John Kenny, MD, Assistant Professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, co-author of Psychiatry Test Preparation and Review Manual (Elsevier 2013), delves into a new study (published in the American Journal of Psychiatry) that looks to treat schizophrenia in utero. Dr. Kenny talks about neonatal pathophysiology related to schizophrenia, which includes a deficiency in cerebral inhibition and an over-activation of certain sensory neural pathways linked with genetic abnormalities. The trial looked to correct for these abnormalities by supplying dietary choline supplementation to pregnant mothers, with hopes that the additional choline would lead to improved development of cerebral inhibition in the child.

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