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A single injection fixed schizophrenia-related brain problems in mice with no side effects

Ellsworth Toohey
Mar 24, 2026
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Mouse (Rudmer Zwerver/shutterstock.com)

Current schizophrenia drugs can quiet hallucinations and delusions, but the cognitive symptoms (disorganized thinking, memory problems, executive dysfunction) stay untreated. Those are the ones that make everyday life brutal for roughly two million Americans with the disorder. A team at Northwestern may have found …

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