk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPsychosis usually manifests in young adulthood \u2013 a prime period of life,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.iu.edu\/news\/2024\/02\/psychosis-blood-test\">says<\/a> neuroscientist Alexander Niculescu from the Indiana University School of Medicine. \u201cStress and drugs, including marijuana, are precipitating factors on a background of genetic vulnerability.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diagnosing schizophrenia as early as possible helps minimize the toll the neurological disorder takes on the body and the mind. Unfortunately the condition\u2019s signs can be difficult to spot in the early stages. That\u2019s why researchers led by a team from the Indiana University School of Medicine have developed a test which offers a relatively [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}