A community of researchers, including the SoCAT lab, analyzed the brain images of 6008 people to get an element of the underlying disorder of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. The study data was published in Biological Psychiatry, one of the world’s leading scientific journals.
According to the evaluations of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia symptoms and their healthy family members, the brains of the health care relatives of patients with bipolar disorder were found to be common. It was observed that some brain regions of health relatives of schizophrenic patients were slightly smaller than the general population. Although bipolar disorder and schizophrenia showed similar patterns in some features, the results revealed that his image in the brain of the two patients was quite different
