John Kenny, MD examines the results of a new study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP) that tests treatments for 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. In this study, researchers supplied choline to pregnant mothers to see if the development of cerebral inhibition improved in the child.

Watch The Doctor’s Channel video to see what Dr. Kenny has to say about the AJP study and his ideas on schizophrenia.

“Schizophrenia is such a wide illness with such a wide range of symptoms and causes such a wide range of impairments, that it’s bound to be multifactorial, it’s bound to be polygenetic.” – Dr. John Kenny

Dr. Kenny is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. He is co-author of Psychiatry Test Preparation and Review Manual, 2nd Edition.

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