{"id":242522,"date":"2026-08-11T05:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T10:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/schizophrenias-brain-damage-may-start-in-one-key-region"},"modified":"2026-08-11T05:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T10:27:07","slug":"schizophrenias-brain-damage-may-start-in-one-key-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/schizophrenias-brain-damage-may-start-in-one-key-region","title":{"rendered":"Schizophrenia\u2019s Brain Damage May Start in One Key Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/schizophrenias-brain-damage-may-start-in-one-key-region2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Schizophrenia may leave a distinctive biological footprint across the brain\u2019s communication network.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Using specialized PET imaging, researchers have mapped where synaptic connections are most reduced in people with schizophrenia and identified a possible region from which the damage begins to spread.<\/p>\n<p>The study, which involved a <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/rutgers-university\/\">Rutgers<\/a> professor, was published in <em><i>Molecular Psychiatry<\/i><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schizophrenia may leave a distinctive biological footprint across the brain\u2019s communication network. Using specialized PET imaging, researchers have mapped where synaptic connections are most reduced in people with schizophrenia and identified a possible region from which the damage begins to spread. The study, which involved a Rutgers professor, was published in Molecular Psychiatry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242522","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=242522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}