{"id":201582,"date":"2024-12-14T03:11:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T09:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/scientists-discover-genetic-changes-linked-to-autism-schizophrenia"},"modified":"2024-12-14T03:11:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T09:11:16","slug":"scientists-discover-genetic-changes-linked-to-autism-schizophrenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/scientists-discover-genetic-changes-linked-to-autism-schizophrenia","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover Genetic Changes Linked to Autism, Schizophrenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-genetic-changes-linked-to-autism-schizophrenia.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Tbx1 gene influences brain volume and social behavior in autism and schizophrenia, with its deficiency linked to amygdala shrinkage and impaired social incentive evaluation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A study published in <em><i>Molecular Psychiatry<\/i><\/em> has linked changes in brain volume to differences in social behavior associated with psychiatric conditions like autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia.<\/p>\n<p>The research, led by Noboru Hiroi, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-texas-at-san-antonio\/\">Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio)<\/a>, revealed that a deficiency in a specific gene was connected to social behavior differences in mice. These behavioral differences are similar to those often observed in psychiatric disorders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tbx1 gene influences brain volume and social behavior in autism and schizophrenia, with its deficiency linked to amygdala shrinkage and impaired social incentive evaluation. A study published in Molecular Psychiatry has linked changes in brain volume to differences in social behavior associated with psychiatric conditions like autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia. The research, led [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201582","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}