Scientists have long speculated that schizophrenia, which affects about 1 in every 100 adults worldwide, originates in part in the hippocampus, the brain’s headquarters for memory and spatial navigation. As a result, nearly every region of the hippocampus has been studied extensively in the hopes of gaining insight into the disorder. However, one notable exception is a tiny region of the hippocampus known as CA2.  … Continue reading Schizophrenia linked to loss of cells in brain’s memory centre for the first time.