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No blind schizophrenics: Are NMDA-receptor dynamics involved?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2003

Glenn S. Sanders
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY 12222 gallup@csc.albany.edu http://www.albany.edu/~gallup http://www.evolutionarypsych.com
Steven M. Platek
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19102 steven.m.platek@drexel.edu http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~smp43
Gordon G. Gallup Jr.
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY 12222 gallup@csc.albany.edu http://www.albany.edu/~gallup http://www.evolutionarypsych.com
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Numerous searches have failed to identify a single co-occurrence of total blindness and schizophrenia. Evidence that blindness causes loss of certain NMDA-receptor functions is balanced by reports of compensatory gains. Connections between visual and anterior cingulate NMDA-receptor systems may help to explain how blindness could protect against schizophrenia.

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