Richard W Morris

..in people with schizophrenia have begun to shed light on the answers to four important questions: What is the major component of the deficit? Does it have a neurobiological basis? When does it appear in development? Can it be remediated?..

..Thus, puberty involves significant increases in sex hormones, which in turn may modulate subcortical dopamine synthesis and affect cognitive functions impaired in psychiatric illnesses such as schizophrenia...