New Mechanism For Anxiety Disorders Revealed By Mystery Gene

<p>Main Category: Anxiety / Stress
Also Included In: Epilepsy;  Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia;  Genetics
Article Date: 17 May 2012 0:00 PDT</p>

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<p>A novel resource for stress behaviors, including a formerly unrecognized inhibitory mind signal, competence enthuse new strategies for treating psychiatric disorders, University of Chicago researchers report.</p>

<p>By contrast a argumentative purpose of a gene called Glo1 in anxiety, scientists unclosed a new inhibitory cause in a brain: a metabolic by-product methylglyoxal. The complement offers a delicious new aim for drugs designed to yield conditions such as stress disorder, epilepsy, and nap disorders.</p>

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The study, published in a Journal of Clinical Investigation, found that animals with mixed copies of a Glo1 gene were some-more expec...