March 28, 2012
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Scientists from the universities of Cologne and Zurich have shown that healthy people, but having
genome
Which is responsible for
schizophrenia
Being smokers react to information they have overheard the same way as people with schizophrenia. Thus, smoking may increase the potential occurrence of schizophrenia in individuals with the gene.
Mentally healthy people who have a gene TCF4, have irregular filtering of acoustic pulses. A similar process is smoking contributes directly.
Boris Quendi, Professor of Psychiatric Hospital in Zurich organized a test, which was attended by 1,800 people exposed to acoustic tests. Subjects listened to a sequence of similar sounds. In decoding electroencephalogram It was shown that the set of non-smokers unconsciously suppress other sounds in the processing of the signal. This situation is normal for a healthy person, whereas this filtering schizophrenics is missing and there is an overflow of information of their brain.
The researchers believe that smoking should be attributed to the risk factors with respect to schizophrenia in people who are carriers of the gene responsible for the disease.