{"id":95065,"date":"2019-08-21T11:23:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T18:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/key-player-identified-in-genetic-link-to-psychiatric-conditions"},"modified":"2019-08-21T11:23:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T18:23:03","slug":"key-player-identified-in-genetic-link-to-psychiatric-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/key-player-identified-in-genetic-link-to-psychiatric-conditions","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Key player\u2019 identified in genetic link to psychiatric conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/key-player-identified-in-genetic-link-to-psychiatric-conditions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have identified a specific gene they believe could be a key player in the changes in brain structure seen in several psychiatric conditions, such as schizophrenia and autism.<\/p>\n<p>The team from Cardiff University\u2019s Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute has found that the deletion of the gene CYFIP1 leads to thinning of the insulation that covers <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/nerve+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nerve cells<\/a> and is vital for the smooth and rapid communications between different parts of the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new findings, published in the journal <i>Nature Communications<\/i> and highlighted in the journal <i>Nature Reviews Neuroscience<\/i>, throws new light on the potential cause of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/psychiatric+conditions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">psychiatric conditions<\/a> and could ultimately point to new and more effective therapies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have identified a specific gene they believe could be a key player in the changes in brain structure seen in several psychiatric conditions, such as schizophrenia and autism. The team from Cardiff University\u2019s Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute has found that the deletion of the gene CYFIP1 leads to thinning of the insulation [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95065","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}