Folding Forum

im currently crunching with a 570 gtx gpugrid* and was thinking of switching over because off all the neuro diseases that you cover, i was hoping tho that schizophrenia was one of them even if it was down the list somewhere.

Disclaimer: I'm not associated with Pande Group or Stanford in any way other than being a dedicated Folder. I am not a scientist and did not have a heavy emphasis in chemistry or biology in college.

It's my understanding the the primary disease class that Folding@Home's research hopes to address is degenerative tissue diseases. I don't think schizophrenia's underlying causes (of which there is much debate) is tissue degeneration, is it?

no one knows cause but there is brain degeneration, wow i feel stupid, but yea brain gets smaller older ya get from what i understand.

You might want to check out these articles/abstracts. I am not associated with Pande labs, nor have I any special medical training. These are the results of some top-level web searching, so take them for what they are. One can find many more potential results in such a search.

Schizophrenia Neural Processes

Schizophrenia Susceptibility Genes Directly Implicated in the Life Cycles of Pathogens: Cytomegalovirus, Influenza, Herpes simplex, Rubella, and Toxoplasma gondii

Antipsychotic drug use is correlated with CRP40/mortalin mRNA expression in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of human postmortem brain specimens