Emerging evidence suggests that biomarkers found through a simple blood test may one day help predict psychotic disorders.
A number of blood gene expression biomarkers have been found to correlate with schizophrenia.unit flipping through a pamphlet I had been given to read on schizophrenia. To my knowledge, I had not been diagnosed with schizophrenia, but I had received a barrage of other changing diagnoses in a short period, including a few involving, an experience common in schizophrenia. I wasn't sure those treating me knew what was going on with me any more than I did.
The staff thought this would be helpful for me to read. But the brochure and the idea of the illness scared me. I didn't fully understand. I flipped to a page on diagnosing schizophrenia and read that there was no blood test for it. Of course not. How would they measure a mental health condition in someone's blood? My own experiences at that point had shown that EEGs, an MRI, psychological assessment, and multiple psychiatric examinations have led to a string of changing and conflicting diagnostic impressions. An objective test at that time would have been so appreciated.Twenty years later, last week, I spotted an article in U.
Many of these genetic biomarkers are believed to affect dynamics involving a specific neurotransmitter, glutamate. Except for its role in one antipsychotic, Clozapine, glutamate has only recently become a target of psychiatric intervention with most anti-psychotic medications involving antagonism of another neurotransmitter,, and general brain function. It is also thought to play a role in neuroplasticity, or the forming of new connections within the brain.
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