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Join Date: Sep 2006
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Legendary
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 10,984
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Australian Story - "All In Your Mind"
http://www.abc.net.au/austory/
Full Programme in INDEX
11/05/2009
Quote:
Professor Cyndi Shannon Weickert once dreamed of being a famous chef until her twin brother Scott Shannon was diagnosed with schizophrenia in his teens.
After witnessing the devastating symptoms of delusions and hallucinations first-hand in the person she loved the most, Cyndi Shannon Weikert embarked on a life mission to find a cure.
Now a world-leading neurobiologist, she moved from America to Australia when she was invited to lead a top schizophrenia research program in Sydney two years ago.
The team has since discovered that mutations in a particular estrogen gene are linked to schizophrenia. Clinical drug trials on a drug to regulate brain estrogen will start in July.
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