Smoking, schizophrenia linked by alterations in brain nicotine signals
Schizophrenia is associated with increased rates and intensity of tobacco smoking. A growing body of research suggests that the relationship between schizophrenia and smoking stems, in part, from an effort by patients to use nicotine to self-medicate symptoms and cognitive impairment associated with the disease.
Uh huh.
"This finding adds to evidence that brain nicotine-related signaling
might play a role for new medications developed to treat schizophrenia."
Ummm, what about
nicotine- since it's so effective? Like Ecigs? That is the obvious direction this conversation should have gone. Oh, that goes against all your "health directives" and is not patentable... I see...
